About 40% of Americans have cut back on streaming services in the last three months because of financial concerns, according to a recent report
Americans are quitting subscription streaming services in droves as the cost of living continues to climb, a recent report has found.
Streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu have become increasingly popular in recent years, but Deloitte’s 2026 Digital Media Trends report, released late last month, shows how Americans are getting frustrated over the cost to have their favorite movies and TV shows at the click of a button.
“As the cost of everyday essentials like food and housing remain high, many consumers are reevaluating their budgets and cutting back on nonessential expenditures,” Deloitte said in its survey results. “At the same time, prices for media and entertainment services continue to climb.”
It wasn’t just the cost for me. It was the rise of fascism in the world in general and the fact that they are selling my watching history to everyone and anyone. Right now, they say it’s for advertising and development, but I wasn’t waiting around to have my content label me as undesirable.
Less important, but still a factor, was the fact that these services are constantly removing queer content and cancelling good shows. I stand by the idea that the only reason Kaos got cancelled was because it has a trans character. With the Paramount merger doomed to happen, I imagined there was going to be another purge, so fuck them.
Kaos was so good.
I also can’t stand watching any of those show
I love you more than words can describe.
I thought it would’ve been because they keep getting less value for money, since the services keep raising prices and fisting more ads into people.
A little from column A, a little from column B.
ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS GIVE US ENOUGH TOKYO DRIFT!
that was literally the last straw for me a few months ago… I bought a 4bay hdd enclosure, a cheap 5way switch, and got proxmox then docker then arr stack stood up on an old minipc. every month i look for a cheap hdd or two to add.
do you have any idea how much better 1080 looks when it streams from your basement and not across the country??
Same reason I continue to buy bluray and 4k discs. It just looks so much better. People don’t believe me till they see it.
High five, fellow physical media user.
I pirate most things, but yes, there’s a world of difference when getting a full size 40GB bluray rip.Depending on the movie, less is fine, but e.g. Interstellar or Pirates of the Caribbean just deserve not to have crawling compression steps instead of fading black.
Prices will increase so shareholders don’t lose any money, and morons who go, “Durr… what do I care? They provide a service I like and I have so much money I can afford to be an idiot feeding an unsustainable economic distortion in perpetuity!” will just keep right on paying the increases, and the division of the K-shaped economy will continue to grow.
There’s no way way to boycott or frugal your way out of price increases while enough bougie yuppie shitheads are willing to eat any shit a company is willing to shovel them at any cost as long as they can use it as a status symbol.
I mean sailing the seas is easier -
Easier. Cheaper. A better experience. There’s no reason to keep dealing with these particular devils at all.
for nearly a decade now I’ve had enough income that I could afford to pay for content I like. Hell I could even afford to pay for a subscription service on the chance that there was contact I liked on it
a few years back, the experience just became so shitty that I went back to sailing. sure the price gouging, lack of privacy, fucking over the users, and constant search for increased profits were a factor. but the simple fact is it’s easier to sail for me than it is to use streaming services
Yeah, I pretty much hung up my flag for a few years. It was good, you could find the thing you wanted at a reasonable price.
Now, on principle, the only streaming services I will pay for are independent ones. Dropout and nebula off the top of my head. Sorry, Netflix et al, not sorry in the slightest.
Ethically I feel like it’s a more defensible position too.
To me it’s like… Piracy is ethically neutral. Not really a good thing not really a bad thing. Streaming services are dealing with the devil, and my name’s not Faust, so I’m out. Pure evil.
so I have access to this streaming service from a person I know, the quality is so shit, so I just sail the seas and actually get higher quality lol.
Probably because Larry Ellison has bought most of them and people don’t want to be inundated with pro Israel , pro fascist propaganda
should I interpret this as “40% of americans cut back because money” or “40% of those who cut back was because of money”?
probably the latter, and we don’t actually know how many did so
well if you have money issues, streaming services should be the last thing you buy anyways. just pirate it or watch on a streaming site that does it for you, or watch clips on Yt, they pratically give out the whole story on YT anyways.
are getting frustrated over the cost to have their favorite movies and TV shows at the click of a button
find a different button
a free one
It isn’t even at the click of a button. It’s more like first looking up the show to find out which service it’s on, realizing you don’t already subscribe to that one, having to input your payment method, purchase it, then find the show. Assuming you do it the “right” way of course.
At that point it’s easier to just pirate it and put it in the same place as all of your other shows instead of having to juggle all the streaming services. Plus, an added bonus, it’s free.
and then you have to deal with streaming quality and service interruptions and shitty UIs
Aye ,captain
yo ho ho!
Whoever thought streaming is a sustainable long term platform got it wrong but made a lot of money convincing everyone otherwise.
I’m not American, but I’m doing my part!
The only streaming service worth the money is nightflightplus.com
Dropout is worth every cent and then some
I think that 40% of Americans should spend much of the time they’ve spent on streaming services reading and studying socialist theory (Karl Marx and all). Seriously!
Please, stop advertising communism and socialism here. Just stop. It will not work. Go to lemmy.ml and do it there. Thanks.
lol, what? Please stop advertising your stupidity here.
With due respect, no one asked opinion of a toxic troll, thanks. /by
But I got banned from that site for “trolling using an LLM”.
Firstly, here we call these instances, not sites. Secondly, there are other instances that will be happy to hear your thoughts. Like hexbear or lemmygrad. They welcome communism and socialism ideas.
hexbear
I got banned from that instance for (and I quote) “history of repeating US state department talking points, anti-socialism and zionism”.
I also got banned from Hexbear for “history of repeating US state department talking points, anti-socialism and zionism”. In my defense, I support left-libertarianism and such.
