announces an increase in the cost of all its plans, including ads

In October of last year, the streaming platform did not even bother to apply another increase in prices. subscription prices in Spain. And now the cost of using your platform is going to increase on numerous fronts, as also applies an increase at the price you will pay to add an extra member to the plan so that you can continue playing your content.

And while other content platforms like Spotify have only effective an increase in the last 12 years, Netflix has been applying one after another and without knowing for sure if this will be the last, since since it began to block shared accounts it has not stopped modifying the price of its subscriptions.

Anyone who thought that 2025 was going to be left without a price increase can now abandon that idea, since the platform with the highest number of subscribers just announced another change to their subscriptionsalthough for now they will stay in the United States; It will not take long for them to be applied in the rest of the countries, as will happen in Spain.

The company just announced an increase after a recent earnings presentation and the increase was verified through its website. First, the basic plan with ads goes from $6.99 to $7.99 in the monthly subscription, while the standard ad-free plan goes from $15.49 to $17.99 per month.

Which results in a increase of 2.50 dollars and approximately 16.49% applied to the ad-free subscription, which was once the platform’s basic subscription before advertising came to the multimedia content that Netflix offers to its users.

Netflix’s premium plan also receives a raise and now it remains at $24.99 per month from the $22.99 that it has been costing the subscriber’s pocket each month. Here an increase of 2 dollars in the premium is applied to apply 8.70%.

But there is more, and the platform has not forgotten the cost for the subscriber to add a new member to their plan so that they can enjoy their platform. Yeah I used to charge $7.99 a month for an extra member for ad-free playback, now goes to $8.99.

Yes, according to The New York Times, add an alternative to this experience with the option of paying $6.99 per month for an extra member, but to play the platform’s content with ads. What remains to be seen is when this increase will be applied in Spain as in the rest of the countries, which could take a while.

The reason is unknown, but The Wrapat the end of last year, reported that in its own country users are consuming 23% less streaming services to reach an average per citizen of 42.38 dollars, when the previous year, in 2023, they reached the figure of 55.04 dollars per month.