zaid dabus

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founder

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zaid dabus * founder *

zaid dabus

zaid dabus

founder

  • marketing strategy

  • brand positioning

  • digital advertising

Zaid Dabus is the founder of @Internet Friends, the anti-agency for brands that want strategy that actually works.

tampa bay business journal 25 under 2025. 31x award-winning marketing strategist. Ex-agency operator. $38M+ in ad spend placed. 55+ brands advised.

Zaid’s not here to babysit your Instagram. He builds positioning, taste, and full-stack growth systems that make brands louder, sharper, and harder to ignore.

Zaid founded Internet Friends out of frustration with bloated agencies, bad strategy, and clients stuck in the content hamster wheel. he flipped the model: a lean, lethal collective built to solve business problems, not just deliver “creative.”

More consultant than marketer. More operator than influencer. All execution.

Whether he’s mentoring rising marketers or launching multi-platform campaigns, his goal stays the same: make noise, get results, and do it better than the big guys.

Awards & Recognitions

  • silver telly award winner for his work on a fintech & personal finance tv campaign.

  • Tampa Bay Business Journal

  • 2024, events & experiential marketing.

  • 2023, personal finance.

  • 2023, new product launch

  • Gramercy Insstitute, Jan 2023

  • Jan 2023

  • US Social Media Awards, Jan 2020

  • US Social Media Awards, Jan 2020

  • Feb 2015

  • Official Selection Nassau Film Festival

    Official Selection of the 2016 Las Vegas Galaxy Film Awards

    Official Selection of the 2015 Trinity International Film Festival

    Official Selection of the 2015 Rahway International Film Festival

    Official Selection of the 2015 Miami Independent Film Festival

    Official Selection of the 2015 LA CinaFest

    Official Selection of the "We Made it in Cannes" Film Competition during the 2015 Cannes Film Festival