IE Entrepreneurs || José María Castillejo: Entertainment motivates

José María Castillejo, IE graduate, is the president of Zinkia Entertainment, a world reference in children’s entertainment, thanks to the extraordinary international success of the happy character Pocoyó, a small boy dressed in blue. Pocoyo, protagonist of a television series, has become a global, multi-platform entertainment brand.

Zinkia was created in 2001 as an audiovisual content producer for TV. Whatare main characteristics today?
Actually, Zinkia wasn’t created as an audiovisual contents producer for TV: Zinkia was created with the idea of being able to create contents that would help change our lives for the better and, in particular, help change our children’s lives for the better; children who were only babies when we created Zinkia.

Your company has become a world reference in children’s entertainment thanks to the extraordinary international success of Pocoyo, a small boy dressed in blue. What are the key factors behind that success, especially bearing in mind the huge number of competitors on the market?
I think that one of the key factors has been staying focused: trying to change our children’s lives, helping them to enjoy themselves and, while they do so, to learn that there are certain values that make human beings different from other living beings and that when we assume those values, they help us to be happy: friendship, loyalty, sincerity, hard work… And all while they are discovering new things about the world. The world that opens itself up to them and that they look at under a light of never-ending curiosity. I have no doubts that keeping our focus on that has helped us to be successful. Then ther e is also the talent of the people w e have worked with, the quality of the designs, contents and technological developments that have been made to represent the world of Pocoyo as we wanted.