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If you're ready to commit to a year of Max, you can do so for a 40 percent discount. Right now, every tier of the streaming service is on sale — that includes the ad-free, 4K version for $140 annually, which works out to $12 per month instead of the regular $20 monthly. The least expensive sub is ad-supported and goes for $70 yearly, or $5.83 per month as opposed to $10. Between the two is an ad-free level without 4K support that's going for $105 for the year, when you'd usually pay $192 for 12 months.MaxAnnual…

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The dream of streaming — watch what you want, whenever you want, for a sliver of the price of cable! — is coming to an end. With all the price increases for video streaming apps like Amazon Prime Video, Netflix and Hulu, the average household that subscribes to four streaming apps may now end up paying just as much as a cable subscriber, according to research by Deloitte. To name a few of the price jumps for streaming video (without ads) in just the past year: Amazon’s ad-free Prime Video is now $12 a month, up from $9;…

LinkedIn on Thursday for the first time disclosed sales for its premium subscription business, saying the unit hit $1.7 billion in revenue in 2023 as the company sees an uptick in adoption of new artificial intelligence tools.LinkedIn, the social network aimed at business professionals, has not broken out its full financial performance since it was acquired by Microsoft in 2016. The company has previously disclosed that it made $15 billion in fiscal 2023, with $7 billion of that coming from hiring software that it sells…

The EU on Friday used new regulatory powers to query Meta about ad-free subscriptions to Facebook and Instagram as well as claims some voices are suppressed online in a phenomenon known as "shadow banning".The European Commission made a request for information under the mammoth content law known as the Digital Services Act (DSA), which came into force last August for online giants like Meta.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIM KozhikodeIIMK Advanced Data Science For…

A staggering new survey into the spending habits of American streamers has revealed that on average, customers are spending nearly $1,000 a year on subscriptions. As reported by ZDNet, a new Bango survey titled ‘Subscription Wars 2024’ has revealed that “the average American subscriber pays $924 yearly for subscriptions,” $77 a month. Moreover, a quarter of those surveyed (5,000 people) pay more than $100 a month, while 5% pay an eye-watering $200 a month. Beyond the exorbitant overall costs of streaming and…

Subscribers also strongly object to premium ad tiers, as 78% of those surveyed believe a 'paid-for' subscription service should never display ads.Unfortunately, a recent personal audit of all my streaming-service subscriptions had me realize that I was one of those people paying close to $1,000 per year in subscriptions at $71 per month. As I went down the list of which subscriptions to forgo, there were a couple I knew would be hard to cancel -- these are services the survey calls 'forever subscriptions'.Also: Hulu…

Game Pass, Microsoft’s subscription service for games, has 34 million subscribers as of February 2024. Microsoft revealed the number in a blog post where it shared its plan about the future of the Xbox business.The latest number reveals that Game Pass growth has slowed down drastically. It took Microsoft three years since Game Pass launched in 2017 to get to 10 million subscribers in April 2020. In the next five months, the company added five million subscribers, and hit 18 million subscribers by January 2021, a growth…

The problem with testing AI chatbot subscriptions like Google’s Gemini Advanced and OpenAI’s ChatGPT Plus is their generality. The same tool is used for disparate applications; the same software service that developers in San Francisco are using to build their latest app might also be used by parents in Kansas to plan a Paw Patrol birthday. Even though companies often tout esoteric benchmarks to prove their chatbot’s superiority, it can be hard to discern how a chatbot’s technical prowess translates into a better…