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Netflix Nixes Cheapest $9.99 Plan in U.S., Ad-Free Streaming Now Starts at $15.49 Per Month
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Stick to your McJob, Netflix is doing just fine (adding 5,900,000 new subscribers thanks to dumping of the freeloaders)
Everyone on every tech forum: Netflix is doomed. I cancelled and never looked back, and so did everyone I know. Yo ho it's a pirate's life for me.
Netflix at earnings time: We added 5.9 million subscribers this quarter. Revenue rose by 3 percent. The crackdown on password sharing stabilized our subscriber numbers. There was little resistance. (read it for yourself)
Netflix at earnings time: We added 5.9 million subscribers this quarter. Revenue rose by 3 percent. The crackdown on password sharing stabilized our subscriber numbers. There was little resistance. (read it for yourself)
Maybe these penniless actors, writers and artists should form a union? Oh wait.
It borders on ridiculous to claim that these people make "pennies", if this were true then their union is ineffectual and in fact the ones stealing from them.
Striking now is of course their choice but to claim they make pennies would label their union as awful in negotiating their previous contract. Why did they agree to it and not strike then?
Maybe the A-list should socialize their earnings and share with the Z-list, I'll not hold my breath waiting to see if that happens. As soon as actors agree that they shouldn't make any more than 10 times the salary of the lowest paid set worker I'll listen.
Tom Cruise raked in $100 million for 'Top Gun: Maverick,' making him the highest-paid actor this year. Here are the other top earners in Hollywood.
From Brad Pitt to Millie Bobby Brown, here are all the stars who are getting the biggest checks, according to Variety's annual report.
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You seriously take these ads for anything else but ads? They were always chasing money. That’s the only accepted and possibly successful form of building something in capitalism.
Already get Amazon Prime through work and YouTube with ads gets all the other content I need.
It doesn't even. They can do that with the programs themselves, lol.
Netflix will be fine without my sub. No way they are doomed - a lot of people like their C-tier sitcoms, K-dramas, and reality shows. Me not so much. Their strategy is working elsewhere. I respect that.
Canceled HBO, too. 4/5 commercials on that platform are for Sex and the City's latest series which drove me to the point of insanity. Past a few big series, and rewatching The Wire, can't find a reason to stay on that platform, either. I'll come back for more TLOU and GoT.
I'll just hop from service to service as the good shows add back up. Waiting on Hulu to add another season to one or two more of their originals before getting that for a month or two and then canceling again.
That's all that's left for someone like me who doesn't care to pirate.
Canceled HBO, too. 4/5 commercials on that platform are for Sex and the City's latest series which drove me to the point of insanity. Past a few big series, and rewatching The Wire, can't find a reason to stay on that platform, either. I'll come back for more TLOU and GoT.
I'll just hop from service to service as the good shows add back up. Waiting on Hulu to add another season to one or two more of their originals before getting that for a month or two and then canceling again.
That's all that's left for someone like me who doesn't care to pirate.
well here you go
Netflix subscriptions jump 8%, revenue climbs as password sharing crackdown takes hold
Netflix reported second quarter earnings after the bell on Wednesday.
Maybe these penniless actors, writers and artists should form a union? Oh wait.
It borders on ridiculous to claim that these people make "pennies", if this were true then their union is ineffectual and in fact the ones stealing from them.
Striking now is of course their choice but to claim they make pennies would label their union as awful in negotiating their previous contract. Why did they agree to it and not strike then?
Maybe the A-list should socialize their earnings and share with the Z-list, I'll not hold my breath waiting to see if that happens. As soon as actors agree that they shouldn't make any more than 10 times the salary of the lowest paid set worker I'll listen.
Tom Cruise raked in $100 million for 'Top Gun: Maverick,' making him the highest-paid actor this year. Here are the other top earners in Hollywood.
From Brad Pitt to Millie Bobby Brown, here are all the stars who are getting the biggest checks, according to Variety's annual report.
i didn't realize tom played every role in this movie.
The best way for them to maximise shareholder returns is by gradually shifting users to paid subscription plus ads. That's why it'll happen. User experience is secondary to what they can get the user to put up with in the name of profit. Case in point - every big site on the internet.Not if enough consumers are always willing to pay for no ads.
They'll merge the HD and 4k tiers into one, then they'll gradually start bringing the adverts in. Drip drip drip.
This has nothing to do with Netflix and the "job" they have done with plans. This is 100% about what you personally feel you should pay for their content.
If I interpret your posts correctly, Netflix is charging more for their content, via their subscription plans, than you find value in. This means you do not find the ratio of cost to enjoyment of value to you.
Instead of saying to yourself and the community here at MR "I don't value Netflix's content enough to pay what they are asking so I won't subscribe", you say to yourself and everyone here at MR "I don't value Netflix's content enough to pay what they are asking, but I feel entitled to view it so I will steal it by "sailing the high seas". That choice is on you and has nothing to do with Netflix.
Like any publically-traded company, they’ve always been greedy.
I’ve never understood the idea that a company is “good” or exists to make the world some sort of utopia. Unless it’s listed as “non-profit”, its primary goal is to make money, and longer term to make even more money, which is done through either cutting costs, increasing customer-base, or increasing prices, or a combination of one or more of those. Some might argue that even non-profits do this to some extent too.
the big strike is happening in relation to AI clauses and the lack or minuscule residuals in streaming contracts. the streaming residuals is more on topic with this thread. streaming services are stealing from actors and writers.
Is it me or did the disrupter of cable television just turn into cable television?
What a joke!
Again, who negotiated the contracts between the studios and streaming services? Maybe they should have done better? It takes two to sign an agreement, you can't just blame one side.
May I remind you that you are the one that misdirected one of my posts into "the strike" and took things off topic. If you wanted to discuss the strike maybe start a thread in the appropriate area.
Joke is on all you! I saw the greed once they got rid of DVD's by mail (or at least made it more expensive)!
Well, except it sounds as if the change only affects new and returning customers "for now"...so I suspect folks who have the $6.99 and $9.99 plans will stick with them.
i didn't the topic moved onto supporting stealing. supporting streaming services is supporting stealing.
At that price I'd rather just get a Youtube Premium subscription.