Netflix has elevated its subscription costs within the UK, after it raised its charges within the US, Canada, Argentina and Portugal final month.
For UK prospects, the value of a Normal subscription with out adverts has risen by £2 to £12.99 a month, with different packages additionally rising.
The most cost effective possibility – the Normal subscription with adverts – is rising by £1 to £5.99 a month, whereas the most costly Premium subscription can also be rising by £1 to £18.99 a month.
The platform can also be rising the price of its Additional Member add-ons by £1, which means it’ll now price £4.99 so as to add an extra person to a Normal subscription with adverts, and £5.99 so as to add an extra person to a Normal subscription with out adverts.
The value modifications at the moment are mirrored on Netflix’s web site, with the brand new charges making use of to each new and current prospects.
In a assertion, a Netflix spokesperson mentioned the value hike would enable the streamer to “proceed to put money into programming and supply extra worth for our members”.
The streaming service reported document world subscriber numbers on the finish of 2024, pushed partially by the second season of the South Korean drama collection Squid Recreation, as nicely its increasing sports activities protection.
The corporate mentioned it completed 2024 with greater than 300 million subscribers in whole. Between October and December final yr, it was anticipated so as to add 9.6 million new customers, however far surpassed that quantity, including 19 million subscribers within the remaining month of the yr.
The platform streamed two NFL video games on Christmas Day and hosted a boxing match between influencer-turned-fighter Jake Paul and former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, which each drew document viewership numbers.
Netflix isn’t the one platform to lift its subscription charges in current months. Main streamers reminiscent of Disney+, Spotify, and Paramount+ additionally elevated their costs worldwide in 2024.
In Might 2023, Netflix started imposing a password-sharing ban within the UK and the US, which led to hundreds of thousands of recent signups over the next yr.
