Best Content Studios in Bristol (2026)

Introduction

Bristol has a broad base of studios that make content for brands on a steady schedule, and the 10 below cover branded film, social-first video, sponsorship content and video podcasts. They were chosen for recent work, the strength of their client lists and evidence of a working Bristol studio in 2026.

The city’s content scene draws on its long history in broadcast and animation, and on a commercial sector that keeps growing. Aardman marked 50 years in 2026 with a Royal Mint 50p coin while still taking on brand work such as its Barbour Christmas films. Earworm, a video podcast agency founded in Bristol in 2023, was named Marketing & Advertising StartUp of the Year at the UK StartUp Awards in September 2026. Publisher Our Media runs photo, video and podcast studios from its Bristol headquarters for brands and charities alongside its own titles.

Every studio here has a Bristol base where the work is made. The list is unranked, since the right partner depends on format, budget and whether you need one campaign or a monthly supply of content.

The best content studios in Bristol

1. Earworm

Independent · Stokes Croft · earworm.co

Earworm is a video podcast agency for B2B brands, founded in Bristol in 2023. It handles the show concept, guest booking, recording and editing, then turns each episode into clips, audiograms, blog posts and newsletter content. The team grew from three people to sixteen, and in September 2026 it won Marketing & Advertising StartUp of the Year at the UK StartUp Awards.

Clients include KPMG, Cisco, Experian, IG Group and Soldo, whose finance series “The CFO Playbook” is one of its shows. It also lists a New York address as it expands into the US. Managed plans start from £1,500 a month, and the agency measures results with its own analytics platform, Insight Studio.

2. Our Media Creative Studio

Part of Our Media · Bristol · ourmedia.co.uk

Our Media is a Bristol-headquartered special-interest publisher that also works as a content agency, and its creative studio acts as an extension of clients’ content and marketing teams. The studios cover product and lifestyle photography, video from script to edit, podcast recording, copywriting, social posts and print design.

Case studies include taking the Natural History Museum’s content to a global audience through Apple News, an RSPB move from print to digital, and a Macmillan campaign run with BBC Countryfile across the publisher’s network. Work can be billed by rate card, by the hour or as a fixed fee, which suits teams that want a regular flow of assets rather than a single project.

3. JMP

Independent · Bristol · jmp.studio

JMP is a Bristol content and video agency built around sport, gaming and sponsorship. Its three services are people-led brand storytelling, platform-first social content and sponsorship activation for brands and rights holders. It works on one-off campaigns, marketing retainers and white-label production for other agencies.

Sky Bet is a long-running client, with work including the “Kev’s Heart Story” film with the British Heart Foundation, EFL Play-Off coverage at Wembley and the Building Foundations Fund for 2025/26. Other clients include England Rugby, Umbro, EA Sports FC, Flutter Entertainment and the Bristol Girls Can campaign.

4. Huxley Studios

Independent · Old City · thisishuxley.com

Huxley Studios is a full-service production company based on Baldwin Street, with a second office in Madrid. It makes content for brands, marketing films, commercials and social media, with a strong lean towards sport and lifestyle work.

Recent projects include “Forever Free” and “Future Riders x Cristina” for PUMA, “#JoinTheTribe” for Benetton, a brand evolution film for Carlsberg and “Nature First” for Yeo Valley. It also has a long run of work for the International Judo Federation and British Cycling’s Tour of Britain, so it is a good fit for brands that need event and athlete content in several languages.

5. Hurricane Media

Independent · Bristol · hurricanemedia.co.uk

Hurricane Media is a video marketing and social agency based in Bristol and London. It covers strategy, production (filming, animation, motion graphics, CGI and social video) and post-campaign activation and tracking, so the same team plans the content and reports on how it performed.

Its client list mixes global brands and international non-profits: AB InBev, Huawei, AXA, Bupa, Costa, Shelter and the World Food Programme. Projects include Huawei’s “Every Day Is A Story” social series, an AB InBev diversity and inclusion campaign and the World Food Programme’s “Unite To Beat Hunger”.

6. LRB Media

Independent · Harbourside · lrb-media.co.uk

LRB Media makes video and podcast content for B2B brands from its base at Albion Dockside. Its work spans B2B podcast series, documentary-style case studies, brand films, thought leadership and event coverage. For podcasts, it brings a portable studio to the client’s premises.

Clients include Amazon, Legal & General, Stantec, Barbour, Forestry England and Moët & Chandon. Recent case studies cover the University of Southampton’s Institute for Medical Innovation and PeopleCert. Its guides on turning trade shows into B2B content and building LinkedIn carousels from podcast episodes show how it thinks about getting more from one recording.

7. Commotion

Independent · Old City · commotion.agency

Commotion is a B2B video agency based in the Old Stock Exchange on St Nicholas Street. It makes branded documentaries, video case studies, pitch films and social video, and it can also run the paid social campaigns that carry the content on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok.

Clients include easyJet, Vodafone, Virgin Atlantic, T-Mobile, Castrol, Morrisons and NHS Supply Chain. It also produces for agency partners, including Nomensa and Copper Consultancy, and a testimonial credits a pitch film with helping Tata Consultancy Services win a large telecoms contract.

8. Floating Harbour

Independent · Welsh Back · floatingharbour.co.uk

Floating Harbour is a film production company working from a Dutch barge on Welsh Back, with a studio in central Bristol. Its social offer is built for always-on output: planned shoot days that produce a library of short captioned films, cutdowns in vertical, square and sound-off formats, and content days on a fixed monthly or quarterly fee.

Clients are mostly businesses, charities and public bodies. Work includes “One Step Greener” profile films for the Cabinet Office, screened at COP26, social cutdowns for the Whitley Fund for Nature’s 2024 awards, and ZeroAvia’s Farnborough Airshow and first-flight films. Chrysalis Courses has run its social adverts with the studio every year since 2023.

9. Odd Duck Films

Independent · Bristol · oddduckfilms.co.uk

Odd Duck Films is a Bristol studio co-founded by Jack Fisher and George Hopkins. It makes branded documentaries, brand and corporate films, social content and event coverage, and reports more than 25 million views on its work in 2025. Social content can be turned around in days, while documentaries take two to four months.

Its social work for music and sport stands out: a Linkin Park “Heavy Is The Crown” piece for Alive Coverage and Live Nation reached 21 million views in its first year, and NHL Stadium Series content passed 1.8 million. Brand clients include Epson, KPMG, Glenfiddich, Land Rover and Foster + Partners.

10. Aardman

Employee-owned · Bristol · aardman.com

Aardman is the Oscar and BAFTA-winning animation studio behind Wallace & Gromit and Shaun the Sheep. It became employee-owned in 2018, and its commercials and short-form team works with brands around the world. In 2026 it advertised for a commercial director to lead branded content partnerships across digital, TV, commercials and film.

Recent brand work includes a Wallace & Gromit Christmas collaboration with Barbour in 2025, followed by a 2026 festive message, and a pension campaign for Nest in September 2025. Brands that want to work with Aardman characters, rather than commission an original film, should expect a licensing conversation alongside the creative one.

What to look for in a Bristol content studio

Start with the format you need most. Some Bristol studios here are podcast specialists, some are built around social video, and some are publishers or animation studios with a brand arm. A studio that is strong on 60-second vertical cuts may not be the right choice for a ten-part B2B podcast, and the reverse is also true.

Ask how the studio works over time. Always-on content depends on a rhythm: regular shoot or recording days, a backlog of ideas and a clear turnaround for cutdowns. Retainers, content days and monthly podcast plans all exist in Bristol, and it is worth asking what is included each month and how unused time is handled.

Look at how the studio measures results. Several of the studios above report on views, engagement or pipeline, and Earworm and Hurricane build tracking into their service. Agree the measures before the first shoot so the reporting answers your questions and not only the studio’s.

Finally, check how files and feedback move between you and the studio. A single podcast episode can turn into a long video, several clips, audiograms and written posts, each needing approval. Studios with a clear review process, and one place where the latest versions live, save a good deal of time over a long-running content programme.

How Fabric helps content studios

Fabric gives a content team one workspace for raw footage, edits, transcripts and client feedback, with AI search across all of it. Content studios run many small deliverables for each client, and the content creation setup is built around that: one space per client, with briefs, shoot plans, edits and published assets kept together.

Recordings and footage sit in Fabric’s cloud drive, which streams files on demand so they take no local disk space, and heavy video files open without a full download. Uploaded audio and video are transcribed automatically, with clickable timestamps, so a producer can find a quote in last month’s podcast episode and cut it into a clip. Search works by meaning across documents, images and transcripts, and results jump to the right page or timestamp.

For review, share a file or folder with the client as a commenter; shared links work without sign-up. With annotations, clients leave timestamped comments on video and audio, draw on a video frame or an image and attach a comment, and highlight text in scripts and PDFs. The team marks each comment completed as it is dealt with, so a round of feedback works like a checklist. Threaded comments and @mentions keep the conversation on the file itself.

For planning, any folder can become a Kanban board whose cards are the files themselves, which suits a content pipeline moving from idea to shoot, edit and approval. The content planning guide shows how teams set this up.

Team plans start from $125 a month, and each plan’s features are listed on the pricing page. See plans for teams.

Frequently asked questions

What is a content studio?

A content studio makes branded content on a regular basis, such as social video, brand films, podcasts and editorial pieces, rather than one-off advertising campaigns. Many work on monthly retainers or content days, and some sit inside publishers or larger studios.

Which Bristol content studios make podcasts for brands?

Earworm and LRB Media both specialise in B2B video podcasts, and Our Media’s creative studio has podcast recording facilities at its Bristol headquarters. Earworm won Marketing & Advertising StartUp of the Year at the UK StartUp Awards in 2026.

How much does always-on content cost in Bristol?

Pricing varies with format and volume. Earworm’s managed podcast plans start from £1,500 a month, while studios such as Floating Harbour offer content days on a fixed monthly or quarterly fee. Most studios quote per project, so ask for a monthly scope in writing.

Can Bristol content studios work with brands outside the South West?

Yes. Huxley Studios has a Madrid office, Hurricane Media works from Bristol and London, and Earworm lists a New York address. Odd Duck Films has filmed in the UK, USA, South Korea and several European countries.

Where can I find Bristol video production companies?

For commercials, corporate films and larger shoots, see the list of video production companies in Bristol. Several studios on this page also make one-off brand films.

Related lists

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