Crunchyroll is raising prices following the lead of Netflix and Peacock – and Spotify is next
If it’s a day that ends in “y,” it’s a day when the price of a streaming service increases — and the current service is Crunchyroll. Subscribers accustomed to several years of static subscription prices are about to get a financial shock in several countries where both Mega Fan and Ultimate Fan subscriptions are going up.
The standard Crunchyroll Premium tier remains the same for now: $7.99 per month. But the cost of Mega Fan will increase from $9.99 per month to $11.99 per month, and the price of the Ultimate Fan tier will increase from $14.99 to $15.99 per month.
If The edge According to reports, the service will also shorten the free trial period, going from two weeks to one. While the new prices won’t be implemented globally, they are being rolled out in the US, in addition to Argentina, Colombia, France, Portugal and “a number of other countries”.
Who’s Next for a Streaming Subscription Price Hike?
The most likely source of your next subscription price is Spotify, which (as of early May) has already increased its subscription fees in Britain. 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.
What service could be next? There was also talk of another potential price hike for Netflix earlier this year, followed most recently by Peacock, so it doesn’t seem like this will be slowing down anytime soon. The price increases were triggered by the eye-catching increase in Disney Plus in January, followed by services such as the British Sky.
It feels like the various music and TV streaming services are falling in line not only with prices, but also with their explanations for them. The money is intended to pay for ‘additional investments’, ‘extra services’ and ‘additional subscriber benefits’. Was that Crunchyroll, Netflix, Spotify or another streamer?
In fairness to Sony, the price increases aren’t huge – but if you’re like us and subscribe to a bunch of different streaming services, what feels like endless price increases will take a bigger and bigger bite out of wages, which it certainly won’t. increase by the same percentage points, if they increase at all. One price increase is a bit like one wasp sting: individually it is not that bad, but if a whole gang of wasps comes at you…