Butones is a full-service creative and production agency based in Tirana, Albania. Strategy, advertising, film, digital and web sit under one roof — backed by a production team that has been making work for major brands in Turkey for eighteen years.

    Most clients arrive with one of two problems. Either the business has grown faster than its systems and needs order: a clear position, a consistent identity, a campaign calendar someone actually owns. Or the opposite — everything is correct, approved, on-brand and completely forgettable, and it needs shaking loose. We call those two routes Order and Relax, and the first conversation is usually about working out which one you are.

    Our services

    Advertising & brand strategyPositioning, naming, visual identity and campaign concepts that hold together across every channel.Video & film productionTV commercials, brand films, social-first video and photography — script to final grade.Digital marketing & social mediaSocial media management, content production, paid media planning and digital buying.Web design & developmentFast, search-friendly websites and online stores built to be found and to convert.Events & entertainment productionLaunches, brand activations, live events and the crew and talent to run them.

    How we work

    We are deliberately small at the front and deep at the back. You talk to the people who make the decisions, not an account layer that relays messages. Behind them sits a bench of directors, editors, designers, photographers and media planners in Tirana and Istanbul that we scale up or down depending on what the job actually needs.

    • Understand. A short, honest audit of where the brand sits today — category, competitors, and what customers already believe.
    • Decide. One clear strategic route rather than three safe ones. We will tell you when we think an idea is wrong.
    • Make. Production in-house wherever possible, which keeps budgets predictable and revisions cheap.
    • Measure. Reporting on what moved — reach, cost per result, enquiries — rather than vanity metrics.

    An agency in Albania with a production team in Turkey

    Butones was founded in Albania in 2024, but its founders spent eighteen years in Turkey building campaigns, films and brand strategies for large advertisers. That matters in practice. An Albanian client gets local market knowledge and Albanian-language work, plus access to crews, post-production and production values that would normally sit well outside a market this size. We still run full-service agency work in Turkey, and the two teams share people constantly.

    Working in Albanian, English and Turkish

    Campaigns are produced in Albanian for the domestic market and in English for regional and international audiences, with Turkish-language work handled by the Istanbul team. Nothing is machine-translated and shipped — copy is written in the language it will run in.

    Talk to us

    The useful first conversation is short and specific: what you are trying to sell, launch or fix, roughly what you can spend, and when it needs to be live. From that we can usually tell you within a day whether we are the right agency for it.

    Start a project with Butones

    Call +355 69 700 33 34, email info@butones.com, or use the contact form. Our studio is at Rr. Kristo Luarasi, Lake View Residence D 8/3, 1019 Tirana, Albania.