TURNING CONTENT INTO GLOBAL COMMUNITIES
The Other 70%
Most YouTube service providers do 30% of the work and call it done. They optimise a title, upload a thumbnail, and move on, treating YouTube like a distribution pipe rather than what it actually is: a living ecosystem built on community, conversation, and trust.
The MCN model was designed for scale, not depth. As YouTube matured into the world's largest content economy, the companies built to serve it went the other direction, toward automation, templates, and compliance checklists. They solved for piracy protection and geo-restrictions, which matter. But they stopped there.
Nobody was solving for the audience relationship, the community architecture, the daily engagement that turns a channel from a content dump into a destination. We looked at that gap and saw our entire reason to exist.
The founders brought financial acumen and a technology-first mindset into an industry still running on analog instincts.
The result is a fundamentally different model: where a typical provider runs 6 activities behind every video, we run 40, from proprietary discovery intelligence and cross-promotion blueprints to real-time community engagement and revenue optimisation. No bots, no templates, no shortcuts.
When our series Kuma and Arafta entered a market dominated by established automated players, we achieved weekly-level revenue on a daily production format, built entirely on human-led strategy, in-house tools, and audiences that genuinely show up.
That is YouTube done the right way. And it is the standard we hold for every studio, rights holder, and creator who partners with us.
HOW WE WORK
Community at the Core
Everything we do starts with people. Our globally distributed team brings cultural fluency to every market we touch. Technology amplifies their judgment. Services deliver the results. Here's how it comes together.
Community & Audience Growth
This is our flagship, and our deepest investment. We transform passive viewership into engaged global communities around our clients' content. Not through bots or templates, but through culturally fluent, human-led engagement that builds audiences who stay, grow, and advocate.
Community building requires sustained human connection and creative judgment, the kind that understands why a comment in Turkish needs a different tone than one in Hindi. That's not something you automate. That's something you invest in, every single day.
Full-Stack Media Services
Channel management, international distribution, multilingual localisation, co-production support. Clients get the full content lifecycle from a single partner. No fragmented vendors. No handoff gaps.
Every engagement is run with the rigor of an enterprise operation, because that's how our founders built this company. Co-founded by leaders who have scaled enterprises, we bring process discipline, performance thresholds, and accountability to every client relationship.
Technology That Serves People
Our proprietary tools, from discovery intelligence and audience analytics to multi-market localisation, are built to amplify human judgment, not replace it. Developed in-house over 10+ years on our own performance data, they help our team identify opportunities, optimise at scale, and forecast with precision.
The technology is powerful. But the people directing it, the strategists who read the signals, the community managers who know when to engage and when to listen, the localisation experts who adapt for culture, not just language, that's what makes the difference.
THE FOUNDING STRENGTH
Leadership Team
Financial acumen and strategic vision on one side. Operational excellence and transformation expertise on the other. A company where every creative ambition is backed by disciplined execution.
Smita Agrawal
CEO & FOUNDER
Finance professional and CFA (ICFAI) with an MBA in Finance. Smita observed the media industry closely and identified the fundamental gap. Content owners needed a strategic growth partner, not just another distributor. She founded TRM to fill it. An active presence at MIPCOM and ATF, Smita drives TRM’s partnerships, client relationships, and growth strategy.
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Rinku Basu
COO & CO-FOUNDER
With 23+ years leading operations across health tech and technology, Rinku is the architect of TRM’s delivery engine. An INSEAD and SIBM alumna, she joined as co-founder after following TRM’s early trajectory, bringing the process discipline, institutional rigour, and scaling instincts that translate vision into consistent, enterprise-ready execution.
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Kiran Joshi
HEAD, CONTENT PARTNERSHIPS
Content strategy and digital media specialist with experience at GoQuest Media in content acquisition. Kiran leads creator onboarding and rights evaluation at TRM, identifying high-value content opportunities and building scalable partnerships. Her sharp editorial instincts and deep understanding of the digital landscape drive TRM’s monetization success.
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Whether you're a studio, creator, or content owner, let's talk about what's possible when the other 70% gets done right.
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