Summary
In 2024, Americans spent 23% less on streaming services, averaging $42.38 per month, down from $55.04 in 2023.
Factors include “streaming fatigue,” with 27.8% overwhelmed by the number of apps, and increased spending on cable/satellite TV, which rose 11% to $89.29 monthly.
Many switched to cheaper ad-supported streaming options, which hit a record 43% of subscriptions.
The average American now has two streaming services, watches four hours daily, and 26.5% share accounts with others, reflecting shifting viewing and spending habits.
Gouging pricing, fewer interesting shows. Water flows downhill.
Yes, “streaming fatigue” is the problem. It’s not that services are charging more for worse content. The enshittification isn’t the issue people are just randomly tired of streaming for unexplainable reasons. Very insightful.
Welcome to modern journalism, where we dance around the issue trying not to upset advertisers, and any info is incidental at best.
Yeah, Dwayne Johnson is cool and all… but maybe give someone else a shot. If Verizon didn’t give me free Hulu and Disney, we wouldn’t have them, getting rid of Prime this year, and Netflix is pretty close to the chopping block. I watch a lot of YouTube and pay to not see ads. Probably continue that for a while. Just don’t get the value and as I get older, just less interested in any of the content. I find myself going back and watching things for the past decades.
We can do Chris Pratt, or Jack Black. But it needs to be one of those 3.
Breaking news: americans dont want to work 14h shifts, why are people getting lazy?
People are broke. Cut out the easy things first.
I have a much harder time not only finding anything that interests me, but getting into something once I’ve started it. Not to mention maintaining interest to power through the whole thing. I frequently leave things half finished now. Whether this says more about the quality of streaming of late, or changes in my brain chemistry, I cannot say.
The last two shows I recall making it through were The Madness, and Black Doves; both on Netflix. Oh, and I can’t get enough of Lioness. That show is just SO GOOD.
Also the fact that it can be three damn years between seasons.
Yeah, season one of Severance was cool, but I barely remember any details beyond the main premise now that season two is starting in two weeks.
I’ve resorted to a rewatch of shows prior to their new season launch. Wheel of Time is one such show I’ve done this with; also Arcane - there’s so much to follow and my brain tends to just lose details over time for shows. I’ll be watching Severance season one again soon.
Better yet it gets cancelled without closure a season or two in.
Well no shit. They do everything in their power to make the experience as shitty as possible, worse day by day. Insert surprised pikachu face
I cancelled my Netflix subscription just recently after being a member since 2001. I also cancelled YouTube TV and YouTube Premium last month. I will be cancelling Prime this month after I figure out what the implications are with my Prime credit card. That leaves Spotify which is heavily used by me and my family.
You just lose 2% on purchases from Amazon. You’d have to buy a lot from Amazon to not save money by cancelling prime. Like $7000
I use my Chase Prime card for 5% back at Whole Foods markets plus whatever Prime discounts the card gets me.
I literally went back to manually downloading music this year. Have a unit ready for jellyfin, too. If my catalysts weren’t annoying I’d have set them up to network it all already.
I use a nice app called BitTorrent.
We have Disney+ due to kids and nothing else. Did Netflix for a bit but eventually didn’t like the price and policy change.
I had actually enjoyed it a lot since it wasn’t too $$ at first. The price increase and stupid lawsuits made me rethink. Still decided the shows we watched as a family were worth the price and convenience.
However in the past week they started adding things that were only available with the espn and Hulu subscriptions. So now we are seeing tons of things we can’t watch.
It’s now really pissing me off. So all the other shit bothered me but not to the point of canceling. This however is going to be the catalyst.
Streaming services suffer from content delivery. Users stay in analysis paralysis looking for what to watch, ultimately watch nothing, and scroll on their phones instead.
Worse, they made the selection process insufferable by auto playing shows and movies while you’re trying to select/learn more.
Lastly, from like 2018 on, they started losing titles to other streaming services and it just got worse and worse of a service to invest in. And since then, prices have gone up, and stupid password sharing bullshit has made that worse.
