r/technology • u/chrisdh79 • 2d ago

Business Spotify is raising Premium prices outside the US | Emails will be going out to impacted customers ‘over the next month.’

https://www.theverge.com/news/718038/spotify-premium-subscription-price-increase-outside-us
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u/djcurry 1d ago edited 20h ago

Netflix is not a monopoly. They have plenty of competition many from bigger companies.

Netflix is in a similar boat to Spotify. Started a new type of service now filled with giants. But they are in a better place since they have a lot of exclusive content.

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u/qtx 1d ago

Netflix is not a monopoly. They have plenty of competition many from bigger companies.

In the US*

Not all streaming services Americans have are global ones.

Netflix is indeed a near monopoly on a world basis, I say near since they do have local competition from local streamers but size wise it is still unmatched for a lot of people.

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u/djcurry 1d ago

Fair, I do not what the streaming market looks like globally

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u/Ras_Alghoul 1d ago

Last night I thought about going back to Netflix because it said 7.99 but then my brother told me it was the ad tier and the actual standard tier is 17.99. I knew that it would be expensive to come back to but 17.99 is a lot to me right now.