Netflix Raising U.S. Prices Yet Again, Premium Plan Now Costs $23/Month

[Rychiar]

Hulu ads are just awful. I too many, and I wouldn't use that even if THEY, paid ME, to do so :\

Aside from them making it tricky to fast forward I don’t find them that bad and the movies generally don’t have them at all🤷‍♂️

 

[subjonas]

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Netflix annual/quarterly net income history and growth rate from 2010 to 2023. Net income can be defined as company's net profit or loss after all revenues, income items, and expenses have been accounted for. <ul style='margin-top:10px;'> <li>Netflix net income for the quarter...

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None of which makes increasing fees look good, unless one is deeply married to capitalism and lives on the receiving end of that profit, of course. Which brings me back to square one of my initial point.

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Thanks for the source.
Salaries/savings/growth are necessary parts of running a public company. And profit growth is a required goal. That said, companies can be irresponsible and overly greedy, but it’s hard to tell without taking a close look at their books. There are people whose job is to do just that and they are privy to all the information, so from our very limited knowledge vantage point it’s just guessing based on a few signs. To assume raising prices is due to greed, when right now the wider economy and industry is showing signs of struggle (eg. Disney+ is not even profitable), is probably a jump. Sure, greed is probably always a factor at least to some degree in capitalism, but there are other considerations as well. No consumer is happy about increasing fees, but one can try to be realistic and objective. Besides, one can usually take solace that in the end, the market will decide if the price increase was too much.

 

[ackmondual]

Aside from them making it tricky to fast forward I don’t find them that bad and the movies generally don’t have them at all🤷‍♂️

Fast forward? You mean through the ads, or seeking to the appropriate area of a movie or episode? On a web browser, I can easily do the latter by just clicking the appropriate spot on the seeker bar.

For the ads, there were some shows that were really low on ads (e.g. The 'L' Word only had a 90s ad at the beginning of each 50 to 55-minute episode). However, popular shows like The Simpsons (22 minute runtime), can have 5.5 minutes of ads. That's a quarter of the time, dealing with ads! I can get up and take breaks, get some water, whatever. But you can only do that a few times before it becomes unmangeable.

 

[AL2TEACH]

Netflix Net Income 2010-2023 | NFLX

Netflix annual/quarterly net income history and growth rate from 2010 to 2023. Net income can be defined as company's net profit or loss after all revenues, income items, and expenses have been accounted for. <ul style='margin-top:10px;'> <li>Netflix net income for the quarter...

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None of which makes increasing fees look good, unless one is deeply married to capitalism and lives on the receiving end of that profit, of course. Which brings me back to square one of my initial point.

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I tell people that the Ferengi was suppose to us/Americans lol great pic.