How big is Loud and Clear?

Around 2 full-time equivalents (financial year 2025).

Which sectors does Loud and Clear work for?

Finance & insurance, Industry & manufacturing, Technology & software, Food & beverage, Healthcare & pharma.

Who are the clients of Loud and Clear?

Among others Go Forest, INNI Group, Habitat, Mova Finco.

Review: Loud and Clear

Q: What is Loud and Clear specialised in?

Content strategy & editorial, Influencer & creator marketing, Organic social content, Social strategy & platform mix, Corporate communication, PR strategy & media relations.

Vanuit Harelbeke werkt Loud and Clear sinds 2023 als pr- & communicatiebureau. Het aanbod bestrijkt social media, pr & communicatie en content & copy. Sectorieel richt het bureau zich vooral op b2b-focus: technologie, industrie en innovatie, gezondheidszorg en financien. Uit de publiek bekende klantenlijst: Go Forest, INNI Group, Habitat en Mova Finco.

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

20242025

Latest year: € 82.137 gross margin, growth -28,6% against a sector median of +1,2%.

Shrinking

MarginEBITDA / gross margin · value-added coverage

20242025

Loud and ClearSector median

EBITDA margin 21,3%, sector median 25,6%. Value-added coverage 1,27 (median 1,29).

Healthy margin

Revenue per headGross margin per FTE, against payroll cost

€ 45.632

Median (2025) € 83.630

Against a payroll cost of € 35.474 per FTE. The ratio between the two is the coverage rate above.

Below the median

Yield levelYield per hour worked, against payroll cost

€ 27

Median (2025) € 50

3.068 hours worked, 1.704 per FTE. Against that sits € 21 of payroll cost per hour worked, leaving € 6 for premises, equipment, depreciation and profit.

Below 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 12,2 mo). Equity in the latest year: € 62.714.

Adequate buffer

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

Cash € 8.000. Liquidity ratio 2,24: current assets cover short-term debt in full. Solvency 18,9%.

Amply covered

Payment behaviourTowards suppliers and towards the NBB

Trade payables correspond to 55 days of supplier credit, sector median 71. The accounts were filed 243 days after closing; the legal deadline is seven months.

Filed late

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

No serious signals

Signals in the last 24 months

Zichtbaarheid verschoven · 1 Nov 2026 · Google Autocomplete
Zichtbaarheid verschoven · 1 Nov 2026 · Google Autocomplete
Zichtbaarheid verschoven · 1 Oct 2026 · Google Autocomplete
Zichtbaarheid verschoven · 1 Sep 2026 · Google Autocomplete
Zichtbaarheid verschoven · 1 Sep 2026 · Google Autocomplete
Late filing · 31 Aug 2026 · NBB
The annual accounts were filed after the statutory deadline. Over a third of the sector does this, usually because of the accountant's calendar. Rarely a story in itself.
+ 1 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

Strong buffer: 11,8 months of payroll in equity
Team grew (+125,0% FTE in the latest year)
Healthy working capital (current ratio 2,24)
Equity was earned, not injected (reserves 30,4× 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.

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

	2024	2025
Result
Gross margin	€ 114.987	€ 82.137-28,6%
EBITDA	€ 82.510	€ 17.523
EBITDA margin	71,8%	21,3%
Staff
FTE	0,8	1,8+125%
Gross margin per FTE	€ 143.733	€ 45.632
Payroll cost per FTE	€ 39.287	€ 35.474
Balance sheet
Equity	€ 55.817	€ 62.714
Cash	€ 36.065	€ 8.000
Liquidity ratio	1,90	2,24

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 31/08/2026. 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 6 services

Content & Production

Content strategy & editorial

Social, Influencer & Community

Influencer & creator marketing Organic social content Social strategy & platform mix

PR & Reputation

Corporate communication PR strategy & media relations

Sector focus

B2B services

Publicly known clients

Go ForestINNI GroupHabitatMova Finco

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

1

People 4 people mapped

The heart of this team is creative: 2 of 4 profiles are makers. Within that core, Copywriting and Video stand out. A small team: short lines, little noise between you and the makers.

DV

Delphine Van Hoecke

PR and Comms Lead & Founder

FF

Frele Fierens

Digital Marketeer & Visual Content

LV

Laura Vercruysse

PR Consultant

ZM

Zoë Malfait

Content Creator

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

2

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

€ 35.474

-42% versus the median

Team composition

1,8 FTE

€ 35.474

Median PR- & communicatiebureau (2025) € 61.577All 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.

3

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 2025

/

Median for this type of agency (2025): 35,1%

Inflow 2025

55,6%

20242025

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.