Student-built media label · Est. 2025

We put
the campus
on record.

Podcasts, debates, comedy — six shows under one label, built from scratch at AUBG, with a second node already live in Plovdiv. No faculty brief, no template. Students who wanted better media and made it.

Six showsTwo citiesOne label

Six shows.
One frequency.

Each one runs under its own lead, in its own color, at its own pace. The label is the thread.

01
Live

Yapping Americano

The founding show. Weekly interviews with students, professors, and the people who run the place — unfiltered, occasionally too honest for comfort. Everything else grew out of this room.

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02
S4

Debate Americano

Structured debates and panels with real stakes. Positions defended in the open — not in comment sections.

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03
S4

Laughing Americano

Live comedy — open mics, quiz nights, shows worth leaving your dorm for. The loudest room on campus, and the lowest-barrier door into the label.

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04
S4

Business Americano

Founders, operators, students building companies between lectures. Conversations with people who ship, not people who talk about shipping.

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05
S4

Anyone's Mic

An independent creator's show published under the Americano umbrella — his voice, his call. The blueprint for how creators join the label without dissolving into it.

Launching Season 4
06
Node

Angliiskata Govori

Born independently at the English Language School in Plovdiv and run entirely by its students, it was already publishing before it joined Americano — 400+ YouTube subscribers, 1,000 on TikTok, single videos clearing 20K views. Our first node outside AUBG.

Plovdiv node · live
Nobody was going to hand students a media label. So we set up the cameras and started acting like one — until it was true.

Savelii Timokhov · Founder, Americano

Read this
before applying.

You'll fit if —
  • You have a point of view and want a mic that reaches past your group chat
  • You'd rather build the thing than watch someone else run it
  • You hold your work to a standard nobody asked for
  • The idea pays you before the money does
  • You're anywhere in Eastern Europe and want in
You won't if —
  • You want a CV line, not a call sheet
  • You need someone assigning your next move
  • You hear "student media" and quietly lower the bar
  • You're shopping for a social club that happens to own a camera

Bigger than
one campus.

Three seasons out — here's what students, guests, and partners are stepping into.

01
Six shows on air

Season 4 puts the full lineup on screen across Blagoevgrad and Plovdiv. For sponsors, that's audiences who watch to the end. For students, it's a working production to plug into — not a promise of one.

02
Shows you can attend

Ticketed comedy nights. Debate tournaments with real audiences. Production services for organisations that want this quality without building a media team of their own.

03
A label in every university town

The Plovdiv node showed the model travels. Next come student-run Americano nodes across Eastern Europe — same standard, local voices. Partners who join now are in the story from the start.

Own a piece
of the thing.

Americano doesn't hand out titles. Every show is run by the person who wanted it most — the lead owns it top to bottom, and that ownership is why the work actually gets done. People who own something protect it.

No experience required. No paycheck yet, either. Bring ownership — we'll teach the rest.

Video editor Videographer Event organiser Writer Show host Social media Graphic designer

Questions,
answered.

Do I need to be a student? +

No. Americano started at AUBG, but it isn't locked to a campus — the Plovdiv node proves that. If you're young, driven, and have something to contribute, apply from wherever you are.

Is this paid work? +

Not yet. Season 4 runs on people who want the thing to exist. Season 5 introduces event and production revenue — and the people who built the machine will be first in line when it pays. Ground floor, not charity.

I've never been on camera. Can I still apply? +

Yes. Most roles never face a lens — editing, writing, organising, design, social media. For on-camera roles, a point of view matters more than polish. Polish is teachable.

What's the time commitment? +

Depends what you take on. Show leads own their vertical — that's real hours. Operators commit to their show's rhythm. Either way, you'll know exactly what's expected before you say yes to anything.

Can I pitch a show? +

Yes — put it in your application. New formats happen when the right person shows up already attached to one. Dating Americano is still waiting for its lead.

I want to sponsor Americano. +

Use the form below or email yappingamericano@gmail.com directly. We work with businesses and brands that want young, engaged audiences in Bulgaria and beyond — every partnership is scoped per vertical and per season.

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with us.

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