helping ambitious brands
grow faster

BY THE NUMBERS

At DEPT®, strategy meets world-class craft. We think big, deliver exceptional outcomes, and never lose our entrepreneurial spirit.

4,000 ⁺
Depsters

Our team of over 4,000 digital specialists spans 30+ offices across 5 continents.
30 ⁺
Offices

We have the size and scale to work with any brand in the world.
30 ⁺
Years

We’ve been passionate about delivering pioneering work for our clients by building new products, creating new experiences, and activating new channels.
$4B

Under media management.
30

Acquisitions since 2015.
85 ⁺

Nationalities and counting, with more than 50 languages spoken in house.

Meet the Exec Team

Dimi Albers

Global CEO

Sarah Steele

Global Chief People Officer

Andrew Dimitriou

Global Chief Client and Growth Officer

David Neal

Global Chief Finance Officer

Backed by the Carlyle Group

Since January 2020.

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We’re 50-50 tech and marketing, partner-led, and first to move.

We are fluent in both technology and marketing, giving a complete 360-view and delivering tangible outcomes faster. We have a deeper multi-disciplinary talent bench and are genuinely global, enabling clients to scale faster.

GLOBAL POWER. LOCAL AGILITY.

Our talent flows to where you need it, in every timezone. 4000+ craft leaders are available to surround your problem and solve it as one integrated team.

We’re partner-led. We have 200 owners with skin in the game, which keeps us entrepreneurial and accountable. Every client has a direct, personal relationship with an owner of our business. This makes our relationships more committed and long-term than what you often find with other global competitors. We invent and build rather than consult and walk away.

Timeline

1996

Brothers Paul and Bart Manuel found TamTam, a full-service digital agency in the Netherlands

2015

TamTam partners with private equity firm Waterland to realize its international ambitions.

2016

TamTam merges together with other international leading digital agencies to form DEPT®, a global agency that combines creativity, technology and data.

2019

Dimi Albers is appointed CEO and DEPT® partners with The Carlyle Group to continue to accelerate its growth.

DEPT® expands into the Americas.

2021

DEPT® is the first global agency to become a Certified B Corporation

DEPT® launches its Asia Pacific operations, headed up by former Havas Group CEO Vishnu Mohan.