Enosh Simpson
Co-Founder, Co-Host & Producer
Runs a digital marketing agency, places executives in Europe's clean energy sector, and somehow still finds time to co-host a podcast. Overcommitted by design.
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The Show
Long-form. Unscripted.
Unmissable.
From the Island LK is where ministers, generals, CEOs, diplomats, and international experts sit down for unfiltered conversations about Sri Lanka and the world. No talking points. No PR spin. Just the real stuff, recorded weekly in Colombo.
1 episodeevery week
60–120 minper conversation
5 platformsYouTube · IG · FB · TikTok · X
Who's been on the show
↗Erik Solheim
Former Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations
From secret peace negotiations to meeting Prabhakaran multiple times, a rare candid account of the end of Sri Lanka's civil war and its global geopolitical reverberations.
↗Dr. Asanga Abeyagoonasekera
Former Director General, Institute of National Security Studies
Sri Lanka's national security in a multipolar world, geopolitical strategy, China-India-US tensions, and why the island's location makes it a permanent flashpoint.
↗Minister Ravi Karunanayake
Former Minister of Finance, Energy & Foreign Affairs, Sri Lanka
A veteran Finance Minister explains why the economy feels worse despite the 'recovery' narrative, and what's really holding Sri Lanka back from a sustainable future.
↗Dr. Harsha De Silva
Deputy Leader, Main Opposition Party & Chair, Parliamentary Finance Committee
Standing up for economic truth in Parliament isn't always popular. Dr. Harsha De Silva on fiscal accountability, the IMF programme, and what real recovery looks like.
↗Dr. Joanna Siekiera
Hybrid Warfare Specialist, NATO
A NATO consultant breaks down hybrid warfare, disinformation, and how small island nations like Sri Lanka sit at the centre of great-power competition.
↗Kaushali Kusumupala
Former Managing Director, Coca-Cola Sri Lanka
From becoming Coca-Cola Sri Lanka's first female director to coaching women leaders, the parts of success that nobody talks about, and building purpose-led brands.
↗Dr. Suren Raghavan
Former Governor of the Northern Province, Sri Lanka
The Northern Province 15 years after the war, reconciliation, development, political trust, and what genuine post-conflict governance looks like on the ground.
↗Roy Ratnavel
Author, The Prisoner's Dilemma
In this deeply human episode, Roy Ratnavel shares the story behind his bestselling memoir, surviving Sri Lanka's civil war, building a life in Canada, and the weight of memory.
↗Santosh Menon
President, India-Lanka Business Association
How India and Sri Lanka's business relationship really works, trade corridors, investment flows, and the untapped bilateral potential that most people aren't talking about.
↗James Thompson
Internationally Renowned Agricultural Expert
Can Sri Lanka grow food for the future? A global agri-advisor on the island's agricultural crisis, organic farming's real cost, and what food security demands.
"These are the conversations that get shared in boardrooms and dinner parties, and the audience that follows them reflects exactly that."
The team behind it
Shanil Dutta
Co-Founder, Co-Host & Producer
Geopolitical consultant and founder of his own research agency, Shanil spends his days mapping power shifts across the Indo-Pacific and his evenings making sure those conversations reach the people who need to hear them. Alarming levels of geopolitical trivia.
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Rohan Wijesundara
Investor & Co-Founder
The person in the room who's already thought three steps ahead. Quietly backs the show so the other two can make noise.
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Sadiyah Reyal
Co-Host
Studies Sri Lankan law, qualified mediator, works in human rights, and has read more policy documents than both Shanil and Enosh combined. Asks the questions guests don't see coming, keeps the conversation honest, and tells Shanil and Enosh when they're being dumb. Regularly.
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Peter Sjögren
Legal Consultant
Keeps the show on the right side of the law. Probably the only person on the team who actually reads the contracts.
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Maduranga Deeshan
Head of Production & Camera Ops
The reason everything looks good on screen. If the lighting is perfect and the audio is clean, that's him. If it isn't, he'll fix it before you notice.
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Growth by Zephra Digital
Every view, subscriber, and follower you see in the analytics is the result of a deliberate strategy. Zephra Digital handles the full growth engine behind From the Island, from video editing and short-form content production to platform-specific growth strategy, YouTube optimisation, community management, and social media execution across all five channels. This isn't outsourced. It's built in.
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Video Editing & Production
Full episode editing + short-form clips for every platform
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Growth Strategy
Platform-specific strategies for YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook & LinkedIn
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Community Management
Audience engagement, comments, DMs and channel moderation
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The Numbers
Real data. No fluff.
Every screenshot is pulled directly from our dashboards, unedited, unfiltered. What you see is what we deliver.
Screenshots captured directly from platform dashboards · No edits
100% Organic
Every follower. Every view.
Zero paid ads.
Not a single rupee has been spent on paid promotion, boosted posts, or advertising across any platform. Every subscriber, every view, and every follower you see in the data below was earned entirely through content quality and organic reach. That's what real audience trust looks like.
Your Advantage as a Sponsor
We'll put ad spend
behind your episodes.
For sponsored episodes, we allocate a dedicated paid promotion budget to amplify reach beyond our organic baseline. Your brand doesn't just get our existing audience, it gets actively pushed in front of new, targeted viewers across our platforms. Organic foundation. Paid acceleration. For your brand.
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The Audience
Not just followers,
principals.
Senior, educated, and high-intent. Our audience doesn't passively consume, they share episodes in professional settings, reference conversations in meetings, and act on what they hear. Reach them here, before your competitors do.
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C-suite & Founders
Senior executives and CEOs across Sri Lanka's private sector, watching for strategic insight, not entertainment.
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Policymakers
Government professionals who follow our guests and engage with the show as a policy platform.
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The Diaspora
High-earning Sri Lankans in the UK, Australia, UAE, Canada, and the US, professionally successful and connected to home.
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Indo-Pacific Watchers
Internationally-minded professionals drawn to South Asian geopolitics, investment trends, and big ideas.
By Platform
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Instagram & TikTokYoung professionals, 25–38
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Facebook & LinkedInSenior executives & established leaders, 40+
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YouTube & XAll ages, highest watch time & engagement
Why it matters for your industry
Tech & SaaS
Your brand in the room where Sri Lanka's digital future gets debated. Our audience builds companies, adopts tools, and makes procurement decisions.
Hospitality
Reach the diaspora who travel home regularly + local executives who travel for business. Premium audience, premium content, premium positioning.
Education
Our audience invests in education, for themselves and their families. They trust this platform for serious discourse. Your institution belongs in that conversation.
Financial Services
Decision-makers who move capital. Business owners, investors, high-net-worth professionals. Position as the trusted partner for Sri Lanka's business elite.
Retail & Consumer Brands
Our audience shops with intent and influences others. Diaspora viewers are high-spending consumers with disposable income abroad. Local viewers are exactly the urban professionals your brand needs to convert.
Professional Services
Law firms, consultancies, accounting and advisory practices — your clients are in this room. Sponsoring From the Island positions your firm as the go-to for Sri Lanka's most serious professionals.
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Why Sponsor Us
There are a thousand
podcasts. One Worth Being Associated With.
What follows is not only about reach. It's about who's listening, and what it means for your brand to be in their ears.
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You're buying a network, not just demographics
Our guests are ministers, UN officials, NATO specialists, and multinational MDs. The audience that finds us is the audience that follows them. You're not advertising to 'professionals' — you're advertising to the exact professionals.
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They come here to learn, not to be entertained
Our audience treats From the Island as an educational resource. They tune in to understand geopolitics, economic policy, and business strategy — not to be distracted. A brand that sponsors this platform is seen as a contributor to that learning, not an interruption of it.
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60–120 minutes of undivided attention
Our listeners commit to the full episode. That's not background noise — it's focused, intentional listening by people who chose to be here. The kind of attention where your brand message doesn't just reach people, it's actually remembered.
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An audience that acts on what it hears
These aren't passive consumers. Our viewers reference episodes in boardrooms, share clips with colleagues, and follow up on the topics we cover. When they hear about your brand in a context they trust, they take it seriously.
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The only show doing this in Sri Lanka
There is no direct competitor. We're the only long-form English podcast in Sri Lanka at this calibre of guest and production quality. First-mover sponsorship means category ownership — no one else gets to claim your spot.
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One sponsorship. Five platforms.
Every episode is repurposed into clips across YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, X, and LinkedIn. Your brand placement isn't a single ad — it's a continuous, multi-surface presence everywhere your audience actually is.
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Trust by association
When a Former UN Deputy Secretary-General speaks, people listen. When your brand appears alongside that conversation, you inherit the credibility. Our audience doesn't distinguish between the show and the brands that stand behind it.
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We're growing. Get in early.
59 episodes in and the trajectory is up. Every guest, every clip, every episode compounds the platform's reach. Sponsors who come in now lock in rates and positioning before the audience — and the price — reflects where this is clearly heading.
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Sponsorship Packages
Investment Tiers.
Four tiers built around depth of integration, from episode presence to full season ownership. We treat sponsors as strategic partners, not ad buyers. Bespoke arrangements available on request.
Entry Level
Package 1, Presence
Your brand in the room. Every time.
LKR 90,000
/ episode
- ✓30–45 sec host read pre-roll on the episode
- ✓End card brand tag, 2–3 sec "brought to you by [Brand]" permanently baked into the video
- ✓Brand name + link in the YouTube episode description
- ✓1 Instagram post mention of brand
- ✓1 Facebook post mention of brand
- ✓1 LinkedIn post mention of brand
- ✓Brand name + link in the description of one episode
Most Popular
Package 2, Partner
Deep integration across the episode and all our channels.
LKR 185,000
/ episode
- ✓60–90 sec host-read mid-roll, prime placement, deep into an engaged watch
- ✓"This episode is brought to you by [Brand]" opening title
- ✓End card brand tag, 2–3 sec branded close, permanently baked in
- ✓Studio placement, branded items prominently featured on set throughout the full episode
- ✓Brand featured in YouTube description + show notes
- ✓Dedicated Instagram, Facebook & TikTok Reel, 30–60 sec branded clip produced by the From the Island team
- ✓Brand included in episode end card graphic
- ✓1 LinkedIn post on episode release — cross-posted from both host accounts (Shanil Dutta & Enosh Simpson)
- ✓Clip licensing rights, sponsors can use episode clips on their own social/website
Expect 100k+ reach and visibility on all platforms (roughly 1 LKR per viewer)
Most Exclusive
Package 3, Episode Owner
Total ownership of one episode. Maximum integration, maximum impact.
LKR 500,000
/ episode
- ✓All Package 2 inclusions for the episode
- ✓Category exclusivity for the episode — no competing brands on the same release
- ✓"This episode is presented by [Brand]" — full naming rights across all platforms for that episode
- ✓Custom branded segment named after you, e.g. "The [Brand] Question" — baked permanently into the episode
- ✓Dedicated TikTok video built around your brand, produced by the From the Island team
- ✓Dedicated brand spotlight post across Instagram + Facebook on episode release day
- ✓Full commercial clip licensing — use any clips from the episode in paid ads, not just organic
- ✓Guest networking access — direct intro to the episode's guest for potential business conversations
- ✓Option to suggest the episode topic or guest
- ✓Co-branded content option — one standalone piece of content featuring a host and your brand
- ✓Sponsor question inclusion — submit one question to be asked to the guest on-air, attributed to your brand
- ✓Post-episode performance report — views, watch time, reach & engagement specific to your episode
- ✓First right of renewal at the same rate before it's offered to other brands
No Long-Term Commitment
Package 4, Monthly Plan (Always On)
Four episodes, every Tuesday, your brand presents all month.
LKR 280,000
/ month
- ✓End card brand tag on all 4 episodes that month, permanently baked into every video
- ✓30–45 sec host read pre-roll on all 4 episodes per month
- ✓Studio placement — branded item on set for all 4 episodes
- ✓1 Instagram post per month featuring your brand
- ✓1 Facebook post per month
- ✓1 LinkedIn post
- ✓Brand name + link in the description of all 4 episodes
- ✓Cancel or renew monthly — no long-term commitment required
Save LKR 200,000 vs booking 4 individual Package 1 episodes (LKR 360,000). Brands on the Monthly Plan can upgrade to Package 2 or 3 at any time.
All prices in LKR. Reach out to discuss a custom arrangement.
⚡ These are introductory prices and will be subject to change as the channel grows.