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Netflix will increase costs throughout quite a few international locations after including almost 19 million subscribers within the closing months of 2024.

The streaming agency mentioned it is going to improve subscription prices within the US, Canada, Argentina and Portugal.

“We are going to often ask our members to pay a bit extra in order that we will re-invest to additional enhance Netflix,” it mentioned.

Netflix introduced better-than-expected subscriber numbers, helped by the second collection of South Korean drama Squid Sport in addition to sports activities together with a boxing match between influencer-turned-fighter Jake Paul and former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson.

Within the US, costs will improve throughout virtually all plans together with the usual subscription with no adverts which is able to now value $17.99 (£14.60) a month, up from $15.49.

Its membership with adverts will even rise, by one greenback to $7.99.

The final time Netflix raised costs within the US was October 2023, when it additionally lifted prices for some plans within the UK.

Requested if costs have been set to extend within the UK, a spokesperson for Netflix mentioned there was “nothing to share proper now”.

In the meantime, the corporate mentioned it completed final yr with greater than 300 million subscribers in complete. It had been anticipated so as to add 9.6 million new subscribers between October and December however far surpassed that quantity.

It’s the final time that Netflix will report quarterly subscriber progress – any further it mentioned it is going to “proceed to announce paid memberships as we cross key milestones”.

In addition to Squid Sport and the Paul v Tyson struggle, Netflix additionally streamed two NFL video games on Christmas Day.

It’s going to additionally broadcast extra stay occasions together with WWE wrestling and has purchased the rights for the FIFA Ladies’s World Cup in 2027 and 2031.

Paolo Pescatore, a expertise analyst at PP Foresight, mentioned Netflix “is now flexing its muscle groups by adjusting costs given its far stronger and diversified programming slate in comparison with rivals”.

Internet revenue between October and December doubled to $1.8bn in comparison with the identical interval a yr in the past.

Gross sales rose from $8.8bn to $10.2bn.

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