Thanks to industry consolidation and saturated market growth, the streaming industry has started behaving much like the traditional cable giants they once disrupted. As with most industries sufferi…
2005 - lanuches at $79
2011 - $79 (includes Prime Video)
2014 - raises price to $99
2018 - raises price to $119
2022 - raises price to $139
2024 - keeps the price at $139, but introduces ads that you can remove for $3/month
Didn’t they just raise the price of prime too?
$120 / yr. to $140 / yr. now +$3/mo, so call it $176 / yr.?
For what was $120 in 2022?
Glad I noped out at $140.
Price timeline
2005 - lanuches at $79
2011 - $79 (includes Prime Video)
2014 - raises price to $99
2018 - raises price to $119
2022 - raises price to $139
2024 - keeps the price at $139, but introduces ads that you can remove for $3/month
Same. Haven’t really missed the content and I don’t mind waiting an extra day for stuff with free shipping.
Yeah the only thing exclusive to prime that is worth more than $5 (one time) is the 80s period show Red Oaks, and it went off air years ago.