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Make product worse
Demand more money
Lose revenue
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The average American spent $89.29 per month — or more than $1,000 per year — on cable/satellite in 2024, up 11% from last year. Nearly 55% of Americans have a cable or satellite subscription, according to Reviews; it is not much of a stretch to believe many of them dropped a streaming service to offset rising TV costs.
Not shocked at all, streaming was a cheap alternative, and they got greedy and made it basically the same, injecting ads, raising prices.
YouTube TV I saw is 70 bucks a month now! When I had it it was 40. Of course they're going to lose subscribers, I'll just get a cable box and watch live tv that way if I want it!
not shocking. streaming stuff like netflix was supposed to be the cheap, content filled ad free alternative to cable. increasingly its not cheap as line must go up, its not content filled as every network makes their own bullshit service, and its not ad free either.
At least the ads on broadcast TV are placed appropriately in breaks throughout the TV programming. Some of the streaming services seem to inject ads wherever they feel like, sometimes in mid sentence. It completely turns me off of those streaming services.
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Or less fatigue, but when companies raise prices people reevaluate if they will keep the service.....
I.e. geowizard went from $2 a month for premium to $10... What I was happy leaving on in the background to support a small developer became a easy and emphatic no.
The paper says cable satellite spending grew last year by 11%... That's not new customer growth, that's squeezing existing customers. Maybe this difference is a generational difference, boomers just eat the price increase and take it, younger people turn off the service and reject it.
That and everything is getting expensive so people are cutting unnecessary expenses so they can afford food
Arrrrrrgh matey
One service at a time. I used to be able to stand having Netflix and branching out to Hulu if there was something to watch but at this point even one service is charging too much money. I've found my free streaming sites otherwise.
If we're going to have commercials, then it's Pluto for me!
Ive gotten the family off of cable, i went back to pirate seas and run a plex server (mainly due to getting tired of hunting down streams for old kung fu movies) but neflix and Hulu are on the chopping block for 2025
Everyone switched to Dropout, but the people counting overlooked it
Dropout.tv ? It's not really a large streaming service, its a niche comedy groups ongoing shows - more like pateron exclusive content vs netflix
I like dropout, and the crew, but if you switched to dropout as your only media source, you would burn through everything in a month or two
I've noticed my in-laws just watch YouTube videos these days