A few questions, a few answers

Well, yeah, but we also make: ideas; recommendations; identities; design of every kind, including motion design; videos; websites; apps, and platforms. So the answer is yes, but not only.

Officially, the creator of the .gif format came down on the side of “jif.” But in reality, it depends. In the USA, it’s like, “gyif.” It made us smile hearing “Dadagyif,” but we pronounce it with the “j” sound. There is one thing we’ll never give in on: we say, “ZE wee fee,” not “WhyFi.” Period.

Internet is a long love story for us. We love it so much we made a sweatshirt for it (out of stock), three tote bags (get the latest one soon) badges (available in the shop here), flags. Internet is life. Internet is good company.

In the 11th arrondissement (in a neighborhood with plenty of places to get coffee, lunch or buy books and posters.)

All of our job postings are here. At the moment we’re looking for an office manager. For internships, freelance work or spontaneous applications, write to jobs@datagif.fr. We’ll try an answer all the mail we get. Sometimes we get an awful lot, which is great, but that means we might not answer each individual note — sorry about that.

Datagif has been around since 2010, so we’re celebrating 10 years in 2020! Gaëtan Duchateau and Florent Guerlain are the founders and co-directors. Datagif has been a completely independent agency from the start. The team has grown over the years and comprises about a dozen creative people with complimentary skills.

Yes, of course.

The idea is to change the way we think about projects in an effort to reduce their carbon footprint. We’re not going to start a revolution with just a few clicks, but we do intend to shake up a few habits … We can now propose small changes in our approach that can make a project more responsible — so that servers use less energy when running clients’ websites or applications, for example.

One of the goals we had in creating Datagif was to overcome the “profitability-first” constraint, in favor of “creativity-first.” How can you evolve or find new ideas without pulling your head out of client briefs from time to time? It’s our way of getting some fresh air, without always running everything through the mill of accounting.

To be frank, the more our clients differ from one another, the more we like it. We love gaining new expertise and knowledge; we don’t like reproducing the same thing on an assembly line.

Media is awesome. It’s where pure information emanates and circulates — where readers take it on board, remix it and propagate it … It’s all about uncovering challenges of readability, attention, monitization — things we can apply to our non-media projects as well.

Yes.

A few times a year, we hold an evening event where, along with a client, we present a project. The idea is to describe the methodology of the project, its results, and approaches we abandoned, with direct feedback from the client of course. These events are open to anyone who wants to sign up.

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We put together an estimate based on the number of person-hours we think it will take to build the site to the client’s specifications. If needed, we ask questions (we love asking questions) to better define the scope of the project and give the most exact estimation possible, given how much time it will take to do the project correctly. If the project is still a bit fuzzy around the edges, we can start with a mission aimed at sharpening it up.

It’s been known to happen, yes, but we try not to spend our time putting together bids. Sometimes it’s obligatory, if we want to work on an attractive project in the public domaine, for example. But for a boutique agency, responding to requests for proposals is not a super profitable exercise. We much prefer starting a discussion with a prospect well ahead of a project, and beginning a collaboration that’s based more on confidence.

28 seconds ? Ok.