| Disney reveals its international streaming plans, Twitter faces criticism for some promoted tweets and Spotify adds parental controls. Here's your Daily Crunch for August 19, 2019. 1. Disney+ comes to Canada and the Netherlands on Nov. 12, will support nearly all major platforms at launch The international rollout of Disney+ will begin on the same day as its U.S. launch — November 12, when the streaming service launches in The Netherlands and Canada, with Australia and New Zealand scheduled for the week after. The service will cost $6.99 per month in the U.S., $8.99 per month in Canada and €6.99 per month in the Netherlands. And Disney announced today that it will support most streaming devices at launch — including iOS, Apple TV, Google Chromecast, Android, Android TV, PlayStation 4, Roku and Xbox One. 
2. Twitter is blocked in China, but its state news agency is buying promoted tweets to portray Hong Kong protestors as violent Twitter is being criticized for running promoted tweets by China's largest state news agency that paint pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong as violent — even though the rallies, including one that drew an estimated 1.7 million people this weekend, have been described as mostly peaceful by international media. 3. Spotify Family Accounts are getting parental controls Want to give your kids access to Spotify, but only the "clean" stuff? That'll be an option soon. (And I'm sure your kids will love it.) 4. HPE Growth backs WeTransfer in €35M secondary funding round In addition to the wildly popular WeTransfer file-sharing service, the company also operates content-sharing app Collect, sketching tool Paper and collaborative presentation tool Paste. 5. Startup ads are taking over the subway Over the past few years, the companies we write about in TechCrunch are starting to show up on the subway walls — and ad prices have been going up accordingly. (Extra Crunch membership required.) 6. How-to: Exhibit for free in Startup Alley at Disrupt Berlin 2019 If you're a founder at an early-stage startup, this is your chance to win a free Startup Alley Exhibitor Package and a VIP experience in Berlin. 7. This week's TechCrunch podcasts The Equity team tries to make sense of WeWork's S-1, while the Original Content podcast reviews the Netflix martial arts series "Wu Assassins." | 
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