Straight answers.
Including the awkward ones.

Students and recent graduates who want a skill the market pays for; working professionals switching into marketing; business owners who are tired of paying agencies they can't audit; and freelancers who need real campaign experience before they can charge for it. If you want a certificate without doing the campaigns, we're the wrong choice and we'll say so on the call.

No — it's the most common starting point in our batches. Level 1 assumes you know nothing, and the eight-seat cap exists precisely so a beginner can ask a basic question without holding sixty people up. Background is optional. Effort isn't.

12th pass and above. No specific degree, stream or prior experience is required. What we do screen for on the counselling call is whether you can commit the hours — because with eight seats, one passenger drags the whole batch.

Both. Join the Rohini campus batch and sit on the agency floor, or join the live online batch from anywhere in India. Online students attend the same live sessions with the same mentors, get the same supervised account access remotely, and join the same weekly reviews. The only thing that changes is whether you're in the room.

Please do. Come to the Rohini office, sit in on a live session, meet the current batch and ask them what they think without us in the room. Message us on WhatsApp and we'll arrange it. We'd much rather you judge us in person than from a website.

Eight. That is a hard cap and we have turned away paying students rather than break it. Batch size is the entire product — the moment it grows, weekly individual review of your work stops being possible and we become every other institute.

There are weekday and weekend batch options for the 3-month program, and the 6-month program runs on a fixed weekly schedule plus internship hours in months 4–6. Exact current timings are confirmed on your counselling call, because they shift slightly batch to batch.

Yes, under supervision and within the limits our client agreements allow. You start with read access and account walkthroughs, then progress to building campaigns a mentor signs off before they go live. In the 6-month program's internship, accounts are assigned to you directly. Client data stays confidential — you learn on the account, you don't take the account home.

Practitioners from The Viral Trees who manage live client budget. That's a rule: the day a mentor stops running accounts, they stop taking sessions. We don't use full-time trainers or guest faculty reading someone else's deck.

Expect meaningful work between sessions — campaign builds, teardowns, creative production, reports. This is not a course you can pass by attending. Most students find it demanding in the way a job is demanding, which is rather the point.

A laptop, yes. You do not need to fund your own ad spend or buy paid tools to complete the program — you work inside our accounts and our tool stack. If you want to run personal test campaigns alongside, that's your call and we'll advise on a sensible budget.

Sessions are recorded as a backup and your mentor will cover what you missed in your weekly review. But recordings are the safety net, not the product — miss too many and you'll fall behind the batch, and we'll have an honest conversation with you about it.

Yes, on completion. Be realistic about what it's worth though: in six years of hiring, no candidate has ever got a job here because of a certificate. What actually gets you hired is the portfolio and, in the 6-month program, the internship experience. We give you the certificate and then spend our energy on the things that matter.

We share fees, EMI options and current batch dates on the counselling call rather than on the website — because the right program for you may not be the one you clicked on, and a number in isolation makes people choose wrong. You get the exact figure in the first ten minutes of the call, before any discussion about whether you should join.

Two honest reasons. First, we run EMI options and occasional batch-specific pricing, so a single figure on a page would be inaccurate for most people reading it. Second, we'd rather quote you the right program than have you talk yourself out of the wrong one. If it's out of your range we'll tell you on the call and we won't chase you afterwards.

Yes. We'll walk you through the options and the monthly figure on the call so you can decide with real numbers rather than a guess.

Sit through your first three scheduled sessions. If you don't believe this is the best marketing education you can buy in Delhi NCR, message us before your fourth session and you get 100% of your fee back — no questions asked, no form, no retention call. We initiate the refund within 3 working days. The full terms are on our guarantee page.

One fair condition: you need to have actually attended the sessions you're judging us on. The guarantee exists so you can evaluate the teaching, not so the fee acts as a free option on a program you never showed up to. Beyond that, there's no deduction, no administration fee and no non-refundable registration carve-out.

Once you continue past your third session you're enrolled and the fee is committed — your seat is one of eight and we've turned away the waitlist to hold it. Genuinely exceptional circumstances are handled case by case, in writing, by the founder.

No. Anyone who guarantees you a job in writing is either lying or has a clause you haven't read yet — no training institute in India controls an employer's hiring decision. What we guarantee is the training, live account access, the internship in the 6-month program, interview preparation, and placement support that continues after the program ends.

Six concrete things: portfolio build, CV and LinkedIn rebuilt around your actual work, three rounds of mock interviews with people who have hired media buyers, relevant openings and referrals through our network, first refusal on roles inside The Viral Trees itself, and continued support if you haven't landed a role by the end date. The full breakdown is on our outcomes page.

Prevailing market ranges for these roles in India sit around ₹3–6 LPA for skilled freshers and roughly ₹6–12 LPA with one to two years of real experience. Those are market observations shared for orientation, not a promise about what you personally will earn — your city, portfolio, interview and negotiation decide that.

Yes, and a meaningful share of our students do exactly that. Tell us on the counselling call and we'll shape your project work around client acquisition rather than interview preparation — and you'll leave with the same SOPs, audit sheets and report templates our own team uses on paying clients.

Yes. When we have an opening we look at our own students before advertising publicly, and several of our team joined that way. It's not a promise of a role — but it is the cleanest signal we can give you about what we think of the training.

Many of our students do. Weekend and evening options exist, and the live online format removes the commute. Be honest with yourself about the hours though — we'd genuinely rather you start a later batch than a batch you can't show up for.