The Price of Profitability: What Disney’s Hikes Really Mean Today, Disney+ viewers woke to news of their fourth price increase in four years, a 13 percent jump for the ad-free tier, pushing it to $21.50 per Read More
Microsoft’s Cloud Gaming Vision Collides with Reality As of November, Xbox Game Pass subscribers will no longer enjoy the unfettered, unlimited access to cloud game streaming that Microsoft has championed since 2020. What was once Read More
The New Arithmetic of Apple Services Fifteen dollars. That’s the new monthly tariff for Apple TV+, a service that launched just five years ago at a seemingly unsustainable $5. The latest increase, bumping the price Read More
The Illusion of Streaming Success Peacock has just enacted its fourth price increase in as many years, affecting all tiers of its streaming service. The standard ad-supported Premium plan, for instance, jumped from $11 to $13 per Read More
The Disappearing Gateway Drug Model Roku is hiking the price of its Streaming Stick 4K by a staggering 60 percent, pushing it to $80, with similar increases across its entire hardware lineup. This isn’t merely an Read More
The Illusion of vMVPD Stability Fubo’s abrupt $15 price hike, swiftly following a brief respite for subscribers, is less a calculated business pivot and more a stark reminder of the virtual multichannel video programming distributor (Read More
The Price of Unbundling: More Choice, Less Savings A 66.7 percent price increase for The Weather Channel’s streaming app reveals a stark reality for consumers who fled traditional cable: the promise of significant savings through Read More
The Disappearing Library: When Digital Purchases Evaporate A new line has been drawn in the sand, not by a regulator or a consumer rights group, but by Sony’s quiet decision to simply erase hundreds Read More
The Quiet Erosion of the Household Account A simple prompt, “add an email address to your profile,” now appearing on Netflix screens worldwide, is far more than an inconvenience for households sharing an account. It Read More
The Quiet Enforcement of a Loud Problem Come July 1, streaming platforms operating in California will face a new mandate: advertisements must not be louder than the content they accompany. Signed into law by Governor Gavin Read More