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1:20 PM ET, February 5, 2020

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Peter Kafka / Vox:
Spotify will buy The Ringer, the podcast-centric media company run and owned by Bill Simmons, and plans to hire Simmons and his approximately 90 employees  —  The Ringer CEO Bill Simmons in 2015 |  Photo by Mike Windle/Getty Images for Vanity Fair  —  It's the fourth podcast deal Spotify has done in a year.
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Spotify reports Q4 revenue of $2B, up 24% YoY; 271M total MAUs, up 31% YoY, as paying users rise 29% YoY to 124M; 16% of its MAUs engage with podcast content  —  Streaming music now accounts for more than 80% of all music consumption in key markets like the US, and one of the big leaders in the field is reaping some of the rewards.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: DOJ reached out to more than a dozen publishers, ad agencies, and ad tech rivals of Google as its online ad tools become a focus of antitrust probe  —  Antitrust enforcers have reached out to more than a dozen publishers, ad tech rivals and ad agencies
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Disney says Disney+ will roll out to Western Europe in March and India on March 29 through Hotstar; Disney plans to launch Hulu internationally as soon as 2021  —  Hulu will finally expand outside of the U.S., likely as soon as next year.  This tidbit of news was confirmed by Disney Chairman …
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Emily McCormick / Yahoo Finance:
Disney beats analyst expectations for Q1, reporting $20.86B in Q1 revenue, up 36% YoY, 26.5M subscribers for Disney+, and 30.4M for Hulu, up 33% YoY
Kayleigh Barber / Digiday:
Verizon Media launches a new, millennial-focused personal finance site called Cashay  —  Verizon Media is launching on Wednesday a new personal finance site for Generation Z and millennials called Cashay.  —  The site will feature a mixture of content, including original stories …
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
President Trump awarded Rush Limbaugh with the Medal of Freedom during Tuesday's State of the Union  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump awarded the Medal of Freedom to conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh on Tuesday in an unprecedented move during the State of the Union address.
Esther Kezia Thorpe / What's New in Publishing:
Bauer tests bundled app subscriptions with Bikes Unlimited, an app that includes all six of Bauer UK's motorcycle titles, for £7.99 a month or £89.99 per year  —  Digital magazine apps have had a hard time over the past decade.  Promises of rich multimedia iPad editions fell flat …
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Instagram generated ~$20B in advertising revenue in 2019, making up more than a quarter of Facebook's revenue  —  - Unit brought in about $20 billion in 2019, people familiar say  — Photo-sharing app has gained in importance since 2012 purchase
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
Source says The Epoch Times has spent more than $1M on YouTube ads, with its spending increasing sharply in the months after Facebook's August ban on its ads  —  The paper, started by practitioners of Falun Gong, has turned to the video platform for an advertising blitz.
 
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Reuters:
Researchers says hackers with ties to the Iranian government posed as journalists from WSJ, CNN, and Deutsche Well to target academics and researchers
Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette:
Sun on Sunday editor Victoria Newton will become the new editor of The Sun as its editor Tony Gallagher moves to The Times as deputy editor
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
UK government launches a public consultation on proposals to stop prosecuting people for non-payment of the license fee
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Christine Sun Kim / New York Times:
Fox failed to show the full American Sign Language performance of the national anthem at the Super Bowl on TV or online, making it inaccessible for the deaf
David McCabe / New York Times:
Disney, MPAA, News Media Alliance are among those lobbying to limit Section 230, citing copyright concerns, threatening Google, FB, and the web as we know it