Say hello to the all new Diesdas brand and website — We have been teasing our new brand for a long time already. A blurry logo here, some colours there and yet we took our time before revealing everything to the public. Creating our new brand was and still is one of the toughest jobs an agency can do. Because you…

The launch of the #everynamecounts indexing tool — our contribution to Arolsen Archives mission to build a digital monument to those persecuted by the Nazi regime — got us thinking about digital activism. As we see from the participation of more than 90,000 volunteers globally who give their time, energy…

Writing the new chapter — This is the end Hold your breath and count to ten Reading this, you immediately hear one of the best Bond theme songs of all time in your ear. We’re talking about Adele’s Skyfall, of course. In the film, James Bond experiences a debacle on his first mission and is…

Why am I doing this? Hi! I’m Laura, the new Social Media & Community Specialist here at Diesdas. I started a few months ago and am now excited to bring our external communications back to life. A job that revealed itself to be more challenging than expected. I thought it would be easy to start…

At diesdas.digital, we believe in the power of education and the importance of equitable opportunities for all (#SDG4). Making education more accessible, by a simple phone call. This is what we achieved with our project Educast and its pilot program 3 Minutes Tutor by PRATYeK. From a big ambition… In Spring 2021, we started…

Diesdas has been around for over half a decade. When we started the agency we didn’t know whether the world needed another digital agency but we gave it our best shot. Now we’re ~30 people, building digital products for brands and companies big and small that literally reach millions of…

It’s the end of the year already? When did that happen? — Hello! I’ve written quite a few of these yearly recaps (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020) over the company’s lifespan, but this year was harder than any of those others before. The last 12 months went by in the blink of an eye, yet 2020 feels long ago. We did a…

Nowadays text-to-speech engines like Google WaveNet work impressively well, but they’re still not without flaws. Here is what we do to get the automatic readout of ZEIT ONLINE’s articles sounding more human-like. — Imagine the sentence Leonhard Fuchs was seen onboard a Boeing 737 by DER Touristik on his way to attend the 25. Christmas dinner in the city of Merseburg, Germany. being read to you like this:

We’re into the final month of our 4-day workweek experiment and we thought it’s time to finally share how it’s going so far. — We started our 4-day workweek back in July (read here how we’re implementing this exactly) and now moved into the final month of this three months experiment. Are we enjoying this time? Of course! Are we sad to see it leave? Most definitely! Throughout this time many of us gave…