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CBM Studio · Contract publishing

Your brand. Published by CBM.

CBM Studio is the white-label arm of Capital Business Media. We use the same editorial, design and production team that powers our own titles — Business Matters, Travelling For Business, Optimum — to build custom publications for brands, associations and corporates. Digital magazines, annual and sustainability reports, customer publications, brand newsrooms and long-running contract titles, delivered end-to-end.

What we make

Six things we publish, end-to-end, on your behalf.

Every CBM Studio project is run by a dedicated editor, supported by the same designers, sub-editors and digital production team that ship our own monthly titles. We don't sub-contract to freelancers and we don't use AI to write the copy.

01

Custom digital magazines

Long-running monthly or quarterly digital titles for brands, associations and corporate customers — built on the same Bricks/WordPress stack we use ourselves.

Banking, insurance, legal, professional services, associations
02

Annual & sustainability reports

Beautifully written and designed annual reports, sustainability reports and ESG disclosures for listed companies, scale-ups and large private businesses.

Plc reports, ESG, B Corp, sustainability
03

Print + digital hybrid titles

Quarterly or bi-annual print titles paired with a continuously-updated digital edition. We handle commissioning, design, print procurement and distribution.

Member magazines, alumni publications
04

Customer publications

Long-form customer magazines for retail, banking, automotive, hospitality and the membership economy. Distributed in-product, in-app or to a known customer list.

Retail, automotive, hospitality, fintech
05

Brand newsrooms

Standing brand newsrooms running 30-50 stories a month on your domain, written and edited by CBM journalists and sub-editors. SEO-optimised, AP-style, PR-quality.

B2B brand content at scale
06

Thought leadership reports

One-off insight reports, executive surveys, white papers and policy reports. Research, drafting, design, distribution and PR — under your brand or co-branded.

Sector reports, surveys, policy papers
How it works

Four steps. Roughly eight to ten weeks from brief to launch.

Most projects move from initial brief to first issue inside ten weeks. Long-running titles transition to a regular monthly or quarterly cadence with a fixed editorial calendar set 12 months ahead.

Discovery & scoping

Audience, objectives, format, distribution, cadence and KPIs locked into a one-page brief and a written quote.

Editorial & design

The CBM in-house team builds the title — commissioning, copy, photography, illustration, design, sub-editing, fact-checking.

Production & QA

Print procurement (where applicable), digital build, QA pass against the agreed brief, accessibility check, sign-off cycle.

Delivery & measurement

Distribution, PR plug-in if relevant, post-launch reporting against KPIs, recommendations for the next issue.

Past work

Three projects we can talk about.

A small selection of contract publishing projects delivered through CBM Studio. Most are confidential under NDA — we'll talk through the full back-catalogue once we've signed mutual NDAs and understood what you're trying to do.

[PLACEHOLDER · Banking client]

Quarterly customer magazine for a UK private bank

Print + digital · 4 issues / yr · 60pp

A quarterly customer magazine sent to the bank's HNW client base, covering wealth, family business, lifestyle and the bank's own market commentary. Distributed by post and as an app-native digital edition.

4Issues / year
22kPrint run
62%Open rate (digital)
[PLACEHOLDER · FTSE-250 retailer]

Annual sustainability report

Print + digital + investor microsite · Annual

A 92-page annual sustainability report for a listed UK retailer, plus a digital investor microsite, ESG datapack and full PR plug-in for launch day. Delivered against a tight regulatory disclosure window.

92ppReport
1Microsite
11Editorial features
[PLACEHOLDER · Industry association]

Member magazine for a UK professional body

Bi-monthly print + digital · 80pp/issue

A long-running bi-monthly magazine for a UK professional association's 35,000 members. CBM Studio took over the title from a previous publisher and rebuilt it across editorial, design and digital from issue one.

6Issues / year
35kMembers reached
+18%Engagement YoY

Send us a brief.

Tell us what you're publishing, who it's for, the format and the rough timeline. We'll come back inside two working days with a written response, scope outline and indicative cost. If we don't think it's the right fit we'll say so — and where we can, we'll point you at someone who is.

Indicative pricing Bespoke quote per project. Standing-cadence titles typically £4–15k/issue depending on pagination, photography and frequency. Annual and sustainability reports £25–75k. Brand newsrooms & thought leadership reports POA.
Confidential. We respond inside two working days. We can sign mutual NDAs before any further conversation.