Winter 2025 Edition
Simbound Masters Winter 2025

The Winners of the Simbound Digital Marketing Competition - Winter 25 Edition

Winners Announced

What an absolutely phenomenal effort from everyone! We're thrilled to finally announce the winners. Huge congratulations to you all! 🎉

12 Countries 4 Modules 126 Students
Top 3

Meet the Champions

These Finalists emerged from a field of 120+ global participants

Nicoleta Ștefănică
2nd Place

Nicoleta Ștefănică

A great performance that created a superb future outlook of their virtual company

222,457
Andreea Murariu
1st Place

Andreea Murariu

An amazing performance signaling precision and efficiency.

€247,443
Iulia Pentek
3rd Place

Iulia Pentek

The best all-rounder with focus on sustainability

178,086
Final Standings

Full Leaderboard

The complete top 5 rankings after 4 modules. Scores reflect cumulative performance across WEB, SEA, E-mail and Community.

Rank Team Total Net Profit
1 Andreea Lăuș €247,443
2 Nicoleta Ștefănică €222,457
3 Corina Nedelea €217,881
4 Diana Halmageanu €209,868
5 Mircea Munteanu €187,383
Winner Stories

What the winners are saying

“Taking part in the Simbound marketing competition was a very valuable experience. Over the 10 days and 5 rounds, I had the opportunity to build and optimize a complete marketing strategy from website creation to SEA, email campaigns, and community management. The continuous feedback provided by the platform made the process intuitive and helped me learn from each decision, while still leaving room for experimentation and strategic thinking. The competitive environment made every choice meaningful and pushed me to improve my performance at each stage. Overall, it was an engaging and effective way to learn digital marketing in a realistic but safe setting.”

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Andreea Lăuș
Overall Winner

“The Simbound competition was a truly rewarding experience, especially seeing how my decisions directly influenced results. It provided a hands-on understanding of how to manage multiple digital channels, use data to drive real business outcomes, and strengthen my analytical and strategic skills.”

Nicoleta Ștefănică
Innovation Prize

“Participating in Simbound was an intense strategic challenge that allowed me to test the limits of digital marketing in a competitive and extremely realistic environment. It's the ideal experience for anyone who wants to turn theory into tangible results and understand the complexity of decisions in a successful online business.”

IP
Iulia Pentek
Rising Star
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The Winter 2025 Digital Marketing Competition is now over. See you next time!

Simbound provided an engaging, hands-on competition environment for digital marketing students, professionals and passionates the world over with +120 participants having signed up.