Emakina

The User Agency

Today’s users are empowered to find, choose and share opinions about your brand. As user advocates, our talented experts work tirelessly to satisfy user desires and expectations. Together with EPAM Systems, we offer an ideal mix of creativity, technological expertise and strategic business acumen to ensure that the timing, relevance and quality of each experience gives brands a competitive advantage.

We believe that happy users grow successful businesses.

Our offices

Emakina is constantly growing. As part of the EPAM family, we offer a wide range of expertise across a vast geographical area. We're always forging relationships and deepening our knowledge of markets around the world.

Our journey

Emakina was created in 2001 by the merger of three agencies with complementary expertise: Emalaya, NetAtWork, and Ex Machina. In 2006 it entered Alternext, Euronext's segment for growing SMEs.

This splash into the financial markets enabled Emakina's expansion, which started in 2007 with the acquisition of Belgian agencies The Reference, Design is Dead, and Your Agency, which have been part of the Emakina Group ever since. We’ve now spread across Europe, with agencies in the Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Turkey, Austria, Sweden, Croatia, Serbia and Poland. The Group has also settled in the Middle East, with an agency in Beirut, as well as in Africa, with our Cape Town agency.

Thanks to an ideal mix of creativity, technology expertise, and business acumen, Emakina has become the leading digital agency in Belgium, and one of the top 20 players in Europe. Since joining EPAM Systems in 2021, Emakina’s capabilities are boosted by their digital transformation and product engineering expertise. Together, we fuse strategy, engineering, creativity and analytics to better serve our clients.

Big moments

Let’s rewind. We’ve been dreaming, designing and building for decades and have evolved along with changing expectations. Take a scroll through our backstory and the moments that have brought us to where we are today. 

2021

EPAM officially acquired Emakina Group in 2021. Together, we deliver creative solutions, personalised experiences, and next generation digital products to global clients.

2020

Despite the year starting with the development of a global pandemic, Emakina doesn't lag behind. We preserve our competitiveness, client relationships and work ethic. It's the year we founded emakina.fm, helping us overcome what COVID-19 brought.

2019

During the first half of 2019, we invested in expanding our service range in marketplace activity, influencer marketing and e-commerce.

2018

There was further growth in Europe and Asia, with offices opening in Dubai and Singapore. Emakina tapped into influencer marketing, resulting in Emakina Influx being founded.

2017

Emakina and Air joined force to create Air+Emakina, the most complete integrated marketing and communication offer on the market. Air Brussels was named Belgium’s leading independent agency.

2016

Emakina claimed the #1 spot on Digimedia's list of Top 10 Digital Agencies in Belgium. We also expanded to Sweden.

2014

Emakina Insights was founded. Emakina.FR took a 100% stake in Paris-based Toy Agency. A year later, Emakina settled in Croatia.

2013

Emakina announced a strategic partnership with Germany's leading digital communication agency, SinnerSchrader, and continued its expansion. This time, we moved into Asia, with Relephant joining the family and becoming Emakina.TR.

2011

Emakina forged alliances with other BE agencies (R&M and Troy). Shortly after, in 2012, Emakina began important strategic partnerships with Metia and Digital Jungle.

2007

Emakina began its European expansion into the Netherlands, France and Switzerland. By this time, Emakina Group employed 200 people across Europe.

2006

Emakina entered the Euronext Growth (former Alternext) — the segment of Euronext reserved for growing SMEs. This launch into the financial markets enabled the agency to expand in Europe.

2001

Emakina and Emakina Group were created in 2001 through a merger of three existing agencies: Emalaya, NetAtWork, Ex Machina, who pooled their complementary expertise to create the 'Emakina' brand.

1991

Newly founded Ex Machina was just one piece of the DNA that defines Emakina today. Additional pieces were two other agencies founded in the 90s, NetAtWork and Emalaya.

Carbon neutral from agency to building

We are proud to be CO2-neutral certified, both agency and building for 2023. Scan the QR Code to discover key information on what this label means to us:

  • Our carbon footprint scope
  • Reduction plan target
  • Financing climate projects
  • Our long-term ambitions

Reduction & offsetting

Carbon neutrality implies a balance between the carbon emitted and the carbon saved from being emitted elsewhere and/or absorbed out of our atmosphere.

Our 1st focus is on reducing our emissions. However, there are some emissions that we have not been able to get rid of completely. To even out our impact, we’ve invested in clean cookstoves in Rwanda. This partnership is the perfect example of how carbon offsetting programs can help our world achieve carbon neutrality whilst also having a strong social impact.

This certification encourages us to go further in our sustainable thinking and approach. It will inspire us to constantly measure & improve our own carbon footprint.

People

The success of Emakina is thanks to our remarkable people. Teams of talented experts dare to think differently as they collaborate to serve the needs of clients. We are digital experts, creative thinkers, innovative nerds and dedicated doers.