Netflix subscriptions are up almost 6 million this quarter, suggesting we’re all just too exhausted to fight this stuff
Canceled my 4 screen plan right after this was announced… So not in my experience
Same here, but it’s disappointing to see how many people just let it go and pay when enough combined push back would work.
Sure, and I canceled mine a couple years ago, but there are a ton of people who can’t be bothered with it and just pay
I don’t see why. Half the shows I like just get canceled prematurely anyway.
And their revenue is still down and they had the worst day for their stock price ever when they announced this news. People are too tired and stressed out to fight a dying behemoth that used to be good like we’re living in a Dark Souls game or something.
Cancelled and three users who used my password didn’t sign up. Doubt Netflix would announce this was a failure so here we are.
Well I mean The Witcher season 3 came out. yeah it went up.
They’re kidding themselves if I’m keeping it after. Again.
Still can’t believe how hilariously sad the advertising campaign for season 3 of Witcher was. I literally saw posters painted on the side of buildings saying “Yes. He’s still in Season 3.” Like… come on.
You should’ve just pirated it.
For me, it was I Think You Should Leave’s new season that got me to sign up for a month to binge that repeatedly. After we finish the documentary on Homo naledi we’ve been watching, we’ll cancel Netflix and start Max for a month so we can watch the new season of Righteous Gemstones.
An uptick after these changes make sense. People want to continue their comfortable routines. However now that it’s draining their wallet, they will probably be on the lookout for cheap/free alternatives.
It’s the same with increasing prices. Short term your revenue will spike, but it will bleed as you slowly lose customers because you offer less value.
But the people who were previously paying is where Netflix is playing with fire. They released the customers who were paying only because they were sharing it and didnt want to cause an inconvenience.
I think it’s a pretty big gamble by Netflix, it will take time to see how it played out.
I did that for years. Checked usage and found out the other couple people I was sharing with weren’t using it anyways.
Cancelled after 10 years.
Sure they might have gained a few subscribers short term, but are they the type to just let the sub roll for a decade straight or will they just watch what they want and cancel until they can re-sub and binge again?
I wasn’t sharing my password with anyone but the complete 180 they did on their own policy to chase dollars pissed me off so I cancelled. Been a subscriber since the first year they came out. Oh well.
Gotta edge a bit closer to that trust thermocline. I feel like it’s pretty much guaranteed for at least one of the major streaming services to all but collapse in the next 5 years. There’s just too many and something will happen to push people into leaving them.
Well yeah, what did you expect people to do?
It’s either be treated with dignity as a consumer or watch an unfinished series.
Obviously you’d pick the unfinished series.
How can we honestly know yet? How many people just got a free trial and might stop right after or a month or so later after they decide they don’t want to pay.
I also think it will take more than one month to understand the data. For example, my wife and I cancelled our Netflix subscription months or maybe even years ago at this point. We now just subscribe to one service at a time. This month, we happened to renew our Netflix subscription, so we absolutely get counted in the numbers Netflix is reporting right now, even though we canceled the new monthly subscription pretty much immediately after we signed back up.
My in laws canceled when we pointed out that this had happened, I think a lot less people know about it than you’d think
I cancelled mine and I didn’t share with anyone. I’m tired of the crap from these companies. Quite liberating to hit the high seas.
We who care are a tiny minority.
My wife was all “ok.”
For my part, Netflix is way less objectionable than Disney. Not that my family doesn’t subscribe to that too. 🙄
I haven’t been cracked down on yet. I feel left out. I’m on the east coast and my friend’s kids on the west coast use it.
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I don’t get why. I remember cancelling my Netflix ages ago when they were changing the deal with screen sharing on an account. How you had to have a special account type to watch on multiple screens vs naturally just being able to. Then there’s the cancelling of every goddamn show that happens to be good. I will never forgive them for Santa Clarita Diet.
Fuck Netflix. Can’t wait to see it rot like Blockbuster.
I was so upset about Santa Clarita Diet. That one and leaving Travellers on the biggest cliffhanger I could ever imagine with time travel and shit and then… just gone.
Honestly, I can’t see this lasting for Netflix. I think their subscriber numbers have peaked and will start to decline when people realize how crappy their catalog is.
I hate subscriptions. Too damn easy to forget about. I’ve started subscribing for the shortest period possible and immediately canceling. Sometimes I’ll renew, but generally I just try to get as much as I can out of it in a short period then let it expire
I write the end of subscription trials on my calendar so I don’t forget to cancel them.
HBO + Apple TV+ are the only ones I pay for. More than enough for me. Pluto/Tubi/Adult Swim marathon streams handle the rest lol
