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TORONTO, November 11th, 2026 — Diner Agency, the Canadian talent management and influencer marketing firm, today announced a strategic alliance with HUMN Talent Group, the Toronto-based talent management agency founded by Jordan D’Amico.

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Under the agreement, HUMN’s roster will be able to tap into Diner’s 360-degree management, which includes opportunities in social media, television, music, literary, and more. Both agencies will cross-refer brand opportunities, co-pitch jointly represented talent, and open their respective networks to one another. The two firms remain fully independent.

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The alliance pairs two distinct skill sets. HUMN brings deep relationships and creative judgment in a segment of the performance and creator community where Jordan D’Amico has built considerable influence, including the queer and alternative talent HUMN is known for developing. Diner brings a decade of business management, brand sales, and traditional media experience. The combination gives each agency reach into categories and relationships it would have taken years to build independently.

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“Jordan has access and credibility in a part of the industry that is growing quickly and that brands are actively trying to reach,” said Jack Harding, founder, Diner Agency. “We’ve spent 10ten years building the business side of talent management. Bringing those two things together is a faster route to growth for both agencies than either of us could manage alone, and the talent on both rosters benefits first.”

“I’ve long admired Jack and Diner’s work in talent management and the opportunity to work closely with them in this way is a no-brainer,” said D’Amico. “HUMN has always been about working with creators and artists who have something unique to say, and with this strategic alliance, we’re excited to be able to further amplify their voices and bring their talents to new media.”

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A model Diner has run before

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The HUMN alliance follows a comparable arrangement Diner established with Danny Reiner of Spoke Entertainment in 2021. That partnership brought creative management capability into the agency alongside Reiner’s music-industry expertise, including touring, live shows, and licensing. It allowed Diner to extend its management model to recording and performing artists with the specialized support that side of the business requires, and it established the approach Diner has since applied to further expansion: identify a partner with deep standing in a segment, combine that with Diner’s business infrastructure, and grow into the category together. The HUMN agreement applies the same structure to a new segment of the market.

 

Continued growth across categories

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Harding founded Diner Agency roughly ten years ago to help performers, creatives, and public figures build businesses at a moment when an online presence became a condition of working in entertainment. A serial entrepreneur with multiple exits, Harding has founded, scaled, and sold companies across publishing, consumer technology, automotive, food and beverage, and the charitable sector, and brought that operating experience to talent representation. Diner’s roster today spans content creators, recording artists, television and broadcast personalities, and reality television alumni, and the agency reports having generated tens of millions of dollars in sales and opportunities for its clients.

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The HUMN alliance is one of several developments Diner will announce this fall. The agency will shortly confirm a number of new talent additions across [music, lifestyle, and broadcast], and is preparing to formally introduce its fine art division, developed in partnership with Mony Zakhour of Cy Baby Gallery. The division represents visual artists for brand collaborations, commissions, and licensing, and applies Diner’s management model to a category where artists have historically had limited access to commercial representation.

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“Every expansion at Diner has come from the same question: where is excellent work being done without the business infrastructure to match,” said Harding. “That was true of creators ten years ago. It was true of music when we began working with Spoke, it’s true today of the talent Jordan works with, and it’s true of fine artists. Partnerships like this one let us answer that question in more places at once.”

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About Diner Agency

Diner Agency is a Canadian talent management and influencer marketing firm providing 360-degree management to influencers, creators, celebrities, and recording and performing artists. Services include outreach and brand sales, inbound partnership management, character and archetype development, social content series, and full administrative, legal, billing, and collections support. Diner’s mandate is to diversify its clients’ revenue and build durable businesses so they can focus on creating.

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About HUMN Talent

HUMN Talent Group is a Canadian talent management agency with an emphasis on human connection. Established in 2021 with the goal of providing management services to under-represented talent, HUMN’s roster has expanded to include creators across a variety of niches, including lifestyle, food, wellness, queer voices, and drag. HUMN takes a 360-approach to its services, providing its roster with support in outreach, inbound partnership management, strategic social development and support, administration, billing, and payment.

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Media Contact
Jack Harding
Founder

jack@dineragency.com