Top UAE Influencers on Instagram and TikTok (2026)
Two ranked lists of creators based in the United Arab Emirates: Instagram accounts ordered by engagement rate, TikTok accounts ordered by average views per post. Switch tabs to move between them.
This report ranks 1,000 creators based in the United Arab Emirates, split across two platforms and two separate leaderboards. The Instagram tab holds 500 accounts ordered by engagement rate. The TikTok tab holds 500 accounts ordered by average views per post. Both lists start at a floor of 50,000 followers.
The two tabs are ranked on different metrics on purpose, and they are never merged into one list. An engagement rate and a view count measure different things, and a combined ordering would rank a number against an unrelated number. Everything below is measured data pulled from the Click Analytic creator database, with no estimate, projection or editorial score mixed in.
🗓 Last updated: August 2026
| # | Creator | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Ayshell 🐚🦪🫧 @3yshell | 82.1K | 1321.65% | Analyze → |
| #2 | Flora @flora__nm | 51.7K | 388.39% | Analyze → |
| #3 | Raman Rijal @raman.rijal.7 | 62.4K | 336.64% | Analyze → |
| #4 | Shayan | Filmmaker @shayanshots | 65.6K | 257.18% | Analyze → |
| #5 | Kasia Vuorinen @queenofsupercarslife | 123.9K | 241.56% | Analyze → |
| #6 | VICTORIA ETIMBUK JAMES @victoriaetimbuk | 53.6K | 238.58% | Analyze → |
| #7 | Shabeeb Alhammadi @shaboob10 | 65.3K | 220.79% | Analyze → |
| #8 | ASAD KHAN🇦🇪 @asadstic_ | 62.1K | 204.95% | Analyze → |
| #9 | ᴢᴀʏʟᴀ 🇸🇦 @zaylaaaz | 55.2K | 196.48% | Analyze → |
| #10 | Ryan Romal @ifyouknowryan | 65.4K | 175.52% | Analyze → |
| #11 | Summer Rosie @summerroose | 61.1K | 155.38% | Analyze → |
| #12 | Armita @rmeetaa | 50.7K | 153.49% | Analyze → |
| #13 | Lia Mahdy @chimi.era | 145.1K | 148.30% | Analyze → |
| #14 | 𝙈𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙩𝙤𝙠 𝘿𝙪𝙗𝙖𝙞 @molotok_official | 128.6K | 148.13% | Analyze → |
| #15 | Sreejith_babu @dangel_david_dynamo | 113.9K | 146.56% | Analyze → |
| #16 | Aya Derar @aya_derar | 119.4K | 131.17% | Analyze → |
| #17 | nafaa jon @nafaa_jon | 105.4K | 130.47% | Analyze → |
| #18 | Kerr. @jeonkerr | 92.9K | 130.33% | Analyze → |
| #19 | Shanawar Ali @wineiix | 54.7K | 122.45% | Analyze → |
| #20 | MAHMOUD KAMEL ISSA @mahm0udkamel | 185.6K | 115.04% | Analyze → |
| #21 | Julia Klochkova @juliaklochkova_ | 65.7K | 102.43% | Analyze → |
| #22 | Sameer Nandoliya @its._sam14 | 204.0K | 99.18% | Analyze → |
| #23 | Arian Chari @jexmi | 330.1K | 93.92% | Analyze → |
| #24 | Niel Murillo @boyband_nielm | 104.6K | 91.01% | Analyze → |
| #25 | دوبــامـيكافين | dupamicaffeiine @dupamicaffeiine_2 | 130.5K | 90.85% | Analyze → |
Check any of these creators before you brief them
Follower counts and view averages tell you reach. They do not tell you whether the audience is real, where it lives, or whether it overlaps with a creator you already booked.
How these two lists were built
Both tabs come from the same source, the Click Analytic creator database, filtered to accounts associated with the United Arab Emirates and to a floor of 50,000 followers. From there the two platforms part ways, because the useful signal on each is different.
- Instagram: 500 accounts, sorted by engagement rate, highest first. The list runs from 1321.65% at the top to 9.45% at rank 500.
- TikTok: 500 accounts, sorted by average views per post, highest first. The list runs from 39,100,000 views at the top to 262,950 at rank 500.
- Ranks are computed per tab. Position 1 on the TikTok tab means first among the TikTok accounts, not first overall.
- Every figure is measured. Nothing on this page is estimated, projected or scored by hand.
Why the two tabs are ranked on different metrics
Instagram engagement is measured against a follower base, and on Instagram that base is still the unit brands buy against. TikTok distribution works the other way round: the For You feed pushes a post to people who do not follow the account, so a follower count predicts very little and the view average predicts a lot. On this dataset the median TikTok account in the list averages 1.33 views for every follower it has, and 280 of the 500 accounts average more views than they have followers.
That is why there is no combined top 1,000 here. Merging the two would mean sorting an engagement percentage against a view count, which produces an ordering that looks authoritative and means nothing.
Reading the Instagram engagement column
Engagement rate on this list is engagements divided by followers. The median account in the Instagram tab sits at 15.77%, the floor at rank 500 is 9.45%. Both are high, and that is a selection effect, not a claim about the UAE market: this is the top 500 of a filtered set, sorted on exactly that metric.
The top row is the clearest case. Ayshell 🐚🦪🫧 (@3yshell) shows 1321.65% against 103,534 median followers across the list. A number that size is a single distribution spike passing through the ratio. It is worth investigating and it is not worth treating as a stable rate you can plan a campaign against.
Reading the TikTok view column
The TikTok tab is blunter to read. The median account averages 515,875 views per post, against a median follower count of 441,350. The top of the list, @alaa.ayyman, averages 39,100,000.
Average views is the metric closest to what a brand actually receives from a TikTok post, but it is an average, so a single viral post lifts it for months. Before booking, check the spread of recent posts rather than the average alone.
What this report does not claim
The exports behind this page carry four things: identity, follower count, one metric per platform, and a profile image. They do not carry the rest, so the rest is absent rather than filled in.
No audience country split
The list selects on the creator, not on where their followers live. A creator based in the UAE can hold a mostly non UAE audience, so no "UAE audience %" column is shown.
No category
Neither export carries a niche or vertical, so there is no category column and no category filter. Assigning one by hand across 1,000 accounts would be a guess presented as data.
No growth figure
There is no historical baseline in either export, so no follower growth is published. This is a snapshot ranking, not a growth ranking.
No bios and no contact details
Profile bios are not reproduced. They are third party text that frequently carries personal emails and phone numbers, and republishing them is a privacy problem, not a feature.
How to use the list
Treat both tabs as a shortlist input, not an answer. A high engagement rate or a high view average tells you a creator gets attention. It does not tell you whose attention, whether that attention is real, or what it costs. Those are the three questions that decide a campaign, and all three need the underlying account data.
- Check where the audience actually lives before assuming a UAE creator delivers a UAE audience.
- Check the authenticity of the follower base. A high ratio can come from real reach or from inflated engagement, and the two look identical in a single number.
- Check the spread of recent posts, not just the average, on the TikTok side.
- Check overlap across your shortlist, so you are not paying twice to reach the same people.
Questions about this ranking
How is the engagement rate on the Instagram tab calculated?+
It is total engagements divided by the follower count, expressed as a percentage. Because the denominator is followers rather than views, an account whose posts travel far beyond its own audience can score above 100%.
21 of the 500 accounts on the Instagram tab do exactly that. Those rows show reach outside the follower base, not a share of followers who engaged.
Why are Instagram and TikTok ranked on different metrics?+
Because the platforms distribute content differently. Instagram engagement is still measured against a follower base, while TikTok pushes posts to non followers through the For You feed, which makes average views the more honest measure of what a post delivers.
Sorting one combined list would mean ranking a percentage against a view count. The two tabs stay separate for that reason, and each rank is computed only within its own tab.
Are these creators based in the United Arab Emirates?+
The list selects on the creator being associated with the UAE, not on their audience being in the UAE. Those are different things.
A creator based in Dubai or Abu Dhabi may hold a largely international following. If your campaign needs a UAE audience specifically, verify the audience country breakdown on each account before booking, because this page does not publish one.
What follower sizes are covered?+
Both lists start at 50,000 followers. On Instagram the accounts run from 50,094 to 18,057,393 followers, with a median of 103,534.
On TikTok they run from 51,100 to 21,900,000, with a median of 441,350.
How often is this updated?+
The figures on this page were measured in August 2026. Engagement rates and view averages move continuously, so treat any single reading as a snapshot rather than a fixed property of the account.
For a current number on a specific creator, run the handle through the platform rather than relying on a dated list.
Why is there no category or growth column?+
Because the source exports carry neither. Adding a niche label or a growth percentage that the data does not contain would mean publishing a guess in a column that reads as measured.
The columns that are shown are the ones backed by the export: follower count, engagement rate on Instagram, and average views on TikTok.
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