How big is Digital Climax?

Around 1 full-time equivalent (financial year 2025).

Review: Digital Climax

Digital Climax is een performance- & mediabureau uit Lille, actief sinds 2023. Het bureau is toegespitst op seo en paid media (sea/social/display).

Digital Climax SEO agency focus op de 3 pijlers van SEO:

Techniek
Content
AutoriteitZe werken altijd met een resultaat gedreven blik & zetten enorm in op innovatie. Eigen tools zoals de Architect, de eigen SEO Chrome extensie en de inzet van AI tonen hun commitment op de toekomst.

Digital Climax introduceert zich vaak als 'Het saaiste SEO agency van België' gezien ze focussen op wat werkt zonder afleidingen en 'shiny object syndrome'. Dat is saai, maar het werkt. Met SEO of AI optimalisatie vang je mensen op die zelf aangeven op zoek te zijn naar een product/dienst. Die mensen overtuigen is de makkelijkste taak in marketing.

SEO agency
AI optimalisatie (GEO)
Resultaat gedreven
Saaiste SEO agency van België

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How this agency makes money

Revenue, margin and what an hour of work brings in. Everything on the earning side sits together here.

Revenue trendgross margin per financial year

20242025

Latest year: € 156.232 gross margin, growth +407,7% against a sector median of +5,3%.

At or above sector pace

MarginEBITDA / gross margin · value-added coverage

20242025

Digital ClimaxSector median

EBITDA margin 79,4%, sector median 28%. Value-added coverage 4,92 (median 1,23).

Healthy margin

Revenue per headGross margin per FTE, against payroll cost

€ 260.387

Median (2025) € 76.236

Against a payroll cost of € 52.700 per FTE. The ratio between the two is the coverage rate above.

Above the median

Yield levelYield per hour worked, against payroll cost

€ 158

Median (2025) € 47

986 hours worked, 1.643 per FTE. Against that sits € 32 of payroll cost per hour worked, leaving € 126 for premises, equipment, depreciation and profit.

Above the median

No hourly rate follows from this. Gross margin is already net of services and sundry goods, which mixes rebilled production with the agency's own overhead, and the accounts do not say how many hours were billable. Deriving a rate from this systematically understates it.

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Can the agency take a hit

Buffer, cash position and payment behaviour side by side, so you can see where they disagree.

Bufferequity in months of payroll

Buffer: 46,6 months (median 6,3 mo). Equity in the latest year: € 122.785.

Adequate buffer

Cash positionAvailable cash, and whether it covers short-term debt

Cash € 135.055. Liquidity ratio 2,55: current assets cover short-term debt in full. Solvency 61%.

Amply covered

Payment behaviourTowards suppliers and towards the NBB

Trade payables correspond to 50 days of supplier credit, sector median 63. The accounts were filed 157 days after closing; the legal deadline is seven months.

Pays and files on time

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Signals and strengths

Events from the CBE and the Official Gazette over the past 24 months, plus positive markers derived from the figures.

Continuity

No serious signals

Signals in the last 24 months

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Zichtbaarheid verschoven · 1 Sep 2026 · Google Autocomplete

Click a signal for a plain-language explanation. Each signal is a fact from a public source, without the agency's own context. Best to ask them directly.

What this agency does well

EBITDA margin above the sector median (79,4%)
Strong buffer: 46,6 months of payroll in equity
Value-added per euro of payroll above the sector median (4,92)
Healthy working capital (current ratio 2,55)
Comfortable cash position: 1559 days of payroll

Each point is a fact from the filed annual accounts, measured against the same thresholds and sector medians as the signals above.

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All the figures

Reference material, not a starting point. Expand it if you want to read the series yourself.

2 financial years, 2024 to 2025Result, staff and balance sheet

	2024	2025
Result
Gross margin	€ 30.774	€ 156.232+407,7%
EBITDA	€ 29.884	€ 124.092
EBITDA margin	97,1%	79,4%
Staff
FTE	-	0,6
Gross margin per FTE	-	€ 260.387
Payroll cost per FTE	-	€ 52.700
Balance sheet
Equity	€ 24.974	€ 122.785
Cash	€ 31.854	€ 135.055
Liquidity ratio	3,44	2,55

Payroll cost per FTE comes from the social report where available, otherwise from the Remuneration line. Both are gross costs including employer contributions.

What this factsheet does not know

How good the work is. Figures do not measure creativity, strategy or chemistry.
How the client portfolio is spread. Concentration is not in the accounts.
Freelancers and subcontractors are not in the FTE figures. An agency with 40 staff may in practice run with 70 people.
The figures cover financial year 2025, filed on 06/06/2026. At a fast-moving agency reality today may differ.

Based on publicly filed annual accounts (NBB) and official records (CBE, Belgian Official Gazette). An indication, not financial advice. Sector medians calculated on 2 Nov 2026. Sector medians based on financial year 2025: the last year for which nearly all accounts have been filed.

What the agency actually does 1 services

Digital Experience & Tech

SEO & GEO

Sector focus

Retail & e-commerceFinance & insuranceTechnology & softwareTelecomHealth & pharmaTravel & hospitalityMedia & entertainmentEnergy & utilitiesReal estate & constructionB2B services

Based on IKAg research and public sources. Incomplete or outdated? Let us know.

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People 6 people mapped

Digital marketing is the engine: 3 of 6 profiles sit there. Within that core, SEO, Copywriting and Content Marketing stand out.

AV

Axl Van Steenacker

SEO-specialist en oprichter

DW

David Waligora

Technisch SEO Consultant

EB

Eline Broeckx

SEO-copywriter

GV

Glenn Van Den Heuvel

SEO-specialist en webontwikkelaar

LV

Laura van Trijp

SEO-copywriter

WA

Wouter Adriaensen

SEO-copywriter

Based on public profiles. Something wrong? Let us know.

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Seniors or juniors?

Payroll cost per FTE is the best public proxy for a team's experience level. Higher is not automatically better, but it says something about who sits at the table.

Payroll cost per FTE

€ 52.700

-16% versus the median

Team composition

0,6 FTE

€ 52.700

Median Performance- & mediabureau (2025) € 62.495All agencies (2025) € 62.294

Read with care. Directors and partners invoicing through a management company are not in the payroll cost. At small agencies this skews the picture downwards considerably.

Source: annual accounts and social reports (NBB), collected by IKAg. Financial year 2025. Calculations by IKAg; an indication, not financial advice. Sector medians based on financial year 2025: the last year for which nearly all accounts have been filed.