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
Spotify Business Wire : Spotify Announces Strategic Acquisition of Bill Simmons' The Ringer to Grow Sports Vertical Eric Jhonsa / TheStreet : Snap and Spotify Are Finding That Profitably Competing Aga...
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.
Experian sells traffic measurement company Hitwise and Simmons, publisher of National Consumer Study, to Connexity for up to $52M
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Yelp Co-Founder And CTO Russel Simmons Is Out
(Psssst. I'm leaving ...) — Yelp co-founder and CTO Russel Simmons, pictured here (left) with fellow co-founder and chief exec Jeremy Stoppelman, is leaving the company. Simmons will be transition...
Consumers Who Watch TV Online More Engaged Than TV-Set Watchers, Simmons Finds
CONSUMERS ARE 47% MORE ENGAGED in ads that run with television programs that they view online than those watched on a TV set, according to new research findings. — A cross-media study by Simmons …