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“” To continue investing in convincing content and continuing to increase this long -term investment, from early 2024, prime video shows and films will include limited advertisements “The giant announced on his website.

Disney+: How to avoid increasing the price of your subscription ?

Disney+ confirmed that he was going to increase the price of his subscription in France as elsewhere. Fortunately there is a simple tip to temporarily bypass this price increase. This is to subscribe to the year before the fateful date.

Loss of speed, Disney+ will completely upset its pricing grid. As of November 1, it will be possible to opt for one but for three formulas. Until now, the single subscription to 8.99 euros has allowed access to the UHD/HDR catalog on four screens simultaneously. This offer will now cost 11.99 euros per month.

Alternatively, you can also opt for the other two formulas offering a reduced display quality and only two screens:

• Standard with advertising : € 5.99/month (FHD, 2 screens, Stereo 5.1)
• Standard : € 8.99/month or € 89.90/year (FHD, 2 screens, Stereo 5.1, downloads)
• Premium : € 11.99/month or € 119.90/year (UHD/HDR, 4 screens, Dolby Atmos, Downloads)

In addition to increasing prices, Disney+ also plans to tackle account sharing. The platform has not yet revealed its attack plan but we can assume that it will take Netflix as a model to locate squatters.

Disney +: how to get around the price increase ?

You want to delay the deadline by bypassing the inexorable increase in prices ? It exists A simple tip that will offer you some respite. Before the fateful date of November 1, which will mark the arrival of new offers, you will have toopt for the annual subscription € 89.90/year.

Primo, this offer will make you benefit from an interesting economy compared to monthly pricing. Second, it will allow you to benefit from the future premium subscription of Disney+ at a lower cost for a year. You will have to pay full pot only when renewing your offer.

Obviously, this technique will be useless if you already have an annual subscription that runs beyond November. It will especially be suitable for people who wish to remain constantly subscribed to the SVOD platform. If you only need Disney+ episodically to watch specific programs, the annual subscription is not recommended.

In the latter case, we advise you to turn to thelimited Currently offered by Disney+. The latter gives you the benefit of 3 months of subscription to the price of € 6.99 per month only. You have Until September 20 To decide !

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After Netflix and Disney+, Prime Video (Amazon) launches an advertising version of its offer and sets up its prices

Video premium will add advertisements to its content from 2024, its offer without advertising becoming more expensive. Amazon’s streaming platform thus follows the steps to its main competitors, Netflix and Disney+.

The Subscription to Amazon Prime will cost more in the coming months, unless you accept advertising cuts on the Prime Video streaming platform.

“” To continue investing in convincing content and continuing to increase this long -term investment, from early 2024, prime video shows and films will include limited advertisements “The giant announced on his website.

In the wake of its competitors

This offer with advertising will start in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and Canada at the beginning of next year, before France, Italy, Spain, Mexico and Australia in 2024 , specifies Amazon. The price of the standard prime subscription will not be changed. However, subscribers will be able to opt for advertising content, for $ 2.99 per additional month in the United States. The price of this subscription in other countries will be announced later, specifies the group.

Amazon only adopts a strategy already implemented by its competitors. Disney+ launched an advertising subscription last year in the United States, cheaper than the subscription without advertising. The one offer will be launched on November 1 in eight European countries. In France, this subscription will cost 5.99 euros per month, compared to 8.99 euros (or 89.90 euros per year) for the current advertising formula. Current subscribers will however have an approach to do if they do not want to pay more than now. Indeed, on November 1, all subscribers will be switched to another new offer, baptized Premium, more expensive (11.99 euros per month or 119.90 per year, for a higher number of screens and better resolution). If they do not want to pay this price, they will be able to ” Go to standard subscription or standard subscription with advertising »». If they don’t, they ” will be billed at the new price from December 6 or after this date “Said the platform in a press release.

A winning bet for Netflix

The advertising subscription launched in November by Netflix represented nearly 5 million monthly active users worldwide in mid-May, according to the platform. “” Since the start of the year, our user base with advertising has more than doubled “Said the general co-director Greg Peters. “” On average, more than a quarter of the new subscribers choose this formula in countries where it exists »».

“” Building an advertising activity from zero is not easy and we still have a lot of work, but we think that over time it will represent several billion dollars “, Ensured the company on Wednesday in the press release.