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Source: Reuters<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Netflix is raising the prices of its most popular plans, and it comes at a very curious time. The streaming service announced that it is raising prices for the first time in two years.<\/p>\n The basic plan fee remained at $7.99. The most popular mid-range plan saw an increase from $9.99 to $10.99 a month, and the $11.99 premium plan, which allows you to use four screens at once and provides 4K video, is increasing $2 to $13.99 a month.<\/p>\n The price increase has already taken effect for new U.S. subscribers and will begin for current subscribers on October 19th, after which it will take effect over the next several months. All subscribers will likely be notified at least 30 days in advance of their price hike.<\/p>\n Shares in the global streaming pioneer rose as much as 4.5% to a record high of $192.80.<\/p>\n Curiously, the move comes just as the streaming service is about to launch the second season of its most popular (we think) original series, \u201cStranger Things\u201d, and it\u2019s a pretty calculated move. If you want to see \u201cStranger Things\u201d Season 2, you\u2019re going to have to pay the new price.<\/p>\n Source: CDN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Industry buzz has been rampant about the massive spending power of Netflix, so a price hike has felt inevitable for some time now. The streaming service is ramping up its original content in a massive way while also dropping some of its big licenses (20th Century Fox recently moved shows like \u201c30 Rock\u201d<\/em><\/strong> and \u201cFriday Night Lights\u201d<\/em><\/strong> to Hulu).<\/p>\n Netflix is working on building out its library of original content to ensure that subscribers will be sticking around for shows and films they can only get on Netflix.<\/p>\n The TV business at Netflix has been booming for a while now, and major investments like \u201cLost in Space\u201d<\/em><\/strong>, the Emma Stone\/Jonah Hill comedy \u201cManiac\u201d<\/em><\/strong>, and David Fincher\u2019s new series \u201cMindhunter\u201d<\/em><\/strong> are on the horizon. And on the film side, folks like Martin Scorsese, Paul Greengrass, and Dan Gilroy are in development\/production on new Netflix original features.<\/p>\n Source: Reuters Netflix is raising the prices of its most popular plans, and it comes at a very curious time. The streaming service announced that it is raising prices for the first time in two years. The basic plan fee remained at $7.99. The most popular mid-range plan saw an increase from $9.99 to $10.99 […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2705"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2736,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions\/2736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\u201cLook, it\u2019s the new Netflix price bait, you guys!\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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\u201cDayum girl! This thing ain\u2019t cheap no more!\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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\n Source: CDN<\/em>
\nSo all this being said, it\u2019s getting very expensive to run Netflix. So the subscribers are going to have to pay a premium. The question now is whether we\u2019ll get into the habit of price hikes every year or two, or if Netflix will level off at some point.
\nSound off with what you think about this move below in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"