Travel with Kaede
Short-form travel content that doesn’t feel like an ad.
We’re Jamie & Kaede, a creator duo making authentic vertical travel videos for restaurants, brands, eSIM companies, and tourism operators across Asia and South America. Every clip is filmed in-place, edited with intent, and built to convert viewers into customers.
食Famous restaurants of Peru.
Video collaborations with some of Lima’s best-known kitchens, built around the food, the room, and the people who run them. Click any phone to play the reel.
From the owners
We’ve stayed close with every owner featured here — each one originally reached out to us — and the message back is always the same: the people kept coming. Not a quick weekend bump that faded, but a steady, lasting lift in guests through the door long after the video went live. Our reels reach people who genuinely seek out good food, and once they’ve been, they tell everyone they know. That word-of-mouth is the real return, and it keeps compounding well beyond the post itself.
旅Lifestyle & travel brands.
Collabs beyond the dinner table: gear, stays, and experience operators. Different brief, same instinct for the moment that earns the scroll.
工Salem Studio.
Productions with Salem Studio, a creative agency we partner with on multi-brand campaigns. Brief-led, deadline-driven, paid-media ready.
Every video comes with the work behind the work.
Short-form looks effortless on the screen. It’s anything but. Here’s what’s baked into every collab. By default, no upsell.
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Real, not rehearsed.
No stiff scripts, no plastic delivery. Every video is filmed in the moment: eating where we eat, walking where we walk. Brands hire us because the camera disappears.
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Edited frame by frame.
We cut for rhythm, beat, and pacing. Not for length. Every clip earns its place. Colour-graded for warmth, sound-designed for scroll-stop, captioned for sound-off feeds.
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Research before rolling.
Before we land, we already know your menu, your story, the angle the local press has missed. Strategy is baked into the brief, not bolted on after.
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Built for the algorithm.
Hooks engineered for the first 1.5 seconds. Pacing tuned for retention. Trends woven in only when they fit the brand. Two years of paid-media insights, applied to every cut.
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Your tone of voice, kept.
We adapt to the brand. Casual or refined, playful or premium. We read the room before we hit record. Your audience shouldn’t notice the shift.
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One free revision per video.
Honest collaboration over rigid hand-offs. If the first cut isn’t landing, we’ll re-edit at no cost, within reason and within scope.
How we build content that converts.
Pretty is easy. Converting is the hard part. Every video we ship runs the same five-beat structure, rooted in human psychology, not in trends, so brands don’t just get views, they get results.
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Hook
Three seconds to earn the scroll. Visual hook, text hook, audio hook, caption hook, engineered together so the thumb stops before the brain catches up.
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Problem
Surface a real, everyday pain: the kind your audience already feels but hasn’t named. Without complexifying it. Without manufacturing urgency.
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Solution
Show the product in motion, in the place it belongs. Position the brand as the hero, not the headline. This is where belief starts to build.
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Payoff
Reinforce the why and the how. Unique features, emotional lift, lifestyle shift, surfaced in a way that feels human, modern, and worth sharing.
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Call
Close with a confident, natural call to action. The viewer knows exactly what to do next, and doesn’t feel sold to on the way there.
Two passports. One lens.
We’re a couple of New Zealanders shooting short-form travel content from wherever we happen to be that month. The accent in front of the camera is Kiwi; the eye behind it is half Chinese, half Japanese, fully obsessed with food and the way places feel after dark.
Jamie is NZ-born Chinese, a marketer-turned-creator who spent years building paid-media campaigns before falling for the rawness of TikTok. Kaede was born in Japan and moved to New Zealand at nine, splitting her childhood between Auckland weekends and Tokyo summers. Two cultures, one shared instinct for what makes a place worth filming.
We work with brands, restaurants, tourism operators, and eSIM companies who want content that earns trust, not just impressions. If the brief respects the trip more than the photo op, we’re probably the right fit.
- Jamie
- NZ-born Chinese
- Kaede
- Japan-born, NZ-raised
Let’s kick off a great partnership.
Tell us about the trip, the brand, the brief, even if it’s just an idea. We reply within 48 hours, and we’ll tell you straight if we’re the wrong fit.
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