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The average American spent $89.29 per month — or more than $1,000 per year — on cable/satellite in 2024, up 11% from last year. Nearly 55% of Americans have a cable or satellite subscription, according to Reviews; it is not much of a stretch to believe many of them dropped a streaming service to offset rising TV costs.
Not shocked at all, streaming was a cheap alternative, and they got greedy and made it basically the same, injecting ads, raising prices.
YouTube TV I saw is 70 bucks a month now! When I had it it was 40. Of course they're going to lose subscribers, I'll just get a cable box and watch live tv that way if I want it!
roughly cost of 2 hdd per year
(but it's probably live sports, both as captive audience and price-wise)
Or less fatigue, but when companies raise prices people reevaluate if they will keep the service.....
I.e. geowizard went from $2 a month for premium to $10... What I was happy leaving on in the background to support a small developer became a easy and emphatic no.
The paper says cable satellite spending grew last year by 11%... That's not new customer growth, that's squeezing existing customers. Maybe this difference is a generational difference, boomers just eat the price increase and take it, younger people turn off the service and reject it.
Everyone switched to Dropout, but the people counting overlooked it
Dropout.tv ? It's not really a large streaming service, its a niche comedy groups ongoing shows - more like pateron exclusive content vs netflix
I like dropout, and the crew, but if you switched to dropout as your only media source, you would burn through everything in a month or two
