Best Content Studios in Zurich (2026)

Introduction

Zurich’s content studios split into two groups: the in-house brand studios of the big Swiss publishers, and independent agencies that write and produce magazines, reports, podcasts and always-on content for companies. The 9 studios below were chosen for recent work, 2025 and 2026 recognition, and the clients they serve.

The publishers set much of the pace. Ringier, NZZ and Tamedia all run commercial content teams in Zurich that write native stories and produce video and podcasts for advertisers, distributed across titles such as Blick, nzz.ch and the Tamedia newspapers. Ringier is also reshaping its print line-up: SonntagsBlick will be replaced by the new weekly Blick fürs Wochenende in January 2027. Among independents, Zurich storytelling agency Schroten won Gold and the Grand Prix at the Best of Content Marketing (BCM) Awards 2025 for Nagra’s “Jahrhundertmagazin”, and Gold again in 2026. Client demand comes largely from the sectors that dominate the city: banking and insurance, energy, industry and retail.

Every studio here has an active office in Greater Zurich in 2026. Pure film production companies sit on the video production page and social-first agencies on the social media page. The list runs in no fixed order of merit, since the right choice depends on the brief, the channels and the budget.

The best content studios in Zurich

1. Ringier Advertising Brand Studio

Part of Ringier · Altstetten · ringier-advertising.ch

The Brand Studio is the in-house creative unit of Ringier Advertising, the marketing arm that sells advertising across Ringier’s Swiss titles, including Blick. It develops campaigns from the first idea to final execution and distributes them through the Ringier Medien Schweiz network. Its formats include Branded Story (native articles written to a client brief and to the standards of the host title), short vertical video on Blick.ch, interactive video and branded podcasts.

Recent cases include a vertical video series for the energy company BKW and the podcast “Stadt, Land, Stuss” with Sunrise Young. The studio also produced the magazine for “26 Summits”, the long-running Blick hiking campaign that UBS joined as a partner. Ringier Advertising is based at Flurstrasse 55.

2. NZZ Content Creation

Part of NZZ · Seefeld · nzzone.ch

NZZ Content Creation is the corporate publishing agency of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. It produces journalistic branded content to NZZ’s editorial standards for NZZone (the marketing organisation for all NZZ brands), audienzz and NZZ Connect, covering concept, design, editing, proofreading, production and distribution. NZZone itself has 46 staff and markets 27 brands in German, French and Italian.

Work runs across print, online, video and podcast: customer magazines, publisher’s supplements in NZZ and NZZ am Sonntag, sponsored content on nzz.ch, NZZ Bellevue and KMU_today, and standalone corporate publications. Content can run on NZZ’s own titles or on the client’s channels. NZZ Story Lab, part of the same organisation at Falkenstrasse 11, is pushing paid content further into multimedia formats.

3. Tamedia Commercial Content

Part of TX Group · Zurich · advertising.tamedia.ch

Tamedia’s commercial content team turns brand messages into stories for its newspapers and digital titles, with native advertising, brand storytelling and content strategy as its three main services. Its stated mission is “Connecting brands and people.” Content runs across print, digital, social media and newsletters, and is also readable behind the paywall on Tamedia publications.

Giselle Vaugne leads the team as Commercial Content Director. In May 2026 Tamedia Advertising launched Branded Content Premium, its most exclusive placement for brand stories, alongside special issues planned through 2026. It suits brands that want reach in German- and French-speaking Switzerland through established news titles.

4. Linkgroup

Swiss agency · Seefeld · linkgroup.ch

Linkgroup is a communication agency working across publishing, reporting, content and digital, with consulting, concept, creation and production under one roof. Its services include ESG and annual reporting, content creation, publishing systems, media production, and video and podcast work. The firm marks 50 years in business.

Its client list leans towards listed Swiss industrial and real estate companies, including Accelleron, Ascom, Allreal, Bachem, Barry Callebaut, BKW, Bystronic and Burckhardt Compression. Linkgroup won Gold at the BCM Awards 2024 with Takeda Pharma for the podcast “Buuchgfühl”, which gives a voice to people living with a chronic bowel condition. The office is at Mühlebachstrasse 52.

5. Swisscontent

Swiss agency · Hottingen · swisscontent.ch

Swisscontent is a communication and marketing agency working under the line “Change. Well told.” It helps organisations through transformation with internal communication, external communication and marketing content, and a Digital and AI Lab that builds digital tools around the content.

The agency organised its work in 2020 into content marketing, corporate publishing, corporate communications, corporate reporting, creative communications and its digital lab, each led by a specialist. That structure makes it a fit for companies that need a customer magazine, an annual report and employee communication from one team. It is based at Hottingerstrasse 12.

6. Schroten

Founder-led · Zurich · schroten.ch

Schroten is a storytelling agency founded by Michèle Roten and Adrian Schräder. It works with a team of specialised freelancers and turns complex subjects into clear communication, choosing the format to suit the task.

Its “Jahrhundertmagazin” for Nagra, the organisation responsible for Switzerland’s radioactive waste disposal, won Gold and the Grand Prix at the BCM Awards 2025, and a second Nagra magazine, “500m+”, on the theme of risk, also took Silver. In 2026 Schroten won BCM Gold for its campaign for Zwhatt, a new urban quarter in Regensdorf. Other work includes projects for Urban Kombucha and Pro Juventute.

7. Raffinerie

Swiss studio · Kreis 4 · raffinerie.com

Raffinerie (Raffinerie AG für Gestaltung) describes itself as a design agency for branding, digital and editorials, working under the line “Rigorously playful.” Editorial work sits alongside branding and digital in its portfolio, and the studio is based on Anwandstrasse.

Raffinerie and Helsana won Gold at the BCM Awards 2025 for the Helsana consumer guide “Allergien”. Other clients include Zürcher Kantonalbank, On, SRG, the Museum für Gestaltung, Schauspielhaus Zürich and the law firm Lenz & Staehelin.

8. Wirz

Wirz Group · Wiedikon · wirz.ch

Wirz is one of Zurich’s best-known agencies, and its social media and storytelling practice works as a content studio inside the group. It covers social content strategy and production, campaign video, animation and image assets, channel set-up and community management, and editorial articles produced with freelance journalists and other creators.

The practice sells work in fixed-scope article packages, monthly retainers and workshops, which suits brands that want always-on content without building an in-house newsroom. Nico Keramaris leads it as Marketing Campaigning and Social Media Director, from the Wirz office at Uetlibergstrasse 134b.

9. KonText Textagentur

Founder-led · Winterthur · kontextagentur.ch

KonText is a storytelling agency for companies, founded in 2017 by Matthias Mehl, formerly editor-in-chief at a mid-sized publisher. It works in three areas: corporate writing for websites and brochures, content marketing (articles, interviews and reportage that show a company’s know-how), and corporate publishing, placing stories in trade and consumer media.

Its references include PR articles for Raiffeisen, PwC, Mobimo and Kuka that ran in the Tages-Anzeiger and Bilanz. It is a small operation, so it suits companies that want a senior writer with media contacts more than a full production team.

What to look for in a Zurich content studio

Decide first whether you need distribution or production. A publisher studio such as Ringier’s, NZZ’s or Tamedia’s sells reach on its own titles, and the content is written to sit next to journalism. An independent agency produces for your channels (a customer magazine, a report, a podcast, a content hub) and has no audience of its own. Many brands use both, for different jobs.

Ask about languages early. Swiss content often has to run in German and French, sometimes Italian and English, and translation added at the end tends to show. Check whether the studio writes in each language natively, and who signs off the final French or Italian copy.

Look at the editorial people, by name. Content quality in Zurich depends heavily on a small pool of experienced journalists and editors, many of whom work freelance across several studios. A studio that can tell you who will write, edit and fact-check your pieces is easier to judge than one that shows only a portfolio.

Then look at how the work moves. Content programmes produce a steady flow of drafts, photos, interview recordings and video cuts, often with legal and compliance review on the client side, which is common in banking, insurance and pharma. Studios with one place for the latest files and a clear approval trail lose less time to version confusion.

How Fabric helps content studio teams

Fabric gives a content studio one workspace for drafts, assets, recordings and client feedback, with AI search across all of it. The setup for content agencies keeps each client’s briefs, editorial calendar, photos and published pieces together.

Running an always-on programme is mostly pipeline work. Any folder can become a Kanban board whose cards are the files themselves, so a story moves from pitch to draft to approved without being copied anywhere, and the content planning template covers the calendar. Interview recordings and video are transcribed and searchable, with clickable timestamps, so a writer can find a quote without replaying an hour of tape. Search works by meaning across documents, images, PDFs and connected apps such as Google Drive and Notion.

Large photo and video libraries sit in Fabric’s cloud drive, which streams files on demand without filling local disks. For review, a studio shares a draft or folder with the client as a commenter; shared links work without sign-up. Clients highlight and comment on text and PDFs, leave timestamped comments on video and audio, draw on a video frame or an image and attach a comment to the drawing, and the team marks each comment completed as it is handled. The annotations and collaboration pages cover the details. Finished pieces can be published as a web page, which is view-only.

On Team plans, self-writing docs keep a page for each client up to date from meetings, Slack and the workspace, covering decisions, deliverables and open items. Fabric encrypts data with AES-256 and is CASA Tier 2 certified.

Self-writing docs are included on Team plans, from $125 per month. See plans for teams.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best content studio in Zurich?

It depends on the job. On recent awards, Schroten stands out among independents, with Gold and the Grand Prix at the BCM Awards 2025 and Gold again in 2026. For reach on news titles, the brand studios at Ringier, NZZ and Tamedia are the main options.

What is a publisher brand studio?

It is a commercial content team inside a media company that writes and produces branded content for advertisers and runs it on the publisher’s own titles. In Zurich, Ringier Advertising’s Brand Studio works across Blick, NZZ Content Creation across NZZ’s titles, and Tamedia’s commercial content team across its newspapers.

What are the BCM Awards?

The Best of Content Marketing Awards are an annual content marketing competition for the German-speaking region. Swiss winners in 2025 included Schroten with Nagra and Raffinerie with Helsana, and Linkgroup won Gold in 2024 with Takeda.

Do Zurich content studios also make video?

Most do. The publisher studios produce vertical, interactive and podcast formats, and agencies such as Linkgroup and Wirz offer video in-house. For commercials and larger shoots, see the best video production companies in Zurich.

Can content studios work in French and Italian as well as German?

Many can, but check how. NZZone markets brands in German, French and Italian, and Tamedia covers German- and French-speaking Switzerland. For smaller agencies, ask whether each language is written natively or translated.

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