We are backed by the Carlyle Group
Since January 2020
Read moreOur Vision
Build the best digital services company in the world
Fast Facts
€500m+
Revenues in 2022
>4,000
Digital Specialists
>1,100
Clients across 30 offices in 20 countries on 5 continents
>230%
Growth in the last 3 years
200+
Leaders and founders are DEPT® shareholders
30
Acquisitions since 2015
People at DEPT®
People
DEPT® focuses on building an agency that reimagines an industry rooted in traditions. When others turn right, we strategically turn left. Explore the ambitions behind our leadership.
Our leaders
Dimi Albers
Chief Executive Officer
Missy Foristall
Chief Operations Officer
Frank Schmid
Chief Development Officer
Mickey Kalifa
Chief Financial Officer
What makes us unique
The only global agency that is truly 50% technology and 50% marketing focused.
Digital transformation and products are at the core of your business and to the brand, creative and media that brings you to market. Our focus on technology and marketing allows us to partner with you across the full digital customer journey.
What makes us unique
A culture inspired by a pioneering spirit
We create digital products, services and campaigns that help brands stay ahead of their competition. Our global teams set the standards for innovation and creativity as the most awarded agency at the Webby Awards (the Oscars of the Internet) this year.
We are big enough to cope and small enough to care
We have the scale to work for any brand in the world, alongside an ownership model of a boutique agency. With more than 200 employees who are shareholders, we give our clients a personal, long lasting relationship with one or more owners of our business. This unique model inspired by the intimacy of a boutique agency alongside the scale of a global agency sets us apart from our competitors.
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 realise 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.
2022
DEPT® is named Agency Network of the Year by the Webby Awards and Agency of the Year by the Lovie Awards.
2023
DEPT® launches DEPT®/AI and repeats as Agency Network of the Year and BASIC/DEPT® wins Agency of the Year at the Webby Awards
