Streamflation Alert: Why Subscription Prices Are Suddenly Spiking (Again)

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

Streamflation Alert: Why Subscription Prices Are Suddenly Spiking (Again)

Platforms are boosting prices for the second time in as many years, hoping to nudge customers into their more lucrative ad-tiers.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

Time and again we mentioned this given that there is great demand for these TV apps and we have to look at them as how Cable TV was at its peak.

If 2023 was the year of “streamflation,” to use a term coined by the consulting firm KPMG, 2024 is shaping up to be a fast sequel — Streamflation Part 2: They’ll Keep Paying.


Streaming services across video and music are raising prices again, or are poised to do so, marking the second such price hikes in as many years.


Beginning in July, NBCUniversal’s Peacock will bump up the cost of its Premium and Premium Plus plans by $2 per month after raising them by $1 a year earlier. The timing coincides with the beginning of the Paris Olympics, for which Peacock will be the streaming home.

 

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https://www.axios.com/2024/06/08/streaming-cable-tv-amazon-espn-netflix

Here is a followup article on how major streamers are becoming like cableTV was at its peak. Also here is a chart that follows how the cost of entertainment comes into play.

 

[Loverofradio]

At the end of the day, streams will always be run at a loss. Companies need to accept they’ll never be able to replace cable.

 

[Will_H_69_9]

the reason why prices are going for for Streaming anything that is behind a paywall comes down to one thing and one thing only, server cost. it's getting more and more expensive to maintain the servers or adding servers to allow content to stream, especially when things keep getting more and more expensive to buy to make sure server computers don't crash or have parts fail or get hacked by hackers or ransomware.

also Royalty fees will kill entertainment as we knew it.

 

[Don CT]

As long as people are willing to pay the price will go up.

 

[Larry]

As I see the streamers sign huge dollar contracts for sports rights I think “here we go again” as (fill in the name of the streamer) raises prices to all subscribers to pay for sports programming regardless if the subscriber wants to watch the sports programming.