{"id":678,"date":"2025-11-11T07:11:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T23:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/11\/paramount-is-getting-a-price-hike-and-ending-free-trials\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T07:11:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T23:11:46","slug":"paramount-is-getting-a-price-hike-and-ending-free-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/11\/paramount-is-getting-a-price-hike-and-ending-free-trials\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramount+ is getting a price hike and ending free trials"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paramount+ is making some changes that will make its streaming service get more to watch. During Paramount’s earnings report<\/a> today, the company announced that it will increase the subscription prices for Paramount+ in the US during the first quarter of 2026. Price hikes were also announced today for viewers in Canada and Australia. The new pricing was not shared, but a dollar or two more per month has become the standard change. Considering most streaming services jack their prices every year or two, the news was probably inevitable; the last increase for Paramount+ was back in June 2024<\/a>. But today’s announcement also revealed that Paramount+ will no longer offer free trials, which is a common practice for most digital entertainment subscriptions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The changes appear to be part of a reassessment of the Paramount+ finances. The company’s approach to increase long-term profitability “includes shifting away from certain hard bundles and low-margin subscriptions, reducing investment in select international markets without a clear path to sufficient scale, retiring free trials, and reviewing discount practices.”<\/p>\n

These new moves follow Skydance’s acquisition<\/a> of Paramount over the summer, an $8 billion purchase which received regulatory approval after some pretty scuzzy interactions with FCC Chairman Brendan Carr.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/entertainment\/streaming\/paramount-is-getting-a-price-hike-and-ending-free-trials-231146302.html?src=rss<\/p>

Please credit: OBA Blog<\/a> » Paramount+ is getting a price hike and ending free trials<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paramount+ is making some changes that will make its streaming service get more to watch. During Paramount’s earnings report today, the company announced that it will increase the subscription prices for Paramount+ in the US during the first quarter of 2026. Price hikes were also announced today for viewers in Canada and Australia. The new pricing was not shared, but a dollar or two more per month has become the standard change. Considering most streaming services jack their prices every year or two, the news was probably inevitable; the last increase for Paramount+ was back in June 2024. But today’s announcement also revealed that Paramount+ will no longer offer free trials, which is a common practice for most digital entertainment subscriptions.\u00a0 The changes appear to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/obagg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}