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Following a price increase in the United States and Canada earlier this year, Netflix is raising its prices in the UK as well. According to Cord Busters, all of Netflix's plans are going to be more expensive going forward.

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The Standard plan with Ads is £1 more expensive at £5.99 per month, while the Standard plan is now priced at £12.99 per month, a £2 increase. The high-end premium plan costs £18.99 per month, up £1 from the prior £17.99 per month price.

The UK price hike is in line with the price increases that Netflix made in the United States. The Standard with Ads plan is $7.99 (up $1), the Standard plan is $17.99 per month (up $2), and the Premium plan is $24.99 per month (up $2).

When raising prices in the United States, Netflix said that it will use the money to provide more value to subscribers. "As we continue to invest in programming and deliver more value for our members, we will occasionally ask our members to pay a little more so that we can re-invest to further improve Netflix."

Netflix's price increases and crackdowns on password sharing have been successful for the company. In the fourth quarter of 2024, Netflix gained 19 million new subscribers and saw 16 percent revenue growth. Netflix has more than 300 million paying subscribers, and it is expecting continued growth in 2025.

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Queue (spelling play for the brits) the whining and calls for thievery.

The cost is still very reasonable IF you don't expect to be subscribed to them all at once. Sub, binge, unsub, rinse and repeat FTW. If you rotate and have only 2 or 3 active at a time the cost vs consumption is very reasonable.

Cue (corrected because the joke missed) my friend @turbineseaplane telling us all that steaming services will soon cancel monthly subs. Perhaps, but until that day, use the advice above!

The math is very simple, if you apply some discipline. Lets just say, all streaming services are $20/month:
  • If your household consumes 20 hours of content per week that is 80 hours of content per month.
  • If you subscribe to 2 services at a time that would be $40 cost for 80 hours of content or .50 per hour of content, really reasonable in my book. Wouldn't you pay $1 for your entire household to watch a 2 hour movie?
  • If you subscribe to 10 services at a time that would be $200 cost for 80 hours of content or $2.50 per hour, only you can judge if this is still a good value for you but it is certainly more than .50/hour.
Lastly, cue the red thumbs. :rolleyes: Feel free to challenge the idea, I'll wait.

Edit: LOL, 8 red thumbs but not one of them challenged the logic. :rolleyes:
 
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CarpalMac said:
£227.88 a year. Compare that to Amazon Prime and all that you get, which is £95.

Let that sink in for a minute...
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You are looking at it the wrong way.

The correct question is, how much content does Netflix have that you value? If you can consume content for a year then divide that cost by the number of hours you consumed and get back to me with the end result. My guess is that it will be fairly reasonable.

Using my math above at $227.88 for the year divided by 960 hours (80/month X 12) of content = .23 per hour. Feeling silly now? What else can you do for .23/hour?

If Netflix only has 1 month worth of content you value, but you subscribe for 12 months, that is on you for having poor math skills. (not you personally, people in general)

PS - Your Prime example is with ads.
 
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Queue the whining and calls for thievery.

The cost is still very reasonable IF you don't expect to be subscribed to them all at once. Sub, binge, unsub, rinse and repeat FTW. If you rotate and have only 2 or 3 active at a time the cost vs consumption is very reasonable.

Queue my friend @turbineseaplane telling us all that steaming services will soon cancel monthly subs. Perhaps, but until that day, use the advice above!

The math is very simple, if you apply some discipline. Lets just say, all streaming services are $20/month:
  • If your household consumes 20 hours of content per week that is 80 hours of content per month.
  • If you subscribe to 2 services at a time that would be $40 cost for 80 hours of content or .50 per hour of content, really reasonable in my book. Wouldn't you pay $1 for your entire household to watch a 2 hour movie?
  • If you subscribe to 10 services at a time that would be $200 cost for 80 hours of content or $2.50 per hour, only you can judge if this is still a good value for you but it is certainly more than .50/hour.
Lastly, queue the red thumbs. :rolleyes: Feel free to challenge the idea, I'll wait.
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The word is cue.
 
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I'm scraping Netflix. It's a great service and the price is reasonable compared to other services that provide much less programming... I just don't use it enough and it's a waste. Its easy to lose track of all the $10 and $15 subscriptions for entertainment and software, which is exactly why that model works so well.
 
The days where one could find rumours about Apple and Macs on macrumors.com are gone.

Instead we can find news about subscription services and other unrelated topics on this page. I heard a rumour about a rebrand.
 
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If only you could watch movies and TV shows you like on the internets without outrageous Netflix subscription, which forces you to pay for mediocre content... What if someone would create efficient protocol to download movies for free, like a stream of bits?

Well, one can dream.
 
Disappointing to hear about price hike. Prices of all streaming services are increases every once in a while. Hopefully this will be the last hike for some time.
 
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icanhazmac said:
Queue (spelling play for the brits) the whining and calls for thievery.
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Lastly, cue the red thumbs. :rolleyes: Feel free to challenge the idea, I'll wait.
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You honestly don’t need to highlight that a spelling is different, it’s called English for a reason.

And yes, the downvote button is also there for a reason - people are entitled to disagree and you seem to be very defensive about this.
 
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One thing I don't understand about these price hikes...

Disney+ just did it and lost 700,000 subscribers as a result.
Netflix are doing it and will loose subscribers too.

Surely its better to have more subscribers paying less, than having less subscribers paying more?
Don't viewing figures matter in the ever desperate grab for cash?
 
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It’s not going to break the bank but I’m going to downgrade out of principle. I would cancel altogether but my wife and kid like Netflix to be on permanently subscription.

I’ve cancelled Disney plus and all the other services I just subscribe if there is a show to watch.

If it’s just one thing to watch I prefer to buy the physical copy or digital copy rather than subscribe for a month.
 

TL;DR:​

  • Raising prices trims excess users → avoids premature infrastructure upgrades → saves costs while making more money.
  • It’s not just about getting more cash per user—it’s about optimizing load on their tech stack.


For me personally the price is to high I watch perhaps 30 min pr day (roughly 1 episode every 2 days) @icanhazmac But for many i aggrege.

(and yes even so 169 dkk pr month - 23.60 US Dollars (USD). or 18.87 British Pounds (GBP))

so that is roughly 16,9 DKK pr hour of entertainment (since we in average watches 10 hour pr. month i estimate) - so yes cheap compared to going to the movies- but then we also have Disney + and HBO and TV2 Play (Danish Station)
so it ads up over the year.

Also i think many people are missing the math that Netflix is doing

10.000.000 - 10 million people paying 7,99£ = 79,9£ Millions

Then they up the price 1 £ and perhaps looses 1 in 10 (i dont think they will lose 10%) but lets say they did
they loose 10 % but they upped the price by 11% so they still make more money

9.000.000 - 9 million people paying 8,99£ = 80,91£ Millions

so EVEN if 10% is leaving they make more money (only on the low tier, on the high tier it would hurt if 10% left) since its a much lower % price jump.

in the optimal world they had only 1 subscriber that payee the 80,9 £ millions - here is why

for every stream you have going out you need hardware to support this, so it is in their interest to trim their user base if they get to much outgoing traffic.

so they save money on
1) Hardware
2) Internet fees for outgoing traffic
3) things like customers support, if you have fewer customers you need fewer support people.


We just quit all of our streaming services (Disney+ , Netflix, and HBO) so when this month end we will have non.
 
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Rygaard said:

TL;DR:​

  • Raising prices trims excess users → avoids premature infrastructure upgrades → saves costs while making more money.
  • It’s not just about getting more cash per user—it’s about optimizing load on their tech stack.


For me personally the price is to high I watch perhaps 30 min pr day (roughly 1 episode every 2 days) @icanhazmac But for many i aggrege.

(and yes even so 169 dkk pr month - 23.60 US Dollars (USD). or 18.87 British Pounds (GBP))

so that is roughly 16,9 DKK pr hour of entertainment (since we in average watches 10 hour pr. month i estimate) - so yes cheap compared to going to the movies- but then we also have Disney + and HBO and TV2 Play (Danish Station)
so it ads up over the year.

Also i think many people are missing the math that Netflix is doing

10.000.000 - 10 million people paying 7,99£ = 79,9£ Millions

Then they up the price 1 £ and perhaps looses 1 in 10 (i dont think they will lose 10%) but lets say they did
they loose 10 % but they upped the price by 11% so they still make more money

9.000.000 - 9 million people paying 8,99£ = 80,91£ Millions

so EVEN if 10% is leaving they make more money (only on the low tier, on the high tier it would hurt if 10% left) since its a much lower % price jump.

in the optimal world they had only 1 subscriber that payee the 80,9 £ millions - here is why

for every stream you have going out you need hardware to support this, so it is in their interest to trim their user base if they get to much outgoing traffic.

so they save money on
1) Hardware
2) Internet fees for outgoing traffic
3) things like customers support, if you have fewer customers you need fewer support people.


We just quit all of our streaming services (Disney+ , Netflix, and HBO) so when this month end we will have non.
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Diseconomies of scale, yes
 
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You honestly don’t need to highlight that a spelling is different, it’s called English for a reason.

And yes, the downvote button is also there for a reason - people are entitled to disagree and you seem to be very defensive about this.
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Cue and Queue are 2 different words with different meanings. Both used extensively in the UK. I suspect the OP was trying to be clever, but ended up looking foolish :)
 
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