How Can Transmedia Zone Help Me?
This era of the entertainment industry isn't easy to navigate and many get stuck on how to make their goals a reality. TZ helps you rethink the entertainment & media industry to help you break beyond your status quo.
Whether you’re just starting out or rethinking your current strategy, we want to help creatives, storytellers & entrepreneurs grow a new confident creative strategic mindset - in a way that makes sense to your project and business. TZ helps bridge creative minds to a sustainable business mindset, and shows you new ways to succeed in an ethical and mindful manner.
Our mission is to help creative minds navigate and succeed in a complicated media landscape.
We’ve designed a program crafted to help them take their project and business to the next level, covering key topics like story structure, lean startup methodology, financing, pitching, discoverability, brand storytelling, media training and so much more.
We disrupt the usual ideas from Silicon Valley, and adapt it to make sense for a more equitable and creative world.
- Attainable Goals Designed With Accountability
- Time Budget To Help You Hit Your Goals
- Long term mentorship of 6-9 months *or beyond*
Now here’s a few of our most commonly asked questions - and how we can help!
What Does the Transmedia Zone Offer?
Downtown Toronto Work & Meeting Space
- Personalized Mentorship and accountability road map
- Funding and Skill Building Workshops
- Access to Talent/New Collaborators/employees
- Market Insight and Research
- Entrepreneurship Coaching Sessions
- Comms & Media Training
- Brand Storytelling
- Discounted Conferences
- Publicity and Ongoing Support
- A Fun Creative Storytelling Meeting/Creation Space
Plus, access to free resources from TMU, such as: Radio Studios, Equipment Distribution Centre, Adobe Creative Cloud, Autodesk, and more!
Does my idea have a clear audience? How do I find my ideal audience/customer?
In the entertainment industry, finding your ideal audience isn’t just helpful—it’s everything. When you know exactly who connects with your work, you can build real engagement, lasting fans, and a career that actually pays. Our incubator gives you the tools, insider access, and expert support to find and grow your perfect audience, so you can focus on what you do best—creating.
- Build an Ideal Audience Profile
- Find out about tools that can help you daily
- Gain access to industry research databases
- Use our social media guides and templates to create consistency in your daily posting & calls-to-action.
How Can I Get Funding?
More than any other area, this is where we see the most incorrect approaches from creatives. We will help demystify funding and also help you directly with the fund you’re going for, so you’re set up for success.
- helping you create a creative lean canvas business plan
- identifying your ideal audience profile
- shaping the storytelling of your idea
- showing you why your idea is valuable to the funder
- helping you learn better ways to pitch
- teaching you how to rephrase, reimagine and reshape your approach to crowdfunding and grant proposals
How Do I Create A Winning Pitch?
The ability to pitch an idea effectively is crucial for success because it persuades others to see your vision, secure support, and build a team. A strong pitch can open doors to funding, partnerships, and opportunities that turn ideas into reality.
- learn storytelling for business
- understand our storytelling triangle
- pitch practice with an audience
- pitch scenario role plays with our own judges
- learn how to arc a pitch, so you begin and end strong
- feedback from our staff, tz members and industry peers.
How can I join the transmedia zone?
We are currently taking members in Toronto/GTA looking to create a business or project in the entertainment/media industry. Just fill out the application in our link in bio or on our website.
- We’ll be in touch in mid March for your interview!
- If you have any questions, dm us on instagram or contact us via our website!
- stay tuned for our live AMA sessions about the zone
- if you’re a TMU student - be sure to join Student League for more opportunities!
