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Ant Hippsley established Milk & Honey’s London office in 2020 with Lucas Keller. Since then he’s grown the roster and his team – but, he explains, the UK wing of the writer-producer management company is only just getting started…
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Jungle manager Sam Denniston offers his thoughts on dinosaur record deals, TikTok, AI, going easy on DSPs and how his own neurological condition has and hasn’t impacted his career…