Studenti

Studenti, Mondadori Media’s leading educational brand in Italy with 3.8 million unique visitors per month (source: Audiweb, January 2025), has reinvented itself. In addition to a new graphic design, it has launched Gaia, the first web-integrated artificial intelligence tool dedicated to education.

Studenti opens the door to artificial intelligence

The mission of Studenti is to support young people in school through three fundamental pillars: study tools, orientation, and training.

With Gaia, Studenti helps users study, inform themselves, learn about topics in depth, and create notes such as concept maps, diagrams and handouts that meet specific, personal needs with the help of artificial intelligence in a safe and secure environment.

The Studenti AI tool will also support young people as a tutor and help them in their choice of studies in high school and beyond. Students will find help with complex topics without being overwhelmed by information overload, with suggestions customised to their needs based on the potential of conversational content. Students will find help organising topics and making choices, as well as operational support (in terms of reasoning on the content and its representation), cognitive support (favouring ways to access concepts and assimilate them), and emotional support (Gaia’s human interface will help to create a comfortable study and orientation environment).

• Hybrid Content

Studenti will place artificial intelligence at the service of users within a certified safe place, where technology and content are controlled, reliable, and designed to support study and orientation. In this safe space, students can access advanced features such as hybrid content, that is, traditional content integrated with advanced digital tools designed to simplify and enhance their studies. With this approach, students can turn complex texts into clear summaries, visual diagrams, and dynamic concept maps. In addition, they can create custom study plans, listen to summary podcasts, and find quick answers through smart searches. The result is a new, flexible way of learning that adapts to the needs of each student.

• University Orientation Hub for Choosing Advanced Studies

At a time when selecting the most suitable university programme is increasingly challenging due to the many choices available, Studenti aims to provide tools to handle this complexity effectively.

The first step is a university orientation test administered by a psychologist. This is followed by the “Cerca Corsi (Search Programmes)” search engine, which is linked directly to official Ministry of Education data, helping students navigate the sea of university courses quickly and easily and allowing them to explore all the university programmes on offer. Each of the 5,800 degree programmes covered in the search is presented with comprehensive, certified information.

The orientation hub also includes:

• over 300 orientation guides;
• psychological aptitude tests developed with (and certified by) the brand’s psychologists;
• information on Open Days throughout Italy;
• tips and tools for nonresidential students in Italy and abroad;
• test preparation for departments and limited programmes;
• overviews and suggestions on the careers of the future.

A new visual identity

Studenti presents a new visual identity starting with its logo, which is more versatile and recognisable on all platforms for greater user engagement. The new Studenti also organises content in an innovative way to facilitate navigation between different sections of the site. More welcoming and transparent visuals make the content more usable, familiar, and easier to memorise, with colours and a user interface inspired by study tools (such as post-its and underlining), thus adding more value and making the quality and quantity of the content clearer and more intuitive.

New aspects include enhancement of the TikTok channel, the main social media network where the brand reaches its community of over 900,000 followers and 55 million video views per year. On this platform, the younger generations favourite one, Studenti addresses topics such as orientation, student news, scholarships, and studies abroad using clear language and a fresh tone of voice. Also playing a prominent role are numerous posts dedicated to mental wellness, sexual/affective education, and financial education.

The star of the videos is creator Esmeralda Moretti: a social media presence, TV presenter, radio speaker, and new face of the brand on its TikTok and YouTube accounts. In continuous interaction with the community, Esmeralda stimulates and guides students with advice, interactive quizzes, interviews with experts, surveys, and in-depth discussions on current issues, not only related to education.

Opportunities for partners

The new features of Studenti also introduce multiple commercial opportunities for potential investors through a wide range of diversified branded content and sponsoring solutions for the Gaia tool and Search Programmes. With Studenti, partners can also create themed paths and dedicated hubs according to the season and most important moments for students and their families throughout the year (secondary school orientation from November to January, university orientation from January to October, secondary school graduation from April to June, study abroad from June to August, and back to school in September and October). Focused branded partnerships can therefore potentially begin at any time of year.

Studenti is Mondadori Group’s leading digital brand in Italy in education, with 3.8 million users (source: Audiweb – January 2025). It is a point of reference for younger generations at school, not only due to its dynamic and constantly evolving editorials featuring innovative language and content. This formula has allowed Studenti to reach over 1 million followers on social networks – including TikTok, YouTube, and WhatsApp – where students can access guides and tutorials to prepare for exams, receive support to orient themselves in their educational and professional future, and find resources to make the most of their experience as students, in every aspect, including personal wellness.

Studenti è il brand del Gruppo Mondadori leader in Italia sul digitale nella categoria education, con 3,8 milioni di utenti (fonte Audiweb – gennaio 2025). È un punto di riferimento per le New Gen a scuola, ma non solo, grazie a un’offerta editoriale dinamica e in continua evoluzione, caratterizzata da linguaggi e contenuti innovativi: una formula che ha permesso a Studenti di raggiungere oltre 1 milione di follower sui social – tra TikTok, YouTube e WhatsApp – dove gli studenti possono accedere a guide e tutorial per prepararsi agli esami, ricevere supporto per orientarsi nel loro futuro scolastico e professionale e trovare risorse per vivere al meglio la loro esperienza di studenti, sotto ogni aspetto, incluso il benessere personale.

Studenti, the Mondadori Group’s standard-setting community for Gen Z at school has recorded some extraordinary numbers on the website, for the 2023 Italian high school diploma exams, with a total of 5 million sessions (source: Google Analytics), whilst on social media particularly on TikTok where the brand’s special videos for the exam recorded 13 million video views, up 300% compared to 2022 (source: Iconosquare).

This success has been achieved thanks to important new products: the Studenti.it website has been refreshed with a new logo and a new look  alongside a host of improvements to more efficiently use the huge amount of resources available online from social media and mobile devices. School leavers could access the thousands of resources available and more easily combine the content with searches for more detailed information, summaries, concept maps and even podcasts, available on all of the major audio platforms (Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spreaker) and video lessons on the StudentiTV channel on YouTube.

In addition, according to tradition, news about the exam was covered in real time during the days on which the first two written tests were held (June 21-22) through a real live broadcast.

EDUTAINMENT PROTAGONIST ON SOCIALS

For the 2023 Italian high school diploma exams, Studenti played a key role on Gen Z’s favourite social networks: TikTok, for last-minute tips and revision, and Telegram, with a dedicated channel “Maturità 2023” (High school diploma exams 2023) designed to provide real-time support. Studenti has remained true to its purpose of providing support for study, focusing the TikTok channel videos on Edutainment, highlighting its leadership role with the hashtag #imparacontiktok and using fresh, easy-to-understand language.

Resources on TikTok focused on the most interesting topics for the school leavers’ exam and revision. A host of themed videos were produced in collaboration with edu-creators who are already linked to the brand, such as the communicator @scienzaedintorni, ambassador @emanuele_bosi, study coach @letismind, English teacher @antonioparlati and some new entries such as @scescience, the Physics student who engages girls in STEM subjects and @emmalaprofditaliano who shares rules and curiosities about Italian language. The young creators from Studenti want their videos and messages to be genuinely helpful and to be role models and reference points for teenagers too.

COLLABORATION WITH McDONALD’S

For the 2023 high school diploma exams, Studenti entered into a prestigious partnership with McDonald’s, which chose the special project “Road to the exams, good luck to all high school leavers” from the branded content solutions put forward. As the school exams coincided with the launch of #Summerdays from McDonald’s – from 5 to 30 June, with a special offer daily on the app – 5 creators from Studenti designed and produced TikTok videos with useful tips for the final days of exam preparation: “Three tips for the Italian exam”, “The importance of taking a break from studying”, “Avoid these mistakes when preparing for the high school diploma exams”, “The 3 most incredible mistakes in the history of the Italian high school final exam”, and “How to revise when time is tight”. At the end of each video, the creators provided followers with one more piece of advice: relax with a break at McDonald’s, enjoying the app offer of the day. The project was developed in cooperation with Fuse, the specialist branded entertainment unit of the OMG Group.

BACK-TO-SCHOOL TIME

Studenti’s  commitment to supporting its young users and followers does not end with the Italian high school diploma exams but continues throughout the summer with news on the new procedures for the medicine test, post-diploma guidance, and content to help cope with holiday homework.

Branded Content proposals also continue: for  Back To School Studenti, in collaboration with Brand On, a project division of Mediamond, offers innovative and high-engagement partnership formats for the market, with a focus on good intentions for the return to school to engage students, families and professors with issues that also play an increasingly important role as school. These issues will be examined and explained by Studentithrough online surveys, articles, in-depth videos, and with the involvement of edu-creators on TikTok. They will target partners interested in aligning with values that are increasingly at the forefront of GenZ’s priorities such as inclusion, environmental sustainability, mental health, and rapid access to the world of work.

With the 2023 graduate exam, 470,000 students will return to the traditional pre-pandemic exam, with the first and second national written exams and an oral interview. On the other hand, there’s an ad-hoc exam for students from the flooded areas of Emilia-Romagna and Marche.

WHO WILL BE THE AUTHORS FOR THE ITALIAN TOPIC?

Studenti.it – a leader for Gen-Z at school – asked this in a survey of 5,600 girls and boys who responded by making predictions based on the 2023 anniversaries, including the 150 years since the death of Alessandro Manzoni, the 100 years since the birth of Italo Calvino and the 160 years since the birth of Gabriele D’Annunzio.

The anniversaries for these three authors and their importance in the literary landscape put them on top of being the “most likely” topic for the first test for 33% of respondents. 27% expect it to be on Manzoni, 18% on Calvino, while 17% predict D’Annunzio. For the remaining 5% a track will come out on another literary great author, like Italo Svevo (100 years after the publication of Zeno’s Conscience), but there are also chances for Primo Levi, Giuseppe Ungaretti and Luigi Pirandello.

AN ESSAY ABOUT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND CHAT GPT?

Among the students’ other predictions there is a possible track on artificial intelligence. 76% of respondents consider it very likely against 24% who believe it may be unlikely, because it’s too obvious.

TYPE OF TRACK: THE ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY IS THE HIGHLY-RATED

Among the different types of tracks that students will find in the first test, the one that is currently receiving the highest rating (39%) is type B: the artistic, literary, historical, philosophical, scientific, technological, economic or social argumentative essay. However, 36% of the graduates are opting for the type C, an essay on a current topic, while analysing the text of poems or prose – type A – has been chosen by 25% of the graduates.

THE EXAM IN A WORD

The graduate exam is… Studenti.it also asked the 5,600 students in the survey to describe their feelings about the exam in one word. The most cited ones were: anxiety, stressful, panic, hell, liberating, impossible, complicated…but, fortunately, they also cited…growth, goal, important, exciting, beautiful…

Studenti.it
Studenti is the Mondadori Group brand leader in Italy for the digital market in the education category, with 4 million users (source Audiweb). It is a leader for Gen-Z at school, thanks to a dynamic and constantly evolving editorial offer, characterised by innovative languages and content and a team of young creators: a formula that has allowed Studenti to reach over 1.3 million followers on social media (Source Shareablee and social insights), on TikTok – where it is followed by 640 thousand users – Facebook, Telegram and on YouTube (StudentiTV) where students access guides and tutorials to prepare for exams.

Mondadori Media, Italy’s leading multimedia publisher with 55.5 million fans on social networks, has signed a partnership with Twitter to join the Twitter Amplify program, which allows the possibility to amplify and promote video contents on the platform, reaching an even wider audience.

The agreement involves the Twitter accounts of the Mondadori Media brands Giallozafferano, MyPersonalTrainer, TheWom, Smartworld, Focus, NostroFiglio and Studenti, which are real points of reference in vertical segments linked to the passions of Italians – from cooking to wellness, from technology to science and training – with 1.6 million followers overall.

The partnership highlights the strength of Mondadori Media, chosen as an important partner to get in touch with valuable audiences through innovative content, relying on consolidated know-how in the production of videos for social media: an area in which Mondadori Media has already strong experience and leadership, thanks to an internal team dedicated to the co-production of editorial content with partner brands and successful special projects.

Thanks to this agreement, Mondadori Media and Twitter will offer partner companies the possibility of inserting pre-roll advertising videos, before the contents published by the Mondadori Media brands.

Mondadori Media will further expand the development of branded content social projects and initiatives on Twitter. This will extend the opportunities for companies and investors interested in reaching new audiences based on their needs and in an authoritative, transparent and highly interactive context thanks to the involvement of the Mondadori Media brand communities, making advertising communication ever more effective.

What will it be like going back to classes? 83.7% of the students who responded to a Studenti.it, survey say that they are concerned. In fact, of these, 41% think that everything will be more complicated in September while the remaining 42.7% are uncertain what will happen.

The biggest concern is about the health aspect: 45% wonder whether it will be safe to return to school, while a small percentage (8%) is worried that they will not be able to catch up with the syllabus. For  30% of those interviewd by Studenti.it lessons should have started up again before 14 September, in order to recoup what has been lost during the health emergency.

On the side of Italian students for more than 20 years, Studenti.it is preparing to go back to school and accompany kids as they make their return also by responding to their most frequent questions: How will we re-start? How will entrance tests be managed? How will we get to school and how will our habits have to change? Up-to-date editorial coverage will be available on the site, with a back to school special, everything new in the school calendar, as well as advice and suggestions for the choosing a university, with dedicated formats such as the new orientation podcasts and the Facebook group for the medical school entrance test. There will, of course, also be weekly surveys to have a picture of what students are feeling and their expectations for lessons, plus a new schedule of live social media events “Tg Scuola“.

During the health emergency, with lesson suspended across the whole of Italy, digital became essential for students, teachers and parents. In response, Studenti.it increased and expanded its offer with an enormous quantity of free content and constantly available didactic resources, such as video lessons with study tips, a series of  podcasts “Studenti Explains”, a new way of exploiting online notes that reached  100,000 listeners per month and live social events with experts and YouTubers.

All of which has led – for the Mondadori Brand – to a  30% increase in the site’s traffic compared with last year (Source: Google Analytics, average March-April-May), arriving, in the month of April, a month of total lockdown, to 5 million unique users, +34% compared with April 2019 (Source: Total Audience April 2020), and an increase of 50% in views on the YouTube channel compared with the same period of last year.

Studenti, the web site by Banzai Media (Mondadori Group) market leader in the student segment 4.7 million unique users per month (Audiweb, May 2016), is now online in an innovative version completely dedicated to study support: with improved functionality and a new look, the new Studenti is characterised by  mobile first usability.

The new release was conceived to make it easier to use and easier to find the most useful and relevant content for study topics: the offer has been divided by areas of interest and, in turn, rigorously split into subjects and topics, with special attention to the most frequently searched items.

“The mission of Studenti has always been to help students with their school work and to pass their exams, as well as orient themselves in their post-diploma choices. Thanks to this new release, Studenti strengthens its value proposition, becoming even more useful and focusing on innovative content and services,” declared Andrea Santagata, the Mondadori Group’s deputy general manager of Magazines Italy.

“The world of young people and millennials is a premium target for our advertisers and in the publishing context Studenti is a natural choice for them. With this new release we will also increase users’ participation and involvement; in fact native formats and engagement are among the property’s driving elements in its aim to be mobile first in terms of day to day use,” underlined Davide Mondo, chief executive of Mediamond.

An update and re-invigorated editorial offer

Within each subject, students can identify the most relevant didactic issues. The new organisation of the content also makes it possible to  look at the subjects in different levels of detail: advanced filters and related allow users to highlight a range of important conceptual connections.

In addition to the didactic content of Studenti, traditionally made up of notes, thousands of previously prepared mini-dissertations, a rich selection of video-lessons and a series of interactive modules specifically for the teaching of mathematics for high school students, is a range of new quality content. In fact the editorial content of Studenti has been enhanced with contributions from graduate students and university professors with the aim of providing students with exhaustive and accurate materials: background notes by teachers have been gathered together in structured and indexed files including summaries, glossaries and margin notes, in order to give an even better study experience.

The offer is completed with study guides and a range of interactive tests: those for orientation and matriculation, as well as simulations of multiple choice tests and exams in various subjects.

Thanks to responsive graphics, the new Studenti is easy to use on both a PC or a mobile device, effectively supporting students in a range of different situations.

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