Subscribing to your favorite services isn’t cheap. For music, one subscription is often enough. But for movies and TV, because the content is spread across multiple services, users often have to deal with multiple subscriptions. If you’re a serial consumer, or someone who likes the convenience of having access to everything out there, a subscription has certainly gotten more expensive over the past year and a half. In fact, it’s a trend in media formats that’s likely to continue.
Streaming Service Prices Are Rising (What Should You Do?)
Subscription fatigue is a real thing. And with add-on subscriptions in emerging areas like AI chatbots and cloud storage, you really should think twice before committing. Depending on your monthly content consumption, you can switch services as you need to, or cancel them altogether. But before you do that, take a look at which major streaming services are racking up your monthly bill so you can make an informed decision.
That's why we've highlighted all the price increases, basic subscription eliminations, stricter password policies, and ad insertions from major companies over the past year.
YouTube Premium’s recent price increase is perhaps the most significant of all the streaming subscription increases. It bundles both YouTube and YouTube Music premium features and has one of the largest user bases worldwide. And after a price hike on the individual plan in the US a few months ago, YouTube is raising prices for both its individual and family plans in several countries. Users in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia have reportedly begun receiving messages from YouTube that their subscriptions will soon be more expensive.
