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POV Video Production for Retail & E-Commerce

POV Video for
Retail & E-commerce

We turn the moment a parcel arrives, is opened and the product is picked up and used into first-person (POV) vertical short video seen exactly as a shopper sees it, and use it to drive branded search and purchases. As the first SNS marketing company in Japan to be an official Insta360 partner, we bring high-quality creative to everything end to end, from deciding what to show to filming, editing, posting on Instagram and TikTok and turning the videos that land into ads, shaped to your business.

  • TikTok
  • Instagram
  • YouTube

Why POV

4 benefits of POV video for retail and e-commerce

  • Illustration of near-identical product packs lining a retail shelf, with one lost among them

    Merit 01

    Longer viewing

    Texture and feel come through the screen

    On shelves and screens full of similar packaging, texture and feel never come across and shoppers move on. POV from the view of someone opening and handling the product keeps them watching until they can picture using it.

  • Illustration of an arrow between a phone playing vertical video and a shopping cart, broken in the middle

    Merit 02

    Path to purchase

    From watching straight to buying

    Views alone don't reach sales if people can't tell the product name or where to buy it. POV follows the user's view, so showing the product name and where it is sold along the way rarely feels like an ad.

  • Illustration of a single cashier with a queue of shoppers, stacked boxes, and empty apron hooks on the wall

    Merit 03

    No performers

    Show behind the counter without showing faces

    What register work, restocking and packing actually involve won't fit in the conditions section of a job ad. POV filmed from the staff's view with no cast can show what happens behind the sales floor.

  • Illustration of a tipped scale with a tall stack of ad-spend coins on one side and a small shopping bag on the other

    Merit 04

    More attempts

    Find winners by posting more

    Spend a large production budget on every video and the money runs out before you can test angles. POV yields many videos from few shoots, so you can try several and put ad spend only behind the ones that grow.

Numbers

Products get discovered on short video,Ordinary users' posts decide it, and 70% buy it later

64.5%

People who come across products by chance: two in three

Share who say they sometimes come across a product on social or video platforms and become interested in it

Excrie, Survey on Purchasing Behaviour on Social and Video Platforms, July 2026 (aged 15-69, n=1,200)

69.8%

What starts it most is short video

The format most likely to introduce people to a product, and the most common one for research across every category

Excrie, Survey on Purchasing Behaviour on Social and Video Platforms, July 2026 (aged 15-69, n=1,200)

63.3%

Of those who get interested, six in ten go on to buy

Share of people who came across a product by chance, became interested, and say they sometimes go on to buy it

Excrie, Survey on Purchasing Behaviour on Social and Video Platforms, July 2026 (aged 15-69, n=1,200)

34.7%

What decides the purchase is posts by ordinary users

The most influential source on purchase decisions in household goods. In fashion, official accounts lead at 30.2%

Excrie, Survey on Purchasing Behaviour on Social and Video Platforms, July 2026 (aged 15-69, n=1,200)

45.2%

Gen Z shop from social, not from search

The service people turn to first when researching a product. The four social platforms combined beat search engines on 33.6%

TaTap, Survey of Gen Z Purchasing Behaviour on Social, July 2026 (aged 15-29, n=363)

69.6%

A product seen on social: 70% buy it later

Share of people who have later gone back and bought a product they saw on social media

TaTap, Survey on Category Entry Points and Social Media, August 2026 (aged 20-49, n=435)

Why TripClear

Four reasons retail and e-commerce brands choose TripClear for POV video

  • Illustration of a studio where a person wearing a chest-mounted first-person camera is flanked by a director at a monitor and an editor in headphones

    Reason 01

    Japan's first

    A professional POV team

    We are Japan's first social media marketing company to become an official Insta360 partner. We film cutting the tape, unwrapping and using the product from the buyer's view, so likeness rights never enter the plan.

  • Illustration of play, heart and save icons rising from a row of vertical phones, with a growth curve behind and a sprout at their feet

    Reason 02

    10M+views/month

    An organic track record that speaks for itself

    Using judgment sharpened on accounts grown without ad spend, we send only the videos that grow into ads. The product name and where to buy appear in the video itself, and the same video goes on your product page and TikTok Shop.

  • Illustration of cards showing the scenes to feature, connected by arrows to a vertical video frame

    Reason 03

    Sharp angles

    Hands-on insight across industries

    We draw scenes from three angles: unboxing, use, and behind the sales floor. Once the plan is in a shape that will pass approval, we fix the shooting schedule and number of videos.

  • Illustration of icons for strategy, planning, filming, posting and analysis on a single loop around a vertical phone

    Reason 04

    Fully handled

    From filming to reuse, all in one place

    8 to 10 videos' worth from a six-hour day. Where filming isn't possible, we move the scene to a pop-up, a packing table or shelf stocking. The behind-the-floor video also goes to your job ads.

POV Image

A POV video for retail and e-commerce, pictured as one take

One example, laid out through the buyer's eyes from opening the box to using the product. The actual scenes and their order are set in the shooting plan for each product.

  1. CUT 010–3s

    First-person sketch of two hands opening a cardboard box on a table

    It's here. Open it

    Opening the box

    AimOpens on the unboxing to stop the scroll

  2. CUT 023–10s

    First-person sketch of two hands turning a sneaker to check the detail

    Texture beats the photo

    Checking it in hand

    AimShows the detail a product photo can't

  3. CUT 0310–22s

    First-person sketch looking down at new sneakers stepping out of a doorway

    Straight out the door

    Wearing it out

    AimShows it in use so viewers picture themselves

  4. CUT 0422–30s

    First-person sketch of a hand reaching for one of many sneakers on a shelf

    More colours from our profile

    Other colours on the shelf

    AimShows the range and points to the product page

Results

POV video we have produced in retail and e-commerce

POV video from Tokyo Tenryu's pudding workshop

Retail & EC / POV

Tokyo Tenryu

Vertical video showing the back of a pudding workshop in POV and sending viewers to the online shop. One of them passed a million views on its own.

1,292 clicks a month on the shop link (5x the previous month)
Over 2m views a month from 4 posts, 2,300 new followers, 1,424 saves

Process

How POV video for retail and e-commerce runs, from concept to delivery

Workflow

From the shoot plan through filming, editing and delivery. All you provide is the time to film

Illustration of the planning phase, where the scenes to show and the shooting order are decided

Phase01

Concept and shoot plan

Each video is settled before filming, in a form that will clear approval.

Illustration of the filming phase: shooting POV footage with an Insta360

Phase02

Filming

Filming is simply a camera added to the normal working day.

Illustration of the editing phase: producing captions and thumbnails

Phase03

Editing

We finish it at a pace people will watch, and hand it over in a form that takes revisions well.

Illustration of the analysis phase: reading post data and iterating

Phase04

Delivery and reuse

Not finished at delivery. The one that took off gets used to the last.

Where the videos go, and what we watch on each

TikTokdiscovery Unboxing and the moment of use, in short cuts

What we watchAverage watch time, full-view rate

Instagram Reelscomparison Size, texture and how many steps it takes, all kept in

What we watchSaves, link clicks

YouTubeShorts and longer How to use it, and comparisons, at greater length

What we watchRetention rate, subscriptions

Paid socialMeta and TikTok Winning videos delivered to buyers in the consideration phase

What we watchArrivals at the product page, cost per purchase

Product pages, in store and sales material Used on product pages, on TikTok Shop and in store

What we watchTime on the product page, conversion rate

Production only, or production with posting and analysis. Either engagement works.

FAQ

Questions we are often asked by retailers, e-commerce and consumer goods makers

Our factory and warehouse are confidential, so we can't film there. Can you still make POV video?

Yes, without going inside either. If the production line is off limits, we simply move the setting to somewhere you can get permission: arrival and use, shelves and merchandising, a pop-up. What may be filmed is listed and agreed at the first meeting.

Can you convey what's good about the product without putting anyone on camera?

It comes through better without. Moving the lead role from a person to an experience is what makes the viewer put themselves in it. The videos people watch to the end are the ones with only hands, product and sound. Where you do want people, we pair it with talent-led work and interviews.

Can we ask for production only? We'll handle posting and analysis.

Production-only engagements are welcome. Concept, filming and editing with us, posting and analysis with you. If you want posting and improvement included, see our social media management page for retail and e-commerce.

How long does delivery take? Will it make our campaign cycle?

Concept to delivery in as little as seven working days. In our experience, not having to cast talent or sign them compresses the schedule considerably. Anything with a fixed date goes into the annual plan first, and we work the shoot day back from it.

Can the videos be used in ads and on product pages? Are there any rights restrictions?

Both, and there are no rights restrictions after the engagement ends. The same video runs in paid social, on in-store screens, in sales material and as loop footage at trade shows.

Have you worked in retail or e-commerce? Could we see an example?

For Tokyo Tenryu, POV video took clicks on the online shop link to 1,292 a month, five times the month before, and four posts passed two million views in a month. The figures are on this page. When we meet, we translate it into the scenes we could film for your products.

Case studies with retail and e-commerce are shown in the results section on this page and in Works.

What does it cost, and what is the going rate?

Social media management and POV video production come as a single plan, from JPY 300,000 a month. Pricing moves with the number of videos and the ideas behind them, so we quote individually once we know how often you want to film and what the concepts are. Secondary use is allowed, and recommendations for linking with ads are included. There is no charge for filming equipment (as an official Insta360 partner, we lend it). If ads are run, media spend is charged separately at cost.

Which company runs this service?

TripClear Inc., based in Shinsen-cho, Shibuya, Tokyo. Our core is social media management and vertical short-form video production, and we support retail and e-commerce. For the company profile, see Company.

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