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Sodexo and Emakina launch new service voucher website and mobile apps

Sodexo and Emakina successfully launched their first project together: 1.2 million consumers in Flanders, Brussels and Wallonia can now manage their housekeeping assistance more easily. The new Sodexo service voucher website, secured user platform, and mobile application run like clockwork, make complex processes simple, and have easy to access interfaces.
Part of this success lies in the agile and full scrum collaboration, working closely together with the Regions.
Two more major projects will follow this year, focusing on services for household helpers and a second for authorized agencies.

July 1, 2020

Emakina wins 13 Horizon Interactive Awards, 2 Best in Category

At the 18th Horizon Interactive Awards, one of the most prestigious competitions for interactive and creative media, Emakina was honored with no less that 13 awards. The website for football team Olympique de Marseille and the video campaign for SBAB bank won ‘Best in Category’, the highest distinction in the international competition. Gold award winners […]

April 28, 2020

D’Ieteren kicks of the Brussels Auto Show in style (with a little help of their Emakina friends)

Smiles all around yesterday evening, at the traditional opening of the 98th edition of the Brussels Motor Show. Our colleagues were there in their finest evening wear, having gladly accepted the invitation from our friends at D’Ieteren and Volkswagen D’Ieteren Finance.

January 11, 2020

CRM- and data-expert Maarten De Neve joins Emakina

Emakina’s Digital Marketing Team welcomes data expert Maarten De Neve as its new Marketing Automation Practice Lead. He adds his vast strategic and project-oriented data and CRM-experience to their dynamic mix. The move matches Emakina’s ambition to boost Marketing Automation as a pivotal element in today’s strategic business development. Welcome back, Maarten Maarten will manage […]

October 25, 2019

CaseDay19: celebrating excellence in building digital businesses

Emakina Group’s Caseday19 showed a mature organization uniting 19 offices, confident in serving top companies with high-end digital and marketing services across 3 continents. 24 cases were presented as part of a group award, honoring the almost 1,000 talents in the group executing about 2,000 projects each year.

September 20, 2019

My first steps of an exciting journey in IT

Choosing your own path as a recently graduated junior is not an easy job. It takes hard work, but in the end, it is worth it. My life as a young woman in the IT-world began in 2018 when I graduated as an Industrial Engineer at GroepT (KULeuven). Today, being a consultant for DiD, I […]

June 11, 2020

Emakina and Wunderman Thompson asked who is ‘De Mol’, for Rodenbach and VIER

For seven weeks, over one million viewers flocked to Belgian channel VIER for the iconic tv show ‘De Mol’. Starting with 10 candidates in Greece executing exciting challenges, 3 candidates made it to the final episode. On their adventures, they had to succeed in as many assignments as possible, to earn money, while keeping an […]

April 28, 2020

Discovering HELM, a package manager for Kubernetes

I’ve been using Kubernetes for a while now, but I never took the opportunity to have a look at Kubernetes’ most popular package manager: Helm. Every developer knows how tedious the process of installing, removing, upgrading, configuring software, dependencies, tools was before package managers existed. I’ve been using package managers like npm or yarn for […]

December 23, 2019

Five CAD students experience real agency life at Emakina

Five students of CAD Brussels College of Art and Design finished a very intense week at Emakina, to experience agency work in real life, and learn how projects are born.
Emakina has a tradition of inviting talent from this school to its offices, and some of the visiting students in the past stayed on to start their career at the agency.

October 25, 2019

Emakina welcomes Leon Jacobs as its new Executive Creative Director

Leon Jacobs joins Emakina as its new Executive Creative Director. He is an award-winning creative and a strategic thinker with a keen interest in storytelling. Leon has a solid understanding of business drivers and combines sparkling ideas with an abundance of positive motivational energy.

September 10, 2019

You don’t have to choose between DIY or outsourcing for your next digital project. Here’s why.

You don’t have to choose between DIY or outsourcing for your next digital project. Here’s why. Making choices is usually difficult, making the right choice is always hard. And that is especially true for projects with strategic value for your brand or organization. Let’s imagine that your company needs a new digital platform, that should […]

May 28, 2020

AEM with VUE.JS – Part 1

As an Adobe Experience Manager specialised partner and passionate full-stack development team, we are always on the lookout to improve our productivity when building websites with a rich visitor experience on the AEM platform. Introduction Deciding on which front-end framework to use can be a complex business for any project. Selecting one that plays well with […]

April 9, 2020

HackYourFuture students get a taste of Emakina agency life

Emakina welcomed a motivated group of 8 aspiring student developers to its Brussels office. Visits like this are not so exceptional at the digital agency. But this one was different nevertheless, because it was part of the HackYourFuture digital skills program. This excellent initiative helps motivated people with limited access to opportunities so they can […]

October 28, 2019

Emakina’s Leon Jacobs: advertising ruined social media

Emakina’s Leon Jacobs says advertising is killing social media but can save it. And all of us. With the right design questions, brands can use social media channels to help wire together brains to improve the lives of people around the world.

October 21, 2019

Emakina’s Aline Durand clarifies media consumption trends in RTBF radio show

Aline Durand, Head of Emakina Insights & Consulting was invited this week on ‘la Première’ (RTBF)to comment on a Nielsen report. Media consumption seems to be exploding, but she puts them in perspective and indicates some trends.

September 6, 2019