Finding new subscribers in a saturated streaming video market isn't easy. And with legacy media companies desperate to recoup revenue declines in their linear TV businesses, the cost of your monthly plan is likely to keep rising.

After years of inflation, Americans are used to sticker shock. But nothing compares to the surging price of streaming video.

Last week, Apple TV+ became the latest streaming service to raise its price—up from $6.99 to $9.99 per month—following the example of Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+, and Netflix, which all hiked their prices in October.

Half of the major streaming platforms in the U.S. now charge a monthly fee that’s double the price they charged when they initially came to market. And many of these streaming services haven’t even been around for 10 years.

  • Syl@jlai.lu
    6·
    1 year ago

    I guess the complexity to pirate things. Or people forgot how to.

    • pufferfischerpulver@feddit.de
      6·
      1 year ago

      I’ve been sailing the high seas for almost 20 years now. It’s never been easier to pirate things. Stremio and a well known service honestly beats all steaming services both in quantity and quality of the “catalogue”. At least for English language content.

      • Syl@jlai.lu
        1·
        1 year ago

        I never stopped as well, but I hear young people saying stuff like “what do we do”…

        In France, there was also Hadopi at some point, so people were afraid to pirate stuff, that’s how they won.