Former ECDs N=5 x Dept®, Art x Copy, Blonde x Brunette.
Take 20+ years of advertising experience, combine that with
award winning work for brands as ABN-Amro, KPN, Bol & HEMA.
Multiply this by 2; that makes Daniel te Lindert x René Verbong

FREELANCE / INTERIM AVAILABLE!

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JOINED FORCES

DANIEL TE LINDERT has been in advertising since 2004. Started at Lowe and Draft then moved to independent agencies Lemz, INDIE and N=5 where he was ECD in the management team. As of 2021 he started freelancing at Dawn, Dept, Cheil, Ace and many more.

He has worked for brands like NIKE, IKEA, Mini, ABN Amro bank, KPN Telecom, Mercedes-Benz, Bitvavo and Unilever.

He has won a myriad of awards such as Grand Prix and Gold Lions, D&AD Pencils, Eurobest Grands Prix, Lovie Agency of the Year, AMA’s, Webby’s and more.

RENÉ VERBONG started at Etcetera DDB in 2003. He worked for independent agencies Doom&Dickson and XXS Amsterdam and network agency FHV/BBDO. In 2018 he joined Dept® as ECD & Partner.

He has worked for brands like Audi, Johnnie Walker, Netflix, Snickers, Mercedes-Benz, Bitvavo, Shweppes, Dutch retailer HEMA and the Dutch ‘Amazon’ Bol.com.

At Dept® his team won heaps of awards including Webby Agency of the Year, Lovie Agency of the Year, Best Social Agency of the Year and SAN Agency of the Year. His personal accolades consist of awards at the Effie’s, Cannes Lions, Eurobest, Clio and many more.

Fun fact: Verbong also runs his own custom arcade business.

Now that they’ve joined forces they really want to focus on what they do best:
creating smart activations, quality content and brand campaigns in all shapes and sizes.

YOU MIGHT KNOW US FROM

bol
The store of…

At Dept®, René was ECD on Bol (the Dutch Amazon) for 5.5 years. With success: amongst being awarded at festivals like D&AD, Bol won the SAN Consistent Award for best long term campaign. The very, very last briefing he worked on was for this year's Sinterklaas campaign (Sinterklaas is the Dutch Santa Claus), where Bol helps to make sure your wish list is being sent to Sint.

Kudos to the gigantic, fantastic Dept® x Bol team who made this possible all these years 💙

kpn
Discover the possibilities

At N=5, Daniel worked for 6.5 years on the campaign that would turn Dutch telecom provider KPN into a ‘love brand’. With endearing toddlers, emotional films about SIM-card use abroad and telecom services for modern businesses. The highlights of this campaign were the heartwarming content about gamers celebrating Christmas and the vlogger from the Second World War that stole our hearts: Evert_45.

Non of this would’ve been possible without Thijs Bontje, everyone at N=5, Yvette Belt and the KPN comms-team

LOTS of love for HEma

René worked with Dutch retailer HEMA for over 10 years. He wrote a number of the award winning 'Made with love' scripts at Doom&Dickson and he was at the cradle of HEMA's first viral posts and his 'Mega Push Up Bra' stunt went all over the world. At XXS Amsterdam, René created the HEMA Sintersizer and unmasked the Easter Bunny Family.

Made with love with Ferry van Tongeren, Jaap Sinke, John de Vries and the HEMA comms-team ❤️

safety nl
label lotery

Together with LEMZ, Daniel proved that no one reads the labels of their household chemicals. What helped to change that was telling everyone that on some labels you could also read the winning line “If you read this you win €1000,-”

Shout out to winning team Bram Tervoort, Chester de Vries, Mark Woerde and golden Cees Meijer