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From the moment you tip back into the shampoo basin to the last look in the mirror. We produce POV video shot exactly as the person in the chair sees it, from concept through filming and editing, with no on-camera talent.
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Numbers
274,070premises
Salons are still increasing
Registered beauty premises in Japan. Stylists in employment number 579,768, and both figures are up on the previous year
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Report on Public Health Administration and Services, as of March 202477.5%
Visits have fallen four years running
Share of women using a hair salon (down 1.7pt year on year). Men are at 32.7%, down 1.8pt
Recruit Hot Pepper Beauty Academy, Beauty Census H1 2026 (13,200 men and women aged 15-69)4.30visits
Four visits a year. Teens, 2.7
Annual salon visits by women. Ages 15-19 average 2.71 and women in their sixties 5.61: the younger the client, the fewer the visits
Recruit Hot Pepper Beauty Academy, Beauty Census H1 2025 (women, n=5,000)36.7%
What people look at is who is good at what
The most-valued element on a salon page on a booking site: being able to see what each stylist is good at. Staff photos come in at 31.1%
Recruit Hot Pepper Beauty Academy, Beauty Census H1 2025 (women who use booking sites, n=3,968)24.6%
Photos in greater number get seen more
Share who rate plenty of photos as important. Among 15-19s it rises to 40.0%
Recruit Hot Pepper Beauty Academy, Beauty Census H1 2025 (women who use booking sites, n=3,968)17.9%
Stopped updating? Photos lose points for that alone
Share who rate lots of new photos and frequent updates as important. Among 15-19s, 30.5%
Recruit Hot Pepper Beauty Academy, Beauty Census H1 2025 (women who use booking sites, n=3,968)Issues
01
All a listing site lets people compare is price and discount. Neither your skill nor the feel of the salon comes through, and the commission still gets added.
The fixWe show the hands at work and the mood of the salon in first-person video, so people have a reason to choose you other than price.
02
The more you lean on individual stylists' posts, the less settled the salon's own image becomes. When someone leaves, the material leaves with them.
The fixWe map out the treatments the salon wants seen and turn them into assets that stay when people leave.
03
Put a stylist behind the camera and that hour brings in no treatments. Filming is always what gets pushed back.
The fixOne or two batch shoots a month in weekday downtime. Nobody stops cutting hair.
04
Beauty students search the salon's name before they apply. With nothing to find, all they see is what former staff wrote.
The fixOn the same shoot day we film one video from the stylist's side and put it on your recruitment page.
Solution
01
Your signature menu, the shampoo basin, colour application, the finishing blow-dry. We list the treatments the salon wants seen, then set the order and the number of videos.
02
The hands at work, and the view from the chair. Your skill and the feel of the salon, shown as they are. It becomes an asset that belongs to the salon, not to one stylist.
03
Once or twice a month, timed to weekday downtime. Two hours gives us enough for twelve videos. For multi-site salons we also film cuts that work across locations.
04
We read the response from saves and average watch time, then push the winners into ads aimed at your catchment and your booking page, and onto your recruitment page. That gives you a way in that isn't a coupon.
What we watchAverage watch time, full-view rate
What we watchSaves, clicks on the booking link
What we watchRetention rate, subscriptions
What we watchCompleted bookings, applications, cost per acquisition
What we watchRequests to visit, time on the booking page
Take us on for production alone, or for posting and analysis as well. Either works.
Results
Hair Salon / POV
Built around short video following an assistant's day in POV, we produced the video for the salon's account.
2 months to 23,000 followers
Graduate applications 6 to 180 (30x)
Hair Salon / Watch Time
The treatment and the conversation in the salon, in first person. We built up video that people watch to the end.
Average watch time 37.55 seconds
Full-view rate 14.3%
Before a client opens the door, none of what the salon is worth is visible.
Our job runs all the way to making it visible.
Process
Concept and shoot plan, then filming, editing and delivery. All the salon provides is the time to film
Phase01
What gets decided before filming is which moment of which treatment to show.
The signature menu, the shampoo basin, colour application, the finishing blow-dry. We lay out the candidates, and at this stage also set how many videos go to acquisition and how many to hiring.
Phase02
A way of filming that never stops the stylists' hands.
One camera operator traces the hands at work and the view from the chair. Filming happens in weekday downtime or around opening and closing. The waiting area and client records stay out of frame.
Phase03
Editing tightens the pace until people watch to the end.
Cuts of 0.8 to 1.8 seconds set the pace, and we deliberately keep the sound of the scissors and the dryer. Any claim about the result is checked against the Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Act and the Act against Unjustifiable Premiums and Misleading Representations.
Phase04
Delivery isn't the end. It's the start of working the one that took off.
Concept to delivery takes as little as seven working days. Secondary use is included, so the video goes straight into paid social, recruitment pages, booking pages and in-salon signage.
FAQ
It comes through without talent. POV moves the lead role from a person to an experience: the camera traces the stylist's hands and the client's line of sight, so viewers watch it as though they were in that chair. If you do want faces, we plan that separately.
We build the shoot so they never enter the frame. The standard angles are the hands, the back of the head and reflections in the mirror. We don't film angles that catch the waiting area, lockers, client records or other clients. If staff appear on camera, we agree written consent and a deletion policy at the first meeting.
We fit shoot days into the gaps in your diary. With one operator tracing the hands at work, two hours is enough for twelve videos. We can also lend you the equipment and have your own staff film, splitting the work between us.
From everything we have run, sticking to one format is what wears thin. We keep POV as the mainstay and mix in behind-the-scenes, a day in a stylist's life and trend-led ideas, swapping them as the response tells us. Anything that takes off is built to run as an ad too.
You can start with a single video. For ongoing work there are three plans: five, eight or twelve videos a month. The salon work we have done is on this page.
All of those. Secondary use is included, so they transfer straight to paid social, booking pages, recruitment pages and in-salon signage. We check how the result is described against pharmaceutical and advertising rules before editing.
Services
End-to-end support from account strategy through filming, editing, posting and analytics
First-person short-form video. No cast, fast turnaround, low cost — and the experience comes through
Cast the right creators for your goal from a network of over 20 million combined followers
Small tests identify the winners first, so budget goes only where it drives traffic and revenue
Multilingual social marketing that maximizes the inbound visitors you attract
Awareness, conversion tracking and nurturing in one pipeline, powered by our playbooks and AI
Recruitment marketing that reaches the 94% job boards never touch, through short-form video ads made for you
End-to-end Japan market entry for overseas brands: localization strategy, official social accounts, POV video, PR and on-site activation
Shopify and BASE store operations, plus channel manager, LINE and Meta ads integration with your booking system, so your marketing has somewhere to land
Free consultations and quotes available
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