About 40% of Americans have cut back on streaming services in the last three months because of financial concerns, according to a recent report
Americans are quitting subscription streaming services in droves as the cost of living continues to climb, a recent report has found.
Streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu have become increasingly popular in recent years, but Deloitte’s 2026 Digital Media Trends report, released late last month, shows how Americans are getting frustrated over the cost to have their favorite movies and TV shows at the click of a button.
“As the cost of everyday essentials like food and housing remain high, many consumers are reevaluating their budgets and cutting back on nonessential expenditures,” Deloitte said in its survey results. “At the same time, prices for media and entertainment services continue to climb.”
I think that 40% of Americans should spend much of the time they’ve spent on streaming services reading and studying socialist theory (Karl Marx and all). Seriously!
It wasn’t just the cost for me. It was the rise of fascism in the world in general and the fact that they are selling my watching history to everyone and anyone. Right now, they say it’s for advertising and development, but I wasn’t waiting around to have my content label me as undesirable.
Less important, but still a factor, was the fact that these services are constantly removing queer content and cancelling good shows. I stand by the idea that the only reason Kaos got cancelled was because it has a trans character. With the Paramount merger doomed to happen, I imagined there was going to be another purge, so fuck them.
ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS GIVE US ENOUGH TOKYO DRIFT!
that was literally the last straw for me a few months ago… I bought a 4bay hdd enclosure, a cheap 5way switch, and got proxmox then docker then arr stack stood up on an old minipc. every month i look for a cheap hdd or two to add.
do you have any idea how much better 1080 looks when it streams from your basement and not across the country??
Same reason I continue to buy bluray and 4k discs. It just looks so much better. People don’t believe me till they see it.
High five, fellow physical media user.
Probably because Larry Ellison has bought most of them and people don’t want to be inundated with pro Israel , pro fascist propaganda
I mean sailing the seas is easier -
Easier. Cheaper. A better experience. There’s no reason to keep dealing with these particular devils at all.
so I have access to this streaming service from a person I know, the quality is so shit, so I just sail the seas and actually get higher quality lol.
Ethically I feel like it’s a more defensible position too.
should I interpret this as “40% of americans cut back because money” or “40% of those who cut back was because of money”?
probably the latter, and we don’t actually know how many did so
are getting frustrated over the cost to have their favorite movies and TV shows at the click of a button
find a different button
a free one
It isn’t even at the click of a button. It’s more like first looking up the show to find out which service it’s on, realizing you don’t already subscribe to that one, having to input your payment method, purchase it, then find the show. Assuming you do it the “right” way of course.
At that point it’s easier to just pirate it and put it in the same place as all of your other shows instead of having to juggle all the streaming services. Plus, an added bonus, it’s free.
Aye ,captain
yo ho ho!
I love you more than words can describe.
Prices will increase so shareholders don’t lose any money, and morons who go, “Durr… what do I care? They provide a service I like and I have so much money I can afford to be an idiot feeding an unsustainable economic distortion in perpetuity!” will just keep right on paying the increases, and the division of the K-shaped economy will continue to grow.
There’s no way way to boycott or frugal your way out of price increases while enough bougie yuppie shitheads are willing to eat any shit a company is willing to shovel them at any cost as long as they can use it as a status symbol.
I thought it would’ve been because they keep getting less value for money, since the services keep raising prices and fisting more ads into people.
A little from column A, a little from column B.
The only streaming service worth the money is nightflightplus.com
Dropout is worth every cent and then some
well if you have money issues, streaming services should be the last thing you buy anyways. just pirate it or watch on a streaming site that does it for you, or watch clips on Yt, they pratically give out the whole story on YT anyways.
Has Netflix tried not going to Starbucks as often, or not eating Avocado Toast?
maybe just give the kid one doll for Christmas?
They just upped the price again and added more commercials, instead.
In the Netherlands we don’t have commercials on Netflix. Is that really a thing?
In the US there’s like 4 different pricing options for Netflix. The cheapest option is $10 a month and has a bunch of commercials. The most expensive is like $20 or so a month and gives you unlimited download options, no commercials, and shows and movies not included in the cheapest option. I have the cheap one, and I only have it because for some weird ass corpo BS it’s included for “free” with my cell phone carrier.
In the US it is. You can pay more for it to be ad free. Only reason i have it is because its included for free through my cell phone carrier.
We do in Italy, on the cheapest tier
Yep, and we’re about to dump them.
Yarrrrrrrr me maties
Have you seen their job ads? My job which is in business operations is paying $480k. In the real world it pays about $80-100k.
Wasn’t their big deal for years “we pay you well but fire your if we think you’re not worth it any more” which might just be saying the quiet part out loud.
That or maybe enough got cut and were all shocked Pikachu that they backed away from it.
Either way I don’t really understand why they continue to have tech company status. They were definitely pioneering streaming but you can build a streaming service in a couple months using AWS to solve the harder problems.
I don’t know man, after using Netflix, Disney, and Paramount (and jellyfin) apps on my TV, it’s wild how much more responsive the UI is on Netflix compared to everything else.
On your first paragraph, every place will drop you in a heartbeat these days.
Sure but a nice web app was not really what they were pioneering. The entities you listed don’t need none nice apps they are the only source for their content. That’s the business Netflix is now in.
Where is it? If it’s in the Bay Area you won’t be able to afford a house on that meager pittance
It’s actually LA and I, ironically, now live in the Bay Area.
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