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Zowie: Europe content production team

MG is BenQ's main production team for Europe, on location across the continent for BenQ and its esports daughter company ZOWIE.

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BenQ ZOWIE production work in Europe, from esports arena main stage to BenQ brand imagery BenQ ZOWIE production work in Europe, from esports arena main stage to BenQ brand imagery

Ten years in, nobody sends a brief any more. We get a date and a hall.

BenQ is the client, and has been for over ten years. ZOWIE is their daughter company: the esports side of the business, and the loudest half of what we shoot.

Neither brand hires us per video. We’re their main production team for Europe. When there’s an event, we’re there: traveling with the crew, wearing their branding, shooting as part of their organisation.

Event after event, the same team shows up already knowing the brand, the products, and what worked last time. That institutional knowledge is exactly what a freelancer-per-gig setup never builds.

The Major came back to Cologne, and ZOWIE was on every desk

June 2026. Cologne hosted a Counter-Strike Major for the first time in a decade, run by ESL FACEIT Group, with the playoffs in the LANXESS Arena. ZOWIE was the official monitor partner: the XL2586X+ in front of every player on stage.

We worked the whole run as ZOWIE's crew, arena and concourse. This is the recap.

The arena from the stands: two full tiers, the stage lit blue, the game running on the screens overhead
The crowd washed in red light during a round, arms up along the whole tier

Downstairs, anyone could sit at the same monitor

ZOWIE put an aim challenge into the concourse: a row of seats, the same 600Hz panel the players were using upstairs, and a score to beat. It ran all day and the queue never really cleared.

That is the picture the brand actually needs. Not the product alone on a plinth: a stranger in a knitted crown finding out what the thing does.

The ZOWIE stand from the balcony above: red floor, a row of playing stations, and a crowd around three sides
Visitors at the stand under the ZOWIE and Intel Extreme Masters wall, the XL2586X+ named as official monitor
A fist bump across the desk at the end of a run on the aim challenge
A visitor in a knitted crown playing the aim challenge, the queue waiting behind him
XL2586X+, official monitor
600Hz
Years shooting for BenQ
10+

Six months earlier, the same client with a different brief

The Budapest Major, at the end of 2025, ZOWIE again as official monitor partner. That one wanted a brand film rather than a recap. The campaign ran under Level Up As One, and the argument underneath it was that the moment everyone films is the smallest part of the story.

Thirty seconds: the crowd, the hardware, and the hours nobody points a camera at.

Everything above is the daughter company. BenQ is the client, and the reason we were there at all.

It's All About Projection

BenQ Europe took an industrial hall and filled it with the people who build things out of its projectors. Digital graffiti sprayed onto a wall with a can of light. Landscapes blended across a curved screen. Projection mapping onto model houses made for a Van Gogh exhibition. A golf simulator, an interactive table, and a rack of lenses on the way in.

Nobody stood behind a lectern. We shot the room, the demonstrations and the partner interviews, and cut the recap around them.

All About Projection sprayed in light across a projected concrete wall, a rack of spray cans below it
A guest painting a projected train carriage with a light spray can
The BenQ Light Spray can by Studio MUX, lit pink in the dark hall
Projection mapped onto model canal houses, windows and brickwork lit from the beam
Guests in front of a wide blended landscape projection, under the It's All About Projection banner
Interchangeable projector lenses laid out in a row on the demonstration table

Their name on the output. Our judgment behind the camera.

“We've worked with MG for over ten years now, shooting for BenQ, Zowie's mother company, long before Zowie existed. A partner like that is a real advantage: we understand each other's needs right away, so we can move fast and stay flexible.”

Joyce, BenQ ZOWIE Europe

Let’s work together

Fifteen minutes, no deck. Bring the product and we’ll tell you honestly what we’d do with it.

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