Stream Fatigue? Americans Spent 23% Less on Streaming Services in 2024, Study Finds
Stream Fatigue? Americans Spent 23% Less on Streaming Services in 2024, Study Finds
The average U.S. citizen spent $42.38 on streaming services each month in 2024, down 23% from last year, a new report found
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I think its more reflective that the price of streaming services continues to rise, while the value proposition does not. So why subscribe to all services at one time? You can only watch one at a time.
(Also, piracy is just so piss-easy for $5/mo)
Stremio & torrentio are free. Not sure if it works on googleTV. It doesn't on roku
Referring to a VPN with my price, not private trackers. Sorry for the confusion.
Which VPN are you using atm? I am also looking for one as I am behind cgnat and can't open ports.
ProtonVPN.
I recently discovered I can just have Kodi on my Fire TV use SFTP to login to my seedbox and download my shows from there.
Exactly. I finally cancelled Netflix a few weeks ago. It's too expensive and there's very little I want to watch on there any more. The shitty way they were trying to push you into more expensive plans was just the shit icing on the turd pie.
I'm now looking at Disney+ and Prime Video because there's hardly anything on those too that I like.
I ditched Disney+ when they added 50% onto the price. The exit questionnaire was annoying as it had one answer that lumped in “can’t afford it” with “too expensive” which implies it’s a “me” problem when it was definitely a “them” problem.
I would have ditched Amazon Prime when they added adverts with an optional 50% price hike to remove them but my wife didn’t want to lose the prime delivery.
The intention is that we subscribe to Disney+ for a few months a year and catch up on what we missed.
Kids make it complicated for sure, but we managed to drop Disney. Honestly I’d prefer they were on screens less anyway.
and on top of that inflation everywhere else is causing people to have less discretionary funds.
This will only increase until there is sufficient backlash or, god forbid, Government oversight. These CEOs are getting hooked on the concept of being paid continuously for the same widget. Not only will these services get more predatory, but subscription models will continue to proliferate even into unlikely and surprising places.
That's my official end of year, forward looking, very lukewarm take for 2024.
Was it BMW that was trying to charge a subscription for seat warmers and automatic car starters that were built into the car already? They got serious push back and rolled back fast. Haven't followed in a while wouldn't be surprised if they were back to that model already.
Yep. BMW.
Wait till you see the subscription pricing on the turn signals; it’s no wonder their drivers never use them!