Disney+ to Increase Price to $8 a Month Beginning March 2021

[Packers1958]

Only $1 they say. Yea, only a dollar, which translates to a 15% monthly hike.

 

[millerlite]

Glad I bought the 3 years at $3/month deal.

 

[burgman]

Disney must really be hurting.

Yes they with almost all parks closed worldwide and laying off thousands.

 

[jgreg728]

Make Disney+ an Apple TV Channel.

 

[Tech198]

So, this is ya "streaming service" .. Lure users into a convenient trap.. (lock the door so they can't escape..). then jack up the price.

With Netflix has increased pricing in other countries, could see Disney+ doing the same...

 

[TheSkywalker77]

And here comes the first of many price increases.

See you all once it increases to $15 a month for the lowest tier plan.

 

[Brien]

Hardly surprising. Start new service with an attractive price. Once a critical mass of customers is reached, start increasing the price. As someone above said, in few years they will be at same price level as the rest.

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They’ll all end up at $20/mo.

 

[macduke]

All a part of the plan. Like we all didn’t see this coming. At least I did.

 

[normwood]

Disney+ will next year introduce a $1 price hike for subscribers in the United States, taking the monthly cost to $7.99 a month or $79.99 per year. The Disney Bundle, which includes Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN Plus, will also see a $1 increase to $13.99 a month. The price increases will come into effect on March 26, 2021.

The announcement follows Disney Investor Day, which saw the company unveil new franchises and content coming to the service, including 10 new Marvel series, 10 new Star Wars series, and several Disney Animation studios projects.

Streaming rival Netflix raised its prices in October, making its standard and premium plans more expensive. During the last Netflix earnings call, Netflix COO Greg Peters said that if Netflix is delivering more value for users, then there is "an opportunity to occasionally go back" and ask members "to pay a little bit more." Disney now looks to be using the same logic.

It remains unclear if the price increase will apply to Disney+ subscribers in other countries, but Netflix has upped prices in the U.S. before and then rolled out those price hikes to other countries shortly after.

Disney yesterday announced that its streaming service has hit 86.8 million subscribers, a milestone that it has reached 13 months after launching.

Article Link: Disney+ to Increase Price to $8 a Month Beginning March 2021

Still seems like a bargain to me.

 

[Packers1958]

Get ready for Disney+ to start pulling a Netflix. You want 4K streaming, that will be another $3 a month.

 

[Techwatcher]

86.8 million subscribers? To be fair, Apple TV+ probably has half that number.

The .8 million half.

That’s because Apple TV+ has like 4 shows. Never made sense to begin with.

 

[is1234]

Yay. 11% price hike. Wish I could jack up my prices like that.

You could try in the other way - I'm sure you could bump your prices up $1.

 

[TImm3h]

I locked in at the pay-up-front promo rate that's good for three years, and split it with my sister. I think it works out to like $3/month for both of us through November 2022.

Unfortunately that was a US only deal. I tried in Canada with no luck

 

[polaris20]

I know it is trendy, especially on MR, to bash Netflix and not everyone has the same interests. But saying Netflix does not have good content is objectively wrong. Netflix consistently releases quality content. In fact, for 2020, here is a list of Netflix shows and their rotten tomatoes score:

Dash & Lilly - 100%/83%
The Crown - 97%/83%
Queens Gambit - 99%/96%
Teenage Bounty Hunters - 92%/96%
The Umbrella Academy - 90%/89%

And that is just their recent releases. Yes, Netflix releases a massive number of shows, some are successful and some are not. But they definitely have very good, if not great shows.

I don't think you understand what "objectively" means. You can't objectively state a site has content that appeals to everyone. I don't really give a **** what Rotten Tomatoes says, four of those shows are of no interest to me, and The Umbrella Academy's second season sucked.