Best Content Studios in Helsinki (2026)

Introduction

Helsinki has 10 content studios worth a shortlist in 2026, ranging from the in-house brand studios of Finland’s three big publishers to agencies that run content programmes alongside PR and social work. They produce native articles, customer magazines, podcasts, video and the steady flow of channel content that brands now need every week.

The Finnish market has a particular shape. Sanoma, Alma Media and Otavamedia all sell content production as well as advertising space, so a brand can commission journalists who already write for Helsingin Sanomat, Iltalehti or Kauppalehti. Sanoma Content Studio was named Branded Content Agency/Studio of the Year in its size bracket at the Branded Content Awards in London in June 2026. On the agency side, Netprofile Finland was named Communications Agency of the Year at the Finnish Comms Awards on 5 November 2026, and Kurio now trades as SAMY. Nordic Morning’s Finnish business continues as part of Comprend.

Every studio below has an active office in Greater Helsinki in 2026, confirmed from its own pages. The list is unranked. Publisher studios suit brands that want reach in a particular title, while agencies suit brands that mainly publish on their own channels.

The best content studios in Helsinki

1. Sanoma Content Studio

Part of Sanoma Media Finland · Helsinki city centre · media.sanoma.fi/contentstudio

Sanoma Content Studio is the content marketing unit of Sanoma Media Finland, working from Sanomatalo in central Helsinki. It plans content strategies and produces articles, video, animation, customer magazines, podcasts, radio and TV formats, branded entertainment and social content. In June 2026 it won Branded Content Agency/Studio of the Year at the Branded Content Awards in London, where Terveystalo’s programme “Vaietut vuodet” also took Gold.

Its client cases include Terveystalo, Fortum, Danske Bank, UPM, Rovio, DNA, Helen, S-Market and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Through Sanoma Tähdet it also offers influencer and celebrity content, which suits campaigns that need a recognisable face.

2. Alma Brand Studio

Part of Alma Media · Helsinki city centre · almamedia.fi/brandstudio

Alma Brand Studio is Alma Media’s content marketing unit, based at the group’s Alma House headquarters on Alvar Aallon katu. In-house journalists write expert interviews, reportage and features that run as marked commercial content in titles such as Iltalehti, Kauppalehti, Talouselämä and Tivi, or are delivered for the client’s own channels. The studio also handles video, photography, graphic design and full podcast production.

Recent work includes the DNA podcast “Kyberrosvot” with Tivi, which won two golds and a silver at the Native Advertising Awards, a Kauppalehti article series for Pyhä Ski Resort and Alma’s first TV series, “Duunarit”, for Bolt.Works. Its K-Supermarket series was a finalist at the 2025 Finnish Comms Awards. It is a natural fit for B2B brands that want to reach Kauppalehti and Talouselämä readers.

3. Otavamedia

Part of Otava · Helsinki city centre · yrityksille.otavamedia.fi

Otavamedia publishes magazines and customer magazines, and its business arm sells what it calls own media solutions: content strategy and annual planning, customer and stakeholder magazines, web content, video and podcasts, plus SEO, newsletters and paid distribution. It says it produces media for more than 100 clients, many of them associations and public bodies. The business office is at Uudenmaankatu 10.

Case examples include Tays Heart Hospital, ProAgria, Juristiliitto, ISOVER, BMW and Bosch Power Tools. Its customer and member magazine work makes it a practical choice for unions, federations and other organisations that publish to a fixed membership.

4. Era Content

Finnish agency, founded 2014 · Pitäjänmäki · eracontent.fi

Era Content is a strategic content, communications and marketing agency with offices in Helsinki and South Ostrobothnia. It had 17 staff and revenue of about €2.5 million when it appointed Henna Rautiainen as content director in September 2025, and it says it has worked for more than 100 companies, public organisations and media outlets.

The agency works across brand, content marketing, communications and design, and leans towards long-running client partnerships over one-off campaigns. Its Helsinki office is at Takomotie 8 in Pitäjänmäki, west of the centre.

5. Kurio (now SAMY)

Part of SAMY · Punavuori · kurio.fi

Kurio built its name as a social media agency and became part of the SAMY network, with the team trading under the SAMY name from early 2026. Its services cover content strategy, content production, creative campaigns and paid social, and it has run its Social Brand Master Class for 19 rounds. It won four awards at the ICCO Global Awards 2023.

Work shown on its site includes Fazer’s Remix campaign, Arla’s Lempi, Tutti Frutti and “Finlandia by Forest Machines” for Neste and Ponsse. The Helsinki team works from Merimiehenkatu in Punavuori. It suits brands whose content plan is built around social channels.

6. Netprofile Finland

Netprofile Finland Oy · Kaartinkaupunki · netprofile.fi

Netprofile Finland is a communications agency for industrial and technology B2B companies, working from Eteläranta on the South Harbour. Content production sits alongside PR, B2B marketing and training. It was named Communications Agency of the Year at the Finnish Comms Awards in November 2026, where its “Johtoajatuksia” podcast for DNA also won the podcast category.

Clients include Schneider Electric, Fortinet, Continental, Kyndryl, Visma, VTT and DNA Yrityksille. It is a good fit for technical firms that need thought-leadership articles, podcasts and case stories written by people who understand the product.

7. Miltton

Miltton Group · Sörnäinen · miltton.com

Miltton is a communications group with its main office in Helsinki and further offices in Stockholm, Brussels, Tallinn, Riga, London and Washington. Its in-house production team makes brand and campaign films, animation, corporate and social video, podcasts and photography, and the group works with close to 120 companies and associations each year. Reetta Wallén joined as creative director in October 2026.

Clients include the University of Helsinki, Telia, Intrum and Finago, and recent output includes Intrum’s 2025 annual report. The Helsinki office is on Sörnäisten rantatie. Miltton suits organisations whose content needs to line up with public affairs and corporate communications.

8. Viestintätoimisto Kaiku

Finnish agency, formed by merger · Punavuori · kaiku.fi

Kaiku is a communications agency formed by the merger of Kaiku Helsinki and Cocomms. It has about 40 staff and reported revenue of €4.4 million for 2025. Its work covers corporate and employer communications, food and health communication, social media campaigns and research, and it publishes an annual Viestintäbarometri survey of more than 100 executives.

At the 2026 Finnish Comms Awards it won the employer image category for HUS Diagnostiikkakeskus and the crisis communications category for Ylva. Other clients include Suomen Varustamot, Rakli and Kopiosto. The Helsinki office is on Lönnrotinkatu.

9. Grapevine

Nordic agency · Kaartinkaupunki · grapevine.fi

Grapevine describes itself as a full-service Nordic marketing agency, combining strategy, creative, content, media and data, with offices in Helsinki and Copenhagen. It has built its own AI platform, Grapevine Studio, for content production.

Case studies include Lindström, Paulig, Kekkilä, HOAS and the Pilke daycare chain, and its client logos include Arla, Miele and Santa Maria. The Helsinki office is on Pieni Roobertinkatu. It suits food and consumer brands that want content and media planned together.

10. Comprend

Part of Aura · Vallila · comprend.com

Comprend is a Nordic marketing and communications agency that now carries on the business of Nordic Morning, and keeps an office in Helsinki. Its services cover corporate communications, branding, marketing, analytics and digital platforms, including its Webranking study of corporate websites.

Named cases include Vepsäläinen, Hiab, SSAB and Alfa Laval. The Finnish office is on Elimäenkatu in Vallila, led by managing director Mikko Peltomäki. It is a sensible option for listed companies that want corporate content and investor-facing web work handled together.

What to look for in a Helsinki content studio

Decide first whether you are buying reach or production. Publisher studios at Sanoma, Alma Media and Otavamedia sell content that runs in their own titles, so the price usually includes the audience. Agencies such as Era Content, Netprofile and Kaiku produce for your own channels, and distribution becomes a separate line in the budget.

Ask who writes. Several Helsinki studios use journalists who also work on the publisher’s editorial side, which helps with quality and tone. Check how commercial content is labelled and who approves the final text, as Finnish media keeps a clear line between editorial and paid content.

Check the languages you need. Much of the work on these studios’ own sites is in Finnish, so if you need Swedish, English or wider Nordic content, ask to see published examples in those languages and ask who writes them.

Finally, look at how the studio runs an always-on programme. A content calendar with weekly articles, podcast episodes and social cuts produces a lot of drafts, recordings and comments. Studios with one place for the plan, the files and the feedback lose less time chasing approvals across email.

How Fabric helps content studio teams

Fabric gives a content team one workspace for its plans, drafts, recordings and client feedback, with AI search across all of it. The content marketing setup is built around running several client programmes at once, with briefs, articles, images and call notes kept together for each client.

Any folder can become a Kanban board whose cards are the files themselves, so a content calendar moves from idea to draft to approved without a separate tracker. There is more on that pattern in the content planning use case. Podcast recordings and interview audio are transcribed automatically, and search finds a quote by meaning and jumps to the timestamp.

Client feedback works through shared links. Share a draft, image or video with the client as a commenter, and they can leave comments without creating an account. Annotations cover highlights and comments on documents and PDFs, timestamped comments on video and audio, and drawings on video frames and images. The team marks each comment completed as it is handled, so a review round works like a checklist.

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. A writer joining a programme halfway through can read the history in one place.

Shared links, comments and roles are covered on the collaboration page, and self-writing docs are included on Team plans. See plans for teams.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best content studio in Helsinki?

It depends on what you need. On 2026 recognition, Sanoma Content Studio won Branded Content Agency/Studio of the Year at the Branded Content Awards, and Netprofile Finland was named Communications Agency of the Year at the Finnish Comms Awards.

What is the difference between a publisher content studio and a content agency?

A publisher studio such as Alma Brand Studio produces content that can run, clearly marked, in the publisher’s own titles, so reach comes with the work. A content agency produces for the brand’s own website, newsletters and social channels and plans distribution separately.

What happened to Kurio?

Kurio became part of the SAMY network and announced in early 2026 that its team now works under the SAMY name. The Helsinki office on Merimiehenkatu continues.

What happened to Nordic Morning in Finland?

Nordic Morning is now part of Comprend, which says it carries on Nordic Morning’s work. Comprend keeps a Helsinki office in Vallila.

Which Helsinki content studios also make video and podcasts?

Sanoma Content Studio, Alma Brand Studio, Otavamedia and Miltton all produce video and podcasts in-house. For larger shoots and commercials, a dedicated production company is the better fit.

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