Subj : Crunchyroll is the latest to raise subscription prices  heres whi
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Date : Thu May 02 2024 12:45:06

Crunchyroll is the latest to raise subscription prices  heres which streamer 
is next

Date:
Thu, 02 May 2024 11:40:09 +0000

Description:
Crunchyroll is the latest streamer to up its subscription fees, and it won't 
be the last.

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If it's a day ending in "y", it's a day when the price of a streaming service 
is going up and today's such service is Crunchyroll . Subscribers who've been 
used to several years of static subscription prices are about to get a 
financial shock in several countries where both the Mega Fan and Ultimate Fan 
plans are going up. 

The standard Crunchyroll Premium tier will stay the same for now at $7.99 per 
month. But the cost of Mega Fan will go up from $9.99 per month to $11.99 per 
month, and the price of the Ultimate Fan tier will rise from $14.99 to $15.99 
per month. 

As The Verge reports, the service is also shortening its free trial period: 
that's going down from two weeks to one. Although the new prices aren't being 
implemented worldwide, they are being rolled out in the US alongside 
Argentina, Colombia, France, Portugal and "select additional countries". 
Who's next for a streaming subscription price hike? 

The most likely source of your next subscription sting is Spotify , which has 
already (as of the start May) increased its subscription fees in the UK. The 
same will happen in the US "later this year", Bloomberg reports . Expect an 
increase of $1 per month for individual plans and $2 per month for family and 
duo plans.Which service could be next? There was talk earlier this year about 
another potential Netflix price hike followed by most recently Peacock , so 
it doesn't look to be slowing down any time soon. 

It does feel that the various music and TV streaming services are marching in 
lockstep not just with pricing but with their explanations for it. The 
money's to pay for "additional investment", "additional services" and 
"additional subscriber benefits". Was that Crunchyroll, Netflix, Spotify, or 
another streamer? 

In fairness to Sony, the price hikes aren't massive but if like us you 
subscribe to a bunch of different streaming services, what feels like 
never-ending price increases are taking an increasingly big bite out of wages 
that certainly aren't going up by the same percentage points, if they're 
going up at all. One price hike is a bit like one wasp sting: individually 
it's not too terrible, but if a whole bunch of wasps come at you... You might 
also like Samsung TVs will get their own Crunchyroll app in a free update 
coming soon Crunchyroll set to bring hundreds of hours of the best anime to 
Prime Video Pokmon anime fans face signing up to Netflix after popular TV app 
shuts down



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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/streaming/crunchyroll-is-the-latest-to-raise-subscri
ption-prices-heres-which-streamer-is-next


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