Posts tagged with:romania

On December 11 2016, Romania had parliamentary elections. Our political system works like this: the party with most elect senators and deputats propose someone to be the Prime Minister to the President, who says yes or no. If it’s a yes, that person forms the Cabinet and starts ruling. So, PSD (Social Democrat Party) won 45%, they enlisted […]

They were in Brașov last week and loved the city. They had some rain and some problems with the buses, but overall were spot on the city. Their four videos on Brașov are listed below and their trip to Romania is ongoing, so watch the channel: Ep. 45: Why is THIS famous again? Rope Street, […]

Other than spam, there are quite a few legitimate advertising inquiries regarding my Romanian blog, zoso.ro, by international advertisers. And there are problems: the broken english. not a good impression on a first email when your wording and writing are poorer than mine. screams bad professionalism. lack of minimal research 1. because Romania is a poor […]

These days, a media trust fights eviction, but they don’t fight just that. “Intact” fights the state, the politicians and common sense.   A little bit of history Intact Media Trust was founded by Dan Voiculescu, a businessman emerged from the old Securitate. In his autobiography, we find two interesting facts about his wealth: he […]

Former Managing Director of Boom advertising company (part of NCH Group) is the new Manager of Madhouse mobile advertising agency. So nice. Boom went bankrupt in 2009, following a disastrous management by Petriceanu and the sales team (Magda Zander and Gabriel Boacă, their favorite saying was “whatever money somebody elses gives you, we can go […]

I’ve had my eyes on a Subaru Forester for a few years now. I totally hate the new models, the third and forth generation look more like every other SUV on the market as Subaru needed to appeal to people thinking the Forester is a station wagon. The strategy worked, and Subaru is a top […]

Three years ago, on the “How To Web” conference website, Raluca Georgescu, a former secretary and beauty editor for a local women’s’ site, was presented as the creator of “one of the most important local entertainment websites”, an obvious lie to anyone who knew the Romanian internet. After I published that on my blog, they […]

Companies from Romania are paying great attention to Social Media, that translates into money from content and counseling. Which is great. There have been more money spent in Social Media in 2013 than in 2011 and 2012 combined, or so I feel.

The year started really good. There are a few directions I have noticed going on: Companies moving away from the “like and share” model, as they find out likes do not translate into sales. The smart ones (Coca Cola, Milka) started experimenting with content created for social media. Companies still chasing the like and share […]

This article is not new. But is very useful in pointing out how and what journalism has became. And in Romania also, don’t think we are special. We got AdPlayers.ro, an advertising blog, who charge 5.000€ a year for listing a company on their directory and bashes companies and people who do not subscribe. I […]