Coverage that lands in the right rooms — and the right timelines.
A public relations practice built for the way the Kingdom's media actually works: bilingual desks, government-relations depth, direct lines to the newsrooms that move the story, and executive-positioning work that carries beyond the launch cycle. Not a press-release factory — a communications partner that owns the outcome.
Enterprises the Darb network already communicates for
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The full public-relations stack.
Communications work runs on six connected workstreams. Every engagement pulls the mix each brand actually needs — not a fixed retainer built to bill hours, but a plan built to move a specific outcome.
Media relations
Arabic and English newsroom outreach across Saudi print, digital, business, and sector-specialist outlets. The relationships are direct — pitches land with named editors, not a generic inbox.
- Newsroom mapping and pitch strategy
- Bilingual press releases + Arabic-first news copy
- Journalist briefings and executive interviews
- Op-ed placement in Saudi and regional titles
Corporate communications
Internal and external narrative work that keeps the brand's voice coherent across every audience — employees, partners, regulators, media, and the public.
- Corporate messaging houses and narrative playbooks
- Annual-report and sustainability-report editorial
- Board and shareholder communications support
- Internal comms rollout for change, restructures, and launches
Executive positioning
Founder, C-suite and board thought leadership built to compound — bylines, keynote decks, LinkedIn cadence, and interview prep that raise a leader's voice across the Saudi conversation.
- Thought-leadership platform and quarterly editorial calendar
- Keynote development and speaker-invite pursuits
- LinkedIn writing (executive voice, Arabic + English)
- Media training and interview preparation
Launch and campaign PR
End-to-end PR pushes around product launches, capital raises, milestone announcements, and campaign moments. Scheduled to break in the right week and land across the right outlets in one wave.
- Launch narrative, embargoes, and press kits
- Exclusive placement strategy with tier-1 outlets
- Editorial calendar synced to product / paid marketing
- Post-launch amplification with earned + owned channels
Crisis and issues management
Preparedness and rapid response for reputational incidents. A named crisis lead, pre-drafted holding statements, stakeholder-mapping, and 24-hour desk that stays on the story until closure.
- Crisis playbooks and holding-statement library
- Scenario simulations for the C-suite
- 24-hour incident response and press desk
- Post-incident reputation recovery plan
Government relations and public affairs
A communications lens on the regulatory landscape — narrative that lands cleanly with ministries, regulators, and Vision-2030 programme offices, and reads on-brief to the public.
- Stakeholder mapping across government and regulators
- Public consultation and position-paper drafting
- Vision-2030 alignment audit for corporate narrative
- Ministry briefings and event-visibility strategy
A PR partner that owns the outcome.
Most retainers bill hours, ship press releases, and hope the coverage lands. Our engagements are structured around the outcomes the brand hired us to move: share of voice, sentiment, executive share of conversation, and the specific reputational metric that matters this quarter.
Arabic newsroom fluency
Every press asset is drafted natively in Arabic, then adapted to English — not the other way round. Coverage in Al Eqtisadiah, Al Riyadh, Argaam, Asharq and the sector-specialist Arabic media reads like it belongs there.
Direct newsroom lines
The Kingdom's business-desk editors, sector reporters, and Vision-2030 correspondents are on named contact lists — not agency-shared media databases that get spammed and ignored.
In-market, on the ground
The desk sits in Riyadh, attends the briefings, and reads the news the way the Kingdom's audiences do. That in-market reflex is why the story lands on the right day, not the day after.
Owned + earned integrated
PR runs alongside owned channels — LinkedIn, corporate site, executive content, video production if needed — so every earned mention has a place to convert. One narrative, every surface.
Weekly outcome reporting
You get a weekly report with placements, sentiment, share of voice against a defined competitor set, and next-week priorities. No slide-ware. No monthly-with-plenty-of-charts. Numbers that support a decision.
Programmes, not fire drills
Long-view engagements built as programmes with quarterly outcomes, not month-to-month tactical scrambles that never build compounding equity in the brand.
Where the Saudi PR desk runs strongest.
The strongest work sits in sectors where narrative is regulated, reputation compounds slowly, and one line in the wrong outlet costs six months of trust. That's where the desk earns its retainer.
Fintech and financial services
SAMA-regulated announcements, capital raises, licensing milestones, sector interviews.
Energy and industrial
Sustainability narrative, ESG-report editorial, sector-conference visibility, Vision-2030 alignment.
Real estate and giga-projects
Milestone launches, master-plan reveals, partnership announcements, executive positioning across regional and international press.
Technology and SaaS
Product launches, funding rounds, category-creation narratives, founder thought leadership.
Healthcare and pharma
Regulated communications, clinical-milestone coverage, executive interviews, awareness campaigns.
Retail, F&B and hospitality
Store openings, campaign launches, seasonal moments, and influencer / KOL programmes.
Government and semi-government
Programme announcements, public-affairs narrative, stakeholder engagement, and Vision-2030 milestone comms.
Entertainment and events
Season launches, activation coverage, talent visibility, and cross-media campaign amplification.
A programme, delivered in six clean steps.
Every engagement runs on the same operating rhythm — different intensity for different objectives, same discipline throughout.
Discovery and audit
Two-week onboarding — brand, competitor set, historical coverage, sentiment baseline, and the outcome that defines success this quarter.
Narrative and messaging house
One master narrative with sub-messages by audience — regulators, media, employees, customers. Signed off by the C-suite before anything ships.
Editorial calendar
Quarterly calendar aligning news moments, thought-leadership drops, industry moments and pre-planned earned pushes.
Newsroom activation
Direct pitching to named editors and reporters, exclusive strategy where warranted, and weekly cadence of Arabic and English placements.
Reporting and share-of-voice tracking
Weekly numbers on placements, sentiment, share of voice vs. defined competitors, and next-week priorities. Monthly executive summary for the board.
Programme review and next-quarter plan
Quarter-end review against the outcome that was defined at kickoff. Next-quarter plan agreed before the current one closes.
PR-desk questions.
Do you write in Arabic natively, or translate from English?
Natively in Arabic — that's the default. Every press release, op-ed and messaging document is written for the Arabic reader first, then adapted to English. Translated-feel copy gets flagged and rewritten before it ships.
Which Saudi outlets do you place in most?
The main business desks (Al Eqtisadiah, Argaam, Asharq Business), the general-news top-tier (Al Riyadh, Okaz, Al Watan), the English-language circuit (Arab News, Saudi Gazette), and sector-specialist Arabic media depending on the story. Pitches are per-outlet, per-reporter — no bulk mailouts.
Do you handle crisis PR outside business hours?
Yes. Crisis engagements include a 24-hour on-call desk with a named lead. Holding statements and stakeholder-briefing templates are pre-drafted during onboarding so the first hour is execution, not drafting.
How is success measured?
Against outcomes defined at kickoff — share of voice against a specified competitor set, sentiment shift on the messages that matter, executive share of conversation on named topics, and the reputational or commercial metric the engagement was structured to move.
Do you work with founders and C-suite directly on their personal profile?
Yes. Executive positioning is a distinct workstream — thought-leadership platform, keynote development, LinkedIn writing in the executive's voice, and interview prep. Runs quarterly, compounds over 12 months.
Do you integrate with paid marketing and content teams?
Standard. The strongest earned coverage lands next to owned content and paid amplification. Our editorial calendar syncs with product, marketing, and content teams so a milestone lands as one integrated moment, not three uncoordinated pushes.
How long is a typical engagement?
Retained programmes start at three months for launch pushes and six-to-twelve months for reputation programmes. Standalone project work is available for one-off launches, IPOs, or crisis mandates.
Do you work outside Riyadh?
Yes. The desk is Riyadh-based but the coverage is Kingdom-wide, and we field campaigns across the GCC when a Saudi brand is expanding regionally.
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Ready to brief the PR desk?
Send a two-line brief — brand, sector, and the outcome you want to move this quarter. The desk replies within a business day with a first-cut narrative and a scoping call.