About

Everyone remembers the scene: a family on a rooftop, a car in a parking garage, an iftar table. Nobody remembers the brand, the director or the year. Search engines want exactly those. Creatives, agencies and brands lose hours hunting for a reference they can picture but cannot name. Egyptian Ad Archive starts from the scene. Type what happened on screen and the ad comes back with its brand and year.

What it is

Egyptian Ad Archive is a search index of Egyptian commercials, scene by scene. 11,400+ ads, updated every week.

Search by what happens on screen, in Arabic or English.
Films are broken into scene tags, so a search finds the moment, not just the title.
A result opens at the exact second the scene starts.

What it is not

Not a video host. Nothing is copied, downloaded or re-hosted. Every film plays from the owner's upload, on their public YouTube or Vimeo.
Not a licence. The films, brands and music belong to their owners. Finding a film here gives no right to reuse it.
If a film is removed from YouTube or Vimeo, it stops playing here too.

What a subscription pays for

The search, the scene index, boards and PDF decks. The work of finding, tagging and keeping it current, every week. Not the films: those stay free on their owners' channels.

Brands, agencies and rights holders: see For brands, agencies and rights holders.

Who is behind it

It started with Ahmed Farag, a creative in Cairo with 10+ years on advertising campaigns across Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Years of hunting for references turned into this search. Then a crew joined, and together they keep it growing every week.

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