Subscription Overload: Are You Paying for Too Many Streaming Services?
Nearly three-quarters of all Americans (74%) paid for a subscription video on-Demand (SVOD) service in 2019, according to a survey by Leichtman Research Group. That's up from 64% in 2017 and 52% in 2015.
That makes sense because SVOD services like Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX), Walt Disney's (NYSE: DIS) Hulu and Disney+, and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) Prime cost much less than typical cable packages. The problem is that while one streaming service may offer lots of choices, it won't have everything.
A Netflix subscriber, for example, won't have any access to recent television shows, live sports, or trendy original content owned by other services. You may have more than enough entertainment available on one service to occupy your free time, but you may still feel deprived when you can't watch something others have access to.
Source Fool.com
