Netflix: Why Some Viewers Are Unsubscribing and Switching Off

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Subscribing to a streaming service can be a bit like ordering takeout when you don't know what you want to eat - pay the money and hope what happens is to your liking.

In recent months fewer people have agreed to try their luck on the streaming menu , with Netflix losing nearly a million subscribers between April and July - though that was less than the two million it feared.

Like some find shows less appetizing and have their family budgets tight, and with Netflix's Covid boom over and rivals trying to cobble together a better deal, it seems our streaming tastes are changing. Hudersfield. "I bought a house last year, so I thought I had to control what I was spending, and all the monthly subscriptions added up," he says.

"At one point I had four streaming services and that was a lot of money each month for things I barely used.

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