Netflix Hikes Prices for UK Customers of its Video Streaming Service
As expected, Netflix, the popular broadband-based Movie and TV video streaming service, this week updated their website to hike the monthly prices across all three of their plans for customers again. New customers will see the change immediately, while the timing for existing customers will depend upon your billing date (it usually follows 30 days’ after notification).
In short, ‘Standard with Ads‘ will go from £4.99 to £5.99 per month, while ‘Standard‘ jumps from £10.99 to £12.99 and ‘Premium‘ sees a smaller rise from £17.99 to £18.99. The ‘Extra Member without Ads‘ add-on has also increased from £4.99 to £5.99 per month and Netflix has added a new ‘Extra Member with Ads‘ option for £4.99.
Customers who don’t like this increase may cancel or downgrade their plan – details here.
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My crew (family) and I have decided that this is our limit for Netflix. Their content and the quality of it has been lacking over the past 2-3 years and we never download to devicesg nor use more than one screen at a time, but if we wish to utilise our Atmos setup and get the best picture quality for our 4K OLED for what we wish to enjoy, then we have to pay an ever increasing premium.
No way in hell am I paying over £225 a year – it is no longer value for money. I will subscribe on a month-by-month basis when a full season of a show we wish to watch has dropped. And no, the lowest tier is not an option – am I hell as like putting up with ads and have to pay for it – that is Pay TV talk. Now, where did I put my hat…
Well done, we need more to follow your example.
One wonders why regulation’s allowing 20% increases.
@SicOf is price for a commercial service regulated? Cinemas can charge what they like for admission, it’s a market force economy.
The content of streaming and cinema must be legal, but isn’t that law enforcement not sector regulation?
Apparently, the ban on account sharing didn’t work. Netflix’s reports of a rapidly growing user base and increasing profits are just the fantasy of creative accountants. For example, Disney lost 700,000 users after implementing a ban on account sharing.
Disney has also recently announce it will introduce ads even in subscriptions that claim they are ad free.. crazy. They are chasing those forever profits whilst driving away the customer base. Netflix needs to stop with huge pay rises as they seem to be once a year now?
Sorry I meant price increases not pay rises lol.
I have cancelled Netflix. Greedy! There is no need to increase price, why? Rip off UK.
An annual price increase is fine but why is it 18.2%. I guess they will just keep pushing it until enough people think it’s not worth it any more.
All reminds me of Sky. People used to get sports free to air and now pay through the nose for it on Sky. The streamers came in hoping to finish off terrestrial broadcasters and realised they need to charge more money after all. I’m hoping our terrestrial isn’t finished off to a future pay per view model with the streamers, although the streamers have pushed up production costs in UK massively for everyone else.
so TV license goes up, now you need a license for Netflix because they show live content, glad l cancelled a few years back.. we werent watching it any more but now its just become nothing more than a glorified sell out..
hell we dont even watch the bbc and we have to pay but to pay again for a service thats really gone downhill just stings.
You don’t need a licence for Netflix, you only need a licence if you watch the live content. People get so much wrong about the licence.
Not that I have Netflix, got rid of it couple of years ago and the licence around 9 years ago
oh l know you dont need a license to watch catch up and only need one if you watch “live” content, but since Netflix now gives you access to watch live content the licensing agency now deems it that you need a license to watch, not because you watch it (because lets face it if you have no interest in the content you wont watch it) but because the ability to watch it is there even if you have no interest in it..
the license is really only for the BBC channels but the whole license covers all channels that go out live you dont have to watch them but thats the point, its based on the ability to watch not your actual viewing habits..
You really don’t, they’ve explictly spelled this out in an FAQ – https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/faqs/FAQ104
“Do I need a TV Licence to watch Netflix?
If you are watching a TV programme live on Netflix, you need to be covered by a TV Licence. You don’t need a TV Licence to watch on demand programmes on Netflix.”
£19 for their relatively unimpressive 4K quality is absurd. I haven’t had Netflix for some time and at these prices I likely never will again. They seem keen to boast about their increasing revenue so I’m sure I won’t be missed.
TPB
What about VM customers who get ‘free’ Netflix?
Standard from ‘£10.99 to £12.999’ is a massive jump by a few hundred pounds!
Might wanna check the nines! 🙂
It’s a decimal point, not a comma, but yes I’ll correct that one 🙂 .
When Cobra Kai finishes next week there will not be a single show I feel is worth watching on there. They used to have so many good fresh shows on there. Now they’ve all turned into releasing woke propaganda rubbish that spits in the faces of its consumers. When people leave in protest they blame piracy they then increase their prices. All these price increases do is support piracy as people won’t pay these prices for the sort of mediocre content that is on there.
Aha, uses the word ‘woke’ as a pejorative term.
Come on now, you don’t have to be angry because there are additional stories available on top of the existing ones.
I have been a subscriber to Netflix for many many years, I think this is it for me. It’s a load of rubbish these days anyway.
I have been watching stuff on NowTV more, seems better quality programmes on there.
Meanwhile, I have everything I need on Plex, which only costs me about £50/m in electricity to run…. wait… :/
The harder they keep pushing with price rises the faster people will go back to pirating. Streaming teased a lot of people away from pirating due to the ease of use and cost efficiency. Those benefits are quickly eroding away and piracy seems like an easier option to many individuals.
Agreed. We cancelled Netflix over a year ago on the some price rises.
More friends have gone back to TPB and Plex if there is an odd Netflix show they want to watch. If netflix had a ton of content it would be easier to subscribe, but since it’s one season every few months they’re not bothering to do even that. Easier to grab a torrent.
Netflix have to keep the money coming in for the relentless production schedule they have. Producing and also licensing this much content isn’t helping their bottom line.
Their model on releasing an entire seasons means people don’t have to stick to the platform, traditional TV is slowly dying off, so if everyone still wants over the top serialised TV, they’ll have to keep paying for it.
Wait until they get proper sports.
I always thought that competition was supposed to drive down prices for consumers, TV seems to turn that logic upside down. Best thing is for customers just to buy it when there is something to watch then cancel immediately. These companies are relying on people forgetting to cancel.
Competition doesn’t neatly apply here because of the way that streaming rights for TV/movie content is handled. You can buy a streaming TV show subscription from another provider, but you can’t get the same shows.
I can only assume Netflix are relying on customer apathy to keep the subscriptions in place, because if you looked at the quantity of actually good material on their platform you’d struggle to make the case for the monthly fee being worth it as it increasingly looks like a platform for only their in-house productions.
And here is another one:
Private comp. pay is always more then public comp. pay,
so what happened with pay in:
– BBC
(Only way to attract talent, right 😉
But, we had 14y of one party ….. for 14y nothing happened …
everyone who thinks that sheeple will change is naive and corp. know it,
as they know “what” and “when” you are watching your IPTV ….
When did you last time see an revolution of some sort of here in the UK? 😉
I say, cancel all subscriptions (TV License as well), stop consuming and get outside,
on land that is not privately own and controlled by few of course …
[May require purchasing of waterproof/appropriate attire]
Library is still free to visit (to see the devastation of previous government),
Local park also (and the devastation of the cuts have left it in).
I know it’s not going to happened, we Europeans are getting more lazy and current
lifestyle is comfortable. Release a TV without an remote control at last 😉
Only a few years ago standard was 8.99, less content combined with inflation busting rises. I just cancelled, and will sign up again maybe couple times a year for a month for binge watching sessions then off again. Also the trend for cancelling shows so they can pad out their catalog with shows that only have 1 or 2 seasons.
I cancelled mine when the blocked account sharing. I couldn’t justify paying £17.99 just to access 4K content without being able to share it with family as well. They seem to forget that they’re now priced above the cost of VPN’s and seedboxes!
Reassuringly expensive.
Switched to the ad supported tier a while ago. full HD and downloads are still available. And the ads are pretty rare and short thankfully. No way I’d go and pay almost a tenner more to not see a minute of ads per hour. But I think netflix might soon lose a lot of people due to this.
been paying in a foreign currency since 2018, and it went from £3 to £7 since then, I’ll still pay for it, I do think £10/mo would be my limit, I already have a NAS/Plex box, Netflix App is just more convientant.
I have two comments I want to make to provide some perspective:
1. The price increase will likely lead to an increase in piracy. There comes a point when people will refuse to pay the ever-higher costs of Netflix.
2. It is a shame to see the significant cost differences between Netflix UK and other countries. For instance, the premium plan costs about $4 in Pakistan.