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Case Study · Owned Nightlife

The room we own.

Hanami Nights × Lo3tus 00:00 · Long Island City August 8, 2026

Asia's club culture, brought here.

Hanami Nights is ours. Not a client brief. A pan-Asian nightlife series we created, own, and operate, built to give Asian club culture a real home in American cities rather than a themed one-off.

The first New York night moved more than a thousand people. The August 8 edition at 00:00 in Long Island City is the follow-up, headlined by Lo3tus with Jokah, Nari, and Serenity across the night.

The premise

Own the property, not just the booking.

Most nightlife work is service work: someone else's brand, someone else's room, a fee for the night. Hanami is the opposite. We hold the name, the audience, the ticketing, and the calendar, which means every night compounds into the next one instead of ending at load-out.

That changes what we can offer a partner. Brands aren't buying a logo on a flyer, they're entering a room we control, with a crowd we built and can reach again next month.

It also changes how we book talent. We negotiate directly with artists and their management, cover travel and hospitality, and structure agreements ourselves, so the lineup is chosen for the room rather than inherited from a promoter's list.

Hanami Nights August 8 flyer, Lo3tus headlining at 00:00 in Long Island City
The campaign

One image, one decision.

In nightlife, the flyer is the product page. A headliner people trust, a room they recognize, a date, and a link. Art direction, artist assets, partner marks, and ticket routing all resolved into a single frame built for the feed.

1,000+
Through the door on the first New York night
4
Talent booked direct
Owned
Series, audience, and ticketing held by us
Aug 8
Next night at 00:00, Long Island City
What we run

Every layer, in house.

01

Talent booking

Direct with artists and management, contracts and fees structured by us.

02

Travel & hospitality

Flights, hotels, ground, and the room the artist actually wants.

03

Brand & art direction

The series identity and every asset the night is sold on.

04

Ticketing & pricing

Tiered releases, referral tracking, and partner sales attribution.

05

Marketing & promotion

Campaign rollout, creator seeding, paid and organic, city by city.

06

Partners

Venue, promoter, and brand partners integrated into the night itself.

07

Production

Door, floor, and run of show, from first arrival to last call.

08

Content & recap

The night captured and cut, so it sells the next one before it happens.

The throughline

We stopped waiting for someone to book the room. We built it.

Hanami Nights · 00:00 Long Island City · August 8, 2026
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