Boom:
- they still hate me for publishing the link (and secret plans) to their new website (waiting launch); boring blog with vintage posts (they are trying to kill me with posts like “the history of IT&C“);
- 44 new websites in their portfolio: automarket.ro, autof1.ro, afterhours.ro, mycredit.ro, trilulilu.ro, globber.ro, chip.ro, cinemagia.ro, program24.ro, eva.ro, mayra.ro, stiri24.ro, newstime.ro, event365.ro, topsanatate.ro, tolo.ro, blogdeliceu.ro, vochin.ro, level.ro, jocuri24.ro, jocuri-fun.ro, toplinks.ro, skiresorts.ro, gsp.ro, gsptv.ro, stelisti.ro, dinamovisti.ro, violamania.ro, craiovamaxima.ro, cfrmania.ro, mysport.ro, cfrmania.ro, echipafantastica.ro, dreamcup.ro, tricolori.ro, campionate.ro, ifotbal.ro, blogsport.ro, schiori.ro, pariori.ro, recursul.ro, usmedia.ro, muzicabuna.ro, muzica9.ro;
+ 3 other websites lifestyle/jobs they are keeping secret (don’t know why);
- they say they have 190 websites in their portfolio and 40-45% of the Romanian Internet advertising market;
ARBOmedia:
- they still hate me for publishing my thoughts on hi5 (dangerous content) – they still don’t know about my presence in a TV show on national television talking about some… internal affairs; Calin still hates me because of this photo but I’m not worried since he hates almost everyone in my messenger list; Tavi also hates me and thinks I’m “low” but again I’m not worried since sometimes he gets “high” 
- online planning training with the agencies – poor organization because they didn’t expect planners to come in such big number; over 1 hour delayed; some young members of the team still don’t have any idea about their job (or they have a certain fear when speaking in public) 
- without a doubt, Calin is the most important and experienced person in the online department – if he gets sick or decides to leave (I’m not saying anything), ARBOinteractive will be out of order; the funny thing is that I still like him (although he hates me – see above) and I really hope that some day he’ll have the right job;
- 2nd red signal from agencies: they organized a trip in the mountains but they had quite a few empty rooms; maybe it’s just me but I have the feeling that many people in the agencies avoid working with them mainly because of so many new guys in such a short notice; another sad thing is that 2 of the employees already updated their CVs on a jobbing website so I’m thinking they are not there to stay… or to sacrifice working after hours
- hi5.com in their portfolio (CAPITAL says exclusive representation); they invested quite a lot in promoting this website and we’ll just have to see if it was money well spent;
AdEvolution:
- they might hate me but I have no idea why (I have this effect on people);
- Realitatea Catavencu (one of Romania’s largest media groups) signed a new contract with them – I would stress the fact that this is a partnership (as Sorel Radu said) and Realitatea will still have a focus on sales; websites migrated from Boom;
- they say they have 148 websites in their portfolio and 35% of the Romanian Internet advertising market;
MPI:
- Orlando hates me because he thinks I write only positive posts about Boom… well, people hate me for all kind of weird reasons so I got used to it;
- Conquiztador.ro became no.1 in Trafic.ro – they still know how to exploit the PR potential trafic.ro has; I’m glad that finally a cultural/educational website became no.1 in Romania and above football/tabloids;
- here are some statistics that made me think (available in their portfolio): education – university degree (56%); age 20-35 yrs. (69%), 36-45 (16%), gender F (48%), M (52%); 51% married; 32% work in IT&C; 30% in FMCG); 9% in Administration and 18% in finance/banking (18%); hmmm? Really weird audience – I bet 57% want to purchase a motorcycle this year
- they say they have 38 websites in their portfolio (news and lifestyle) – click here to download rate-card;
- although they pay and have the BRAT audit, they still use trafic.ro as reference (here is something to think about – for some PR guys at the 2nd floor 
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Conclusion: I always thought I was a lovable person. I was wrong. If a blog can be a good idea for personal branding, my blog is a good example about how “not to do this”
Definiton: Hate is a term for the MMORPG internal measure of how much a non-playing character (NPC) wants to target a playing character (PC). The game keeps track of several quantities in calculating hate | more on wikipedia
Game on!
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