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Sam Hui, Canto Pop and Canto Poppin’ Hong Kong!
These are the days when Hong Kong needs the Sam Hui from the Seventies back again- and which is not something totally impossible, despite...

Hans Ebert
Aug 54 min read


Rebooting Hong Kong’s creative menopause
It might not have been headline news, but during these surreal times around the world, taking small steps small can be better, because...

Hans Ebert
Aug 45 min read


A Happy Wednesday full of Hope…
Race meeting 88- a lucky number in Chinese superstition- brought the beaded curtain down on another horse racing season. At least to...

Hans Ebert
Jul 174 min read


BEING PROUD TO BE AN ASIAN, PAPADUMS!
It’s about creating the perfect buffet- not about mixing a chicken Madras curry with linguine and tapas and some croquettes, but bringing...

Hans Ebert
Jul 154 min read


Here comes Da ZacStar and the New Happy Ride.
Yes, jockey Zac Purton is all about horse racing and winning on horses- but this doesn’t mean that he is a one trick pony. Here’s a...

Hans Ebert
Jul 35 min read


KEEPING PACE WITH HORSE RACING AND THE TAO OF ZAC
I don’t know Zac Purton well, but I feel that I know him better than perhaps he knows himself. Confused? Being on the outside of the Hong...

Hans Ebert
Jun 264 min read


About Hope and those musical stories that Hope brings.
Ideas are a dime a dozen. Everyone has an idea for something or another every other day. Usually, this idea leads back to the person or...

Hans Ebert
Jun 93 min read


DOUGH BROS: CANTO POPPIN’ GOOOOOOOD!!!
It’s all in the packaging, and, at least for me and some of my friends, there’s something about the Dough Bros brand in Hong Kong that...

Hans Ebert
Jun 42 min read


WHAT WILL BE HORSE RACING’S LEGACY WHEN EVERYTHING HAS BEEN SAID AND DONE?
These are extremely strange and evolutionarily revolutionary times for every industry including horse racing led by-where does one...

Hans Ebert
May 303 min read


Influencers And The Numbers Game and The KISS THEORY.
“Music has always been about fans liking the looks of an artist and which leads them to their songs. It’s never been about algorithms and...

Hans Ebert
May 223 min read


ADDRESSING THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM: HORSE RACING AND ITS WARNING SIGN.
The problem with horse racing- and it has many problems and this has been said many times over- is that it just keeps talking and talking...

Hans Ebert
May 214 min read


When the world is falling apart…
Because the political hyperbole has seeped into daily lives and, of course, businesses, I was again reminded of what my mentor in...

Hans Ebert
May 214 min read


DUH, DOH AND DOUGH BROS CREATIVITY!
At a time when creative marketing and overall creativity are thin on the ground in Hong Kong, we take our hats off to the marketing...

Hans Ebert
May 141 min read


THE BIG FULLER PICTURE
Yesterday, I read the news about my longtime friend and globally successful entrepreneur Simon Fuller, below, being in Hong Kong to “find...

Hans Ebert
May 142 min read


WHY BEING IN MARKETING MEANS ALWAYS THINKING AHEAD…
Marketing and advertising, in particular, music marketing, are things that I have been doing and deep diving into for a living- and for a...

Hans Ebert
May 146 min read


HONG KONG, HORSE RACING AND THE FULLER PICTURE
What’s interesting about Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges, the CEO of the Hong Kong Jockey Club, persuading Simon Fuller to sit at the table...

Hans Ebert
May 122 min read


A GLOBAL JOCKEYS LEAGUE, PERHAPS. BUT IS THERE SOMETHING ELSE ABOUT TO BE SERVED UP?
A few decades ago, my good friend and now former jockey John Didham and I came up with the idea for The Tongue Scraper- a half toothbrush...

Hans Ebert
May 74 min read


WIRED AND WEIRD
********************* HAVEN’T THEIR RACES ALREADY BEEN RUN? The idea of a series of horse races around the world featuring “elite”...

Hans Ebert
May 63 min read


WHEN TOURISM SUDDENLY DISCOVERS THE NEW WORLD OF HORSE RACING…
The horse racing industry is a strange one to describe, because, well, it means different things to different people- a gambling driven...

Hans Ebert
May 44 min read


FAST FWD TO WHERE WE NEED TO BE HEADING…
When with Universal Music, and then EMI Music, certain artists were given to us from head office as Global Priorities, we had our...

Hans Ebert
Apr 275 min read
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