THENATIONALPULSE (The National Pulse) - Streaming Supremacy: Netflix’s Price Hikes, and How They’ll Hit $40 Next Decade.
Our previous arguments against Netflix as the right fit for a Warner Bros. acquisition now look even stronger. Netflix never needed Warner’s library to compete. It needed the market to be kept exactly as it is: fragmented, weaker, and miles behind.That helps explain the latest round of Netflix price hikes, which, by our calculation, would […] The post Streaming Supremacy: Netflix’s Price Hikes, and How They’ll Hit $40 Next Decade. appeared first on The National Pulse .
Our previous arguments against Netflix as the right fit for a Warner Bros. acquisition now look even stronger. Netflix never needed Warner’s library to compete. It needed the market to be kept exactly as it is: fragmented, weaker, and miles behind. That helps explain the latest round of Netflix price hikes, which, by our calculation, would leave the company with an eye-watering $40-a-month premium price tag by the middle of the next decade. Why anyone would pay that for Emily in Paris, and its ilk, evades us. Indeed, in under two months since insisting a Warner deal would give consumers “more content for less,” Netflix is doing the precise opposite—because it can. With roughly 325 million subscribers and no true rival within…Open