If there’s one thing streaming services love more than a rebrand or a bundle , it’s a price hike. In the past couple months, Peacock , Apple TV+ , and even humble BritBox have raised their subscription rates. Asking customers to shell out more each month has been a part of the streaming business going back to the early days of Netflix, when it incrementally increased prices on certain tiers on an almost annual basis, and since more services began popping up to compete with the service in the past five or six years, they’ve been predictable additions to your streaming bills, some notable exceptions aside. To illustrate their ubiquity, we’ve rounded up as many as we could below — focusing on the major streamers’ so-called “standard” paid monthly subscriptions with and without ads.
Every Price Hike of the Streaming Era in Chronological Order

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