What is Epic Frame specialised in?

Campaign concepts & big ideas, Campaign execution, Video production.

How big is Epic Frame?

Around 5 full-time equivalents (financial year 2025).

Review: Epic Frame

Q: Who are the clients of Epic Frame?

Among others Universiteit Gent, Bausch & Lomb, Danone, Provincie Antwerpen, Voetbal Vlaanderen, Gemeente Machelen, BNP Paribas Fortis, ExxonMobil, Smart E-Grid, Soudal, Sleepworld, MediaMarkt, Stad Halle, Mediagenix, IDEWE.

Sinds 2012 is Epic Frame actief als productiehuis uit Herent. Er werken ongeveer 5 mensen, uitgedrukt in voltijdse equivalenten. Het aanbod is gericht op video & productie en creatie & reclame. Sectorieel richt het bureau zich vooral op b2b, corporate en brede sectoren.

1

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

20212022202320242025

Latest year: € 314.485 gross margin, growth +10,6% against a sector median of +11,2%.

Growing slower than the sector

MarginEBITDA / gross margin · value-added coverage

20212022202320242025

Epic FrameSector median

EBITDA margin 1,8%, sector median 41,6%. Value-added coverage 1,02 (median 1,44). Value-added coverage sits in the sector-wide grey zone (0.95-1.15): context, not an alarm.

Below sector level

Revenue per headGross margin per FTE, against payroll cost

€ 62.897

Median (2024) € 71.844

Against a payroll cost of € 61.761 per FTE. The ratio between the two is the coverage rate above.

Below the median

Yield levelYield per hour worked, against payroll cost

€ 41

Median (2024) € 44

7.599 hours worked, 1.520 per FTE. Against that sits € 41 of payroll cost per hour worked, leaving € 1 for premises, equipment, depreciation and profit.

Around 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.

2

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: -11,8 months (median 9,2 mo). Equity in the latest year: € -303.926.

Critical buffer

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

Cash € 16.055. Liquidity ratio 0,35: current assets cover short-term debt not in full. Solvency -165,2%.

Not covered

Payment behaviourTowards suppliers and towards the NBB

Trade payables correspond to 167 days of supplier credit, sector median 43. The accounts were filed 212 days after closing; the legal deadline is seven months.

Pays slower than average

3

Signals and strengths

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

Continuity

4 red flag(s) (24m)

Signals in the last 24 months

Zichtbaarheid verschoven · 1 Sep 2026 · Google Autocomplete
Zichtbaarheid verschoven · 1 Sep 2026 · Google Autocomplete
Zichtbaarheid verschoven · 1 Aug 2026 · Google Autocomplete
Zichtbaarheid verschoven · 1 Aug 2026 · Google Autocomplete
Two consecutive loss-making years · 30 Sep 2025 · NBB
Two financial years in a row closed at a loss. That can be an investment period, or a client that fell away. Ask what explains the pattern and what has changed since.
Negative equity · 30 Sep 2025 · NBB
Debts exceed assets. Sometimes a subordinated shareholder loan sits opposite that, sometimes not. Ask how the agency is covering this, and on what timescale.
+ 4 older signals within 24m

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

Equity was earned, not injected (reserves 2,4× the capital contributed)

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

4

All the figures

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

5 financial years, 2021 to 2025Result, staff and balance sheet

	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
Result
Gross margin	€ 299.915	€ 301.521+0,5%	€ 340.570+13%	€ 284.249-16,5%	€ 314.485+10,6%
EBITDA	€ 13.170	€ -104.662	€ -48.866	€ -46.372	€ 5.678
EBITDA margin	4,4%	-34,7%	-14,3%	-16,3%	1,8%
Staff
FTE	6,6	7,0+6,1%	5,8-17,1%	-	5,0
Gross margin per FTE	€ 45.442	€ 43.074	€ 58.719	-	€ 62.897
Payroll cost per FTE	€ 43.070	€ 55.672	€ 58.502	-	€ 61.761
Balance sheet
Equity	€ -35.632	€ -159.226	€ -236.146	€ -299.473	€ -303.926
Cash	€ 20.124	€ 48.176	€ 6.931	€ 28.609	€ 16.055
Liquidity ratio	0,81	0,53	0,30	0,27	0,35

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 30/04/2026. 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 21 Sep 2026. Sector medians based on financial year 2024: the last year for which nearly all accounts have been filed.

What the agency actually does 3 services

Advertising & Campaigns

Campaign concepts & big ideas Campaign execution

Content & Production

Video production

Sector focus

Health & pharmaPublic sector & governmentFinance & insuranceFMCGEnergy & utilities

Publicly known clients

Universiteit Gent, Bausch & Lomb, Danone, Provincie Antwerpen, Voetbal Vlaanderen, Gemeente Machelen, BNP Paribas Fortis, ExxonMobil, Smart E-Grid, Soudal, Sleepworld, MediaMarkt, Stad Halle, Mediagenix, IDEWE

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

1

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

€ 61.761

+21% versus the median

Team composition

5,0 FTE

29% women
71% men

€ 61.761

Median Productiehuis (2024) € 51.086All agencies (2024) € 59.045

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.

2

Will your team stay?

Inflow and outflow from the social report. This series only counts people on the payroll: freelancers who invoice do not appear in it. A low figure therefore means two very different things, a stable permanent team or a small core with heavy outsourcing. A high figure usually points to short contracts. Compare only within the same type of agency.

Exits 2023

86,2%

Median for this type of agency (2024): 30,6%

Inflow 2023

51,7%

3,0 FTE in, 5,0 FTE out

Net team change

-2,0 FTE

2021202220232025

Figures for financial year 2023: in 2025 this agency published no inflow or outflow.

Exits are clearly above what is usual for this type of agency. That may reflect project-based staffing, but it is a reason to ask in the pitch how much of the proposed team was already here two years ago, and to contractually fix your permanent contacts.

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 2024: the last year for which nearly all accounts have been filed.