Dubai Production City (formerly International Media Production Zone) is a TECOM free zone built for printing, publishing, advertising production and broader media-manufacturing businesses — the physical-production side of the media industry, complementing the more content-and-broadcast-focused Dubai Media City.
What Dubai Production City is built for
Dubai Production City licenses printing, packaging, publishing production, advertising production and related media-manufacturing activities, with warehouse and production-facility space for businesses that physically print or manufacture media products, alongside standard offices for supporting service businesses in the same sector.
Costs and what drives them
Costs scale with whether you need physical printing or production facility space versus a standard office for a media-adjacent service business — the two are meaningfully different budgets. Model a standard office case with this site's Business Setup Cost Calculator and confirm production-facility pricing directly.
Is Dubai Production City the right fit?
If your business genuinely involves printing, packaging or physical media production, Dubai Production City's facilities are built specifically for that need. For content creation, broadcasting or general media consulting without a physical production component, Dubai Media City or a lower-cost option like SHAMS may fit better — see this site's Free Zone vs Mainland Tool for the comparison.