{"id":144066,"date":"2025-09-15T03:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T03:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/144066\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T03:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T03:59:08","slug":"latest-streaming-service-to-hike-prices-for-aussies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/144066\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest streaming service to hike prices for Aussies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australians will see further increases to their streaming services, as Apple TV+ becomes the latest platform to raise the price of subscriptions.<\/p>\n<p>Apple TV+, which first launched in 2019 at $7.99 a month, will increase its monthly plan from $12.99 to $15.99 per month starting on October 11. \ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Existing subscribers will see the change\ufeff 30 days after their next renewal date.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/bc85e688-2cb3-4086-bd2f-87ca88e4019c.jpeg\"   alt=\"Australians are seeing further increases to their streaming services, with Apple TV+ becoming the latest to hike up rates.\"\/>Apple TV+ has become the latest streaming service to hike up rates. (Supplied)<\/p>\n<p>Apple TV+ also has a yearly subscription plan of $129, which works out to $10.75 per month, which will remain unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>The streaming service is \ufeffalso included in Apple One, \ufeffwhich bundles up to five other Apple services into a single monthly subscription starting at $24.95 per month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The annual subscription price remains unchanged, as does pricing for Apple One, which is the easiest way to enjoy all of Apple&#8217;s subscription services in one plan at the best value\ufeff,&#8221; an Apple spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffJust last month, Netflix raised the price of its three-tier subscription plan and the cost of adding an extra member to a plan.<\/p>\n<p>The standard plan with ads jumped from \ufeff$7.99 to $9.99 per month, the standard plan without ads rose from $18.99 to $20.99 per month, and the premium plan increased from $25.99 to $28.99 per month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We offer a range of prices and plans to meet a wide range of needs, and as we deliver more value to our members, we occasionally ask them to pay a bit more,&#8221; Netflix said at the time. \ufeff<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/2dc91c2b-9372-4cb0-8b85-2ac3e293a61c.jpeg\"   alt=\"Streaming services\"\/>Australia has been flooded with more than a dozen global and local streaming platforms. (Getty)<\/p>\n<p>Spotify also increased its monthly premium subscription in Australia last month. \ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Users saw prices rise by $6.99 to $7.99 on a student plan, $13.99 to $15.99 on an individual plan, $19.99 to $22.99 on a duo plan and $23.99 to $27.99 on a family plan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As Spotify continues to innovate and invest in providing our listeners with greater value than ever before, as well as an unparalleled service, we occasionally update our prices,&#8221; Spotify said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Australia has been flooded with more than a dozen global and local streaming platforms over the past few years.<\/p>\n<p>Prices range from as little as $7\ufeff.99 per month to $40 per month.<\/p>\n<p>Nine, the publisher of this website, is also the owner of streaming service Stan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australians will see further increases to their streaming services, as Apple TV+ becomes the latest platform to raise&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-144066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}