Kane Diep / Strategy, storytelling & speaking

Stories people care about.
Audiences that grow.

Kane helps entertainment brands and creative teams turn audience insight into social strategy and stories worth sharing.

0 → 23.5M followers on Prime Video’s TikTok

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LOS ANGELES · WORKING WITH TEAMS EVERYWHERE

How Kane can help

A clear direction.
Something worth making.

Bring Kane into the strategy, the creative process or the conversation.

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01 / CONSULTING & CREATIVE STRATEGY

Give your next idea a clear direction.

Audience and channel reviews, content formats, creator strategy and a practical plan for what to test next. Built around your team’s goals.

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02 / SPEAKING, WORKSHOPS & MEDIA

Bring a human angle to the conversation.

Team sessions, university talks, panels, podcasts and interviews on storytelling, representation, creative strategy and finding a voice.

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The story behind the strategy.

Cosette Jarrett profiles Kane’s approach to growing Prime Video’s TikTok through experimentation and inclusive storytelling.

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Selected work

Creative instincts.
Measurable impact.

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Prime Video

TIKTOK & YOUTUBE LEAD

Prime Video stories.
Built to scale.

600M+

views for the Webby-winning Plot Pitches series

Kane led the strategy and creative team behind Plot Pitches, developing and scaling the format into a Webby-winning series with 600M+ views.

2020–2025 · Led 15 creatives and analysts · Strategy across 300+ titles

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Kane with his team behind Prime Video’s Webby-winning Plot Pitches series.
Team USAWinter Olympics

VIA SHAREABILITY · 2026

Team USA: 126M views across the Games.

Kane led Team USA’s YouTube channel strategy through Shareability for the 2026 Winter Olympics and Paralympics. From January 26 to March 16, the channel generated 126M views, 1.56M watch hours and 70K new subscribers.

Alysa Liu’s gold-medal moment6.7M views · 463K watch hours as of March 16, 2026. Kane’s role: YouTube channel strategy through Shareability.Watch on YouTube ↗︎
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BuzzFeed

PRODUCER & DIRECTOR · 2015–2019

200+ videos. People at the center.

Personal stories and creative experiments, plus a channel turnaround that grew average views per video from 400K to 2M.

I Asked My Mom 11 Intimate Questions Before It’s Too Late

5.2M views

A personal conversation about family and the questions worth asking.

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“From day one, Kane immediately understood our vision and ran with it.”
Mo FinnSenior Director of Content
Client, Team USA project
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BuzzFeed

SELECTED FILMS & VIDEOS

Four years at BuzzFeed.
Stories with staying power.

Family, identity and the conversations people don’t always know how to start. Selected stories Kane directed and produced at BuzzFeed.

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Children of Asian Immigrants Reveal Sacrifices Their Parents Made

8.4M views

Family, sacrifice and the legacies passed between generations.

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Why I’m Coming Out as Gay

9.6M views

An honest conversation about identity and being seen.

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Asian Americans Recreate Iconic Magazine Covers

3.6M views

A visual experiment in representation and who gets to be the cover story.

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Speaking, team sessions & interviews

Good stories.
Useful conversations.

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From a talk in front of 500 students to university documentary screenings and Q&As, Kane brings a filmmaker’s eye and a strategist’s experience to the room.

Princeton UniversityUniversity of PennsylvaniaBoston University
“The words that you had to share truly made all of us smile, laugh, and cry together.”
Executive Board of Asian Student Union
Boston University
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Feature documentary / Director & co-producer

Uploaded:
The Asian American Movement

Uploaded: The Asian American Movement poster with Philadelphia and San Diego festival selection laurels and Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival Grand Jury Award nomination

Kane directed and co-produced this feature documentary about Asian American creators finding their voices and building audiences online. Through 60 interviews, including Jon M. Chu and Randall Park, it explores what changes when people get to tell their own stories.

Grand Jury Award nominee · Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival

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A little about Kane

Curiosity is
the throughline.

Kane Diep is a filmmaker, social strategist and speaker who connects personal storytelling with large-scale creative leadership. His work spans 200+ BuzzFeed videos, Prime Video’s growth from zero to 23.5 million TikTok followers, and Team USA’s YouTube strategy for the Winter Olympics and Paralympics.

Raised in San Diego by Chinese-Vietnamese refugee parents, Kane brings a personal perspective to questions of identity, family and belonging. As a gay Asian American storyteller, that curiosity shapes how he leads creative teams, connects with audiences and helps others find their voice.

Cue Drop improv prompt app

A different kind of creative experiment

Sometimes curiosity becomes an app.

From improv prompts to packing lists: eight small tools for everyday life and creative play.

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MAKE SOMETHING MATTER

Work with Kane.
Make your next move.

Share your team or publication, your audience, what you need and your timing. Consulting, speaking, podcasts, collaborations and hiring inquiries are welcome.

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