TV users will pay £96 more for subscriptions in 2025 as Disney and Paramount hike fees – how to keep yours down
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TV viewers could be forking out an extra £96 to maintain their subscriptions in 2025 after Disney+ and Paramount+ both hiked prices. Disney's crackdown on account sharing earlier this year is also set to feed into the increase. In October, Disney raised the prices on its ad-free 'Standard' and 'Premium' plans by up to £24 a year.
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That's the equivalent of an extra £2 per month. Netflix pushed a similar £24 annual hike onto consumers in 2021, and again in 2023. The increase landed just weeks after the streaming service announced a Netflix-style crackdown on password sharing, which forced viewers to pay an extra £4.99 per month to share their account with someone outside of their household.
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That is an extra £60 charge per year if you share your account. In November, Paramount+ raised its subscription costs by £12 per year. That's the equivalent of £1 extra a month, with the price is going up to £7.99 a month for its standard tier. The streamer also followed the market trend by introducing a cheap subscription tier with adverts, which is now available at £4.99 a month.
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Although 2024's price hikes don't necessarily mean you have to be £96 worse off in 2025. You might want to consider something called 'stream swapping'. While premium TV can be worth it, do you really need to be paying for multiple subscriptions at once?.
