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How a tiny Almaty studio became regional television

Production economics in the corridor look very different when YouTube and Telegram are your distribution.

Aigerim Nurlanqyzy
19 May 2026 · 7 min read
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How a tiny Almaty studio became regional television
Photograph: Kevin Films.

The office is unremarkable in the way the best ones often are: nine floors above a Soviet-era courtyard, three rooms, a single conference table covered in laptops. What is unusual is the team. Average age, 26. Average years of experience at a global tech company, four.

They did not start here. The founder spent his twenties in San Francisco, then Singapore, then back to Almaty for what he describes, without irony, as the easier market. "The hard part is not technical," he says. "The hard part is being legible to people who have never visited."

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