Netflix Reveals Ad Supported Plan - $6.99 a Month Starting Nov 4th - Would You Buy It?

SnowDragon on 14/10/2022 - 09:05
Last edited 14/10/2022 - 09:46

Sorry about the newscorp https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/streaming/netflix-r…

Netflix has announced its launch date for a new ad-supported basic plan.
Basic with Ads will cost $6.99 per month in Australia starting November 4th.
As outlined in a press release distributed today, it will stream with an average of four to five minutes of ads per hour which users will be unable to skip.
Ads will be 15 or 30 seconds in length, targeted towards specific audiences, and will play before and during shows and movies.
In addition, some movies and TV shows won’t be available on the cheaper subscription due to licensing restrictions.

That works out to be about 6-12 ads an hour depending on length. Will they have AI to put the ads in scene cuts?

Is Netflix and Shill the new thing?

Interestingly they are doing the same in the US with the same price of $6.99. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/13/netflix-to-charge-6point99-a…

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    Existing subscriber and will not be changing plans
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    Existing subscriber and will change to this plan
  • 11
    Not currently subscribed, but will use this plan
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    Not currently subscribed and I won't be joining
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    Not using Australian Netflix
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    • Leanne59 on 15/10/2022 - 13:42
      +6

      Back in the olden olden days Foxtel didn't have ads, they were only added later.

      • gentlekoala5906 on 17/10/2022 - 15:01

        I remember back in 98/99 they had no ads and I could watch The Simpsons back-to-back uninterrupted for 3 hours straight every Saturday and Sunday

    • tonka on 15/10/2022 - 14:44

      Was likely Netflix that forced Foxtel to be more competitive though.

    • TrustNoBody on 15/10/2022 - 17:12

      i still pay $95 pm for foxtel

      • ItchyBallsack on 15/10/2022 - 18:20
        +3

        Hand in your oz bargain badge

        • TrustNoBody on 15/10/2022 - 19:41
          -2

          actually i should cos i was only paying $65 but have let it go back up to $95 , time to ring again to “disconnect “

  • GourmetFoodie on 14/10/2022 - 22:28
    +2

    No way in hell. I cancelled Netflix this year as the content turned to shit. Quality content is the only way to get new subscribers and repeat subscribers.

    • parsimonious one on 15/10/2022 - 17:28
      +2

      Yep me too

      When it got to the point where watching re-runs of sitcoms was the most common choice, it was time to move on

  • jhaley3180 on 15/10/2022 - 08:16

    I use the ad supported version of Hulu, but I only ever pay $0.99USD per month. I find it good value at that price point and often experience shows and movies ad free…. But there is no way on earth I'd pay full price and nope to paying $6.99 for the pleasure of ads on Netflix.

  • hairybum on 15/10/2022 - 10:05

    Sigh…. oh well, back to Pirate Bay it seems.

  • Sinnerator on 15/10/2022 - 10:13
    +1

    So, people pay to watch ads….hmmmmmm

    • [Deactivated] on 18/10/2022 - 19:54

      I pay sponsorBlock and uBlock origin just because I love their work.

  • bamzero on 15/10/2022 - 10:37
    +1

    When someone comes up with a video streaming service that works like Spotify and I can see what I want from all the different providers and they work out the licensing at their end, then I'll consider subscribing. Though probably only on a family plan spot that I got from an ozbargain user….

    • SnowDragon on 15/10/2022 - 11:28

      Plex has a feature similar where if you lookup a movie or show it'll tell you what streaming services they are on. If you are subscribed to any of them you can click through straight to the content.

      I doubt we'll see a unification of content for a long time. Netflix was dominant for too long and now everyone else wants a share of the market.

    • tonka on 15/10/2022 - 14:45

      Probably happen.

  • jaimex2 on 15/10/2022 - 13:51
    -7

    Not really interested in Wokeflix in general.

    • smartazz104 on 16/10/2022 - 15:00
      +4

      Probably too busy listening to 3AW on the wireless.

      • jaimex2 on 17/10/2022 - 12:46
        -4

        Such a boring far-left retort.

    • SteveBuscemi on 17/10/2022 - 01:10
      +1

      Ahh yes, famously woke Netflix personalities like Dave Chapelle, Ricky Gervais and Jimmy Carr…

    • johnno07 on 17/10/2022 - 06:10
      +4

      Wokeflix

      Just curious - have you ever said this word in public? If so, what was the reaction around you? Did your friends/family/co-workers chortle, saying "My that was a clever pun, I am glad to be in the presence of such comedy!" Or something to that effect?

      • SimAus007 on 17/10/2022 - 12:11
        +2

        Anyone using "woke" for me is a red flag…
        ;)

      • jaimex2 on 17/10/2022 - 12:45
        -1

        Sure have.

        Like Hellstra, Sloptus etc. We then discuss why the pun.

        In this case, two things.

        • Their decisions to remove content based on what their opinion is acceptable content is. ie. Gone with the Wind, Little Britain etc.

        • Churning out boring shows that clearly spent all their effort on the diversity quotas over the substance.

        It's their right to do so but along with the already weak library it's not just not an attractive service I care to fund.

        • entropysbane on 17/10/2022 - 13:38

          Love Little Britain.

          Hated Gone with the wind.

          • jaimex2 on 17/10/2022 - 17:17

            @entropysbane: Cant say I've watched Gone with the wind, either way not up to Netflix.

  • tonka on 15/10/2022 - 14:34
    +3

    Netflix has no value to me since it tried to become everything to every market. I'm over not being able to quickly find something to watch because I still can't set any filters or preferences to my content. Sick of having to sort through content I've previously watched and back catalogues of dubbed d-grade movies. I can set a filter for a foreign language but not English. And every series they start they promptly cancel. I'm only finding stuff I want to watch on Prime, Binge and Disney. Gotta wonder how their massive debt is going with the rise of interest rates and declining subscribers.

  • lonewolf on 15/10/2022 - 15:31

    I have noticed in all my trips this year, with my (i think argentine netflix), I am unable to use it overseas. I used to use netflix when i travelled so i had some content to watch (actually used it more than than i do when i am at home as i have foxtel and other streaming sites i use at home as well), but this year all my trips in the countries i visited, I was unable to use netflix. My friends who have australian netflix were able to use it but i wasnt able to use mine. Anyone else experienced this?

    • Miss B on 16/10/2022 - 01:05

      Hi MissB,
      Starting August 22nd, each Netflix account will allow you to watch from 1 home.
      Within a home, you can enjoy Netflix from any of your devices.
      If your account is being used from more than 1 home, here’s how it’ll work:
      • Buy an extra home. For 219 ARS/month (pre-tax) more each, enjoy Netflix from another home. (Add up to 3 extra homes with the Premium plan, 2 with Standard and 1 with Basic.) Learn more.
      • Watch while you travel. Stream your favorites from your mobile device, tablet or laptop any time. Learn more.
      • Manage your homes. Control where your account is used from the Manage Homes page in your account on the web (coming soon).

      Any chance it's to do with this? They've done it to Argentina, but not Australia.

      • lonewolf on 16/10/2022 - 04:47

        I had this problem back in May this year. When I contacted them, they said it's because my account is locked to my region and they can move it to another region…. So it was before all this 1 home stuff they have now started. Unless I was in some trial phase of it. But I never received an email about paying more for more than 1 home or anything like that. Plus back in Sydney I am still able to use it at my house and when I go to my parents house or my brother's house. It only doesn't work when I leave Australia for another country.

        • Miss B on 16/10/2022 - 10:20

          Must be another "feature" in the cheap countries.

  • lonewolf on 15/10/2022 - 15:36
    +2

    For everyone badmouthing netflix content, I understand where you are coming from and even worse so many shows / movies that i add to my list and then go to watch and they have disappeared etc is frustrating ….

    But Its actually Disney that ruined all this for people, before Disney decided to show all studios, "Hey guys, now that Netflix has brought people around from piracy to getting used to streaming content to their homes and paying for it and getting people hooked on that system, lets all remove our content from Netflix (who helped us to get customers to pay for our content instead of resorting to piracy) and start up our own streaming services and surely all the customers will come to us as now they are hooked to the streaming style".

    IF Disney hadnt started this and then get other studious to follow suit, Netflix would still have a lot of content from various studios , all in one place and also have a lot of customers.

    • tonka on 15/10/2022 - 16:06

      So you are blaming a producer direct marketing their content, for making the middleman lose margin? Maybe Netflix is simply not adding enough value to the product and become redundant. And there's as big an argument to say Pirates and Youtube created the digital streaming movement as Netflix. I don't think there's any chance Disney would not have become a digital platform with or without Netflix. Who knows perhaps Netflix would be have failed without Disney, it's certainly dependent on studios.

      • lonewolf on 15/10/2022 - 16:12
        +3

        If you go look at the timelines you will see why i am blaming the producers. Who all screamed UNFAIR when piracy was on a high. Netflix came into the picture with and reduced privacy by a large margin by providing a new way of providing content for a low cost and providing a lot of studios with money and access to customers through this new medium and hence the studios content was not being pirated anywhere near as much as it once was..

        Once this new medium had a large enough uptake by customers and piracy had dropped a lot and customers who hooked onto the system, the producers stabbed their saviour in the back and decided to copy and cut out the middleman who had saved their studios from losing so much money for so long …..

        Frankly what Disney has started and with all the studios now getting in on the act, they have shot themselves in the foot. As Piracy is back up on the rise and a lot of people i know have gone back to pirating as they arent interested in subscribing to 10 different streaming sites, that was the whole issue with the old cable tv / foxtel pricing market. Netflix resolved that by having a lot of different studios content all on one streaming service at a reasonable cost that most people were willing to spend.

        They basically used the middleman to reduce piracy, get customers used to a new way of getting their shows / movies, wait till it was all setup and shown to work well and customers were all signing up by the truck load. Then after a few years turn around and screw over the middle man, the middle man who saved them by reducing so much piracy. This is also not good for the customers who now have to pay alot more for the same content that they could previously receive all on one site.

        Youtube is not the same. Netflix brought tv shows and movies to the masses, when people talk about streaming licensed TV shows and movies, they generally think of Netflix. Youtube was about small excerpts and ordinary people created content etc. People dont automatically think of Youtube as the place to go to watch licensed movies and Tv shows.

        • tonka on 15/10/2022 - 17:47

          OK I'm gonna make my argument as simple as Disney is a long time powerhouse and innovator in entertainment. It will likely be around while dozens of Netflix types come and go. Disney has never needed Netflix, Netfix has needed Disney. Disney probably didn't care a lot about piracy, pirate types were never their core market, and even Pirates often wanted their Disney in original format with steel boxes etc. To be honest I thought more of Netflix before you described what they do. Middlemen are the Gerry Harvey's of the world milking all the profit at the expense of the consumer and producer. Necessary in the case of a supermarket, in digital streaming easily made redundant. Who knows Netflix may have even suffocated the burgeoning at the time webisode market where producers were developing original content direct to the internet. Consider Netflix also got where it is by borrowing a ridiculous amount of money and just outbidding everyone else. If that doesn't end up being sustainable, then Netflix was never successful anyway .

          • lonewolf on 16/10/2022 - 11:28

            @tonka: Disney didnt own half the content it does now, when Netflix first started. Disney also cared more about piracy than a lot of other studios and was one of the first to bring in anti protection systems to even VHS tapes etc. It started back in the early 90s with their animations like Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast etc, as their animations were one of the most pirated movies around at that time. As most kids wanted them and kids dont care about if its a original or not as long as they can watch it.

            Disney, innovator in entertainment? Huh? Disney bought out a lot of other companies to get their content under the Disney brand.

            Netflix brought to the mass market a system, that no-one else had thought of or thought would work at that time. It was at a time where Piracy was on a real high. It changed piracy and brought a lot of people into paying for content who never thought they would before when they felt they could pirate it, because they thought its so cheap that they may as well get it and with no adverts.

            • tonka on 16/10/2022 - 11:58

              @lonewolf: There were other companies doing what Netflix was doing. Streaming movies. What they didn't do was borrow billions and billions of dollars to buy market dominance. Time will tell if Netflix had the right strategy, but they are certainly not 'entitled' to anything they can't keep by their own ongoing merit. If you don't think Disney is an long time entertainment innovator, well all that says is you don't like Disney. I was watching them 50 years ago, they were dominant then and now. But of course all their success is due to Netflix, be real dude, it was only a few average shows they made for Netflix?

              • lonewolf on 16/10/2022 - 12:05

                @tonka: That can be said for all studios, all studios created entertainment not just Disney. I was watching disney a long time ago and love Disney animations uptil the 2010s, I am not a fan of their newer animations.Disney has only become the juggernaut recently through all the purchasing of other companies.

                No company did what Netflix did as i said it. Brought it to the mass market with a large library of content from many different studios all in one service at a cheap price. Disney had a lot of their content on streaming services around, not just "created a few shows" before they realised there is enough people on streaming services now and so lets start our own and pull all our content from the other services. Which then meant WB, Paramount etc also decided to do it. You seem to be thinking Netflix is only Australia and hence only had the content that we get to see on Netflix in Australia. You should see the content that was on Netflix in other coutries from these studios including Disney.

                You seem to like to put words into my comments, i didnt say half the stuff you are now claiming i said and not really looking at or answering what i said. Which basically means this is a waste of time for me.

                • tonka on 16/10/2022 - 12:55

                  @lonewolf: OK well I don't want to your time. I wasn't trying to answer all your points, just trying to have a casual conversation not a debate, more fluid than responding to every point you make.
                  I think I can see the disconnect we have is I am viewing Disney as it's whole entity, theme parks and interactive content, music and soundtracks, toy and clothing lines and sing alongs, theme hotels, freaking cruise liners. Not just pitching it's movie/tv distribution against Netflix.
                  But I simply don't think Netflix deserves a lot of special treatment, but a bit of recognition, the tech and the concept was already there and moving at a rapid pace, Netflix started out renting physical movies and then went digital. Other companies had done that. Netflix turned it into a subscription, other companies had done that. Netflix then borrowed billions to buy some exclusive content. We don't know yet if that was a smart move. But from before Netflix started studios were talking about releasing their content directly online and it was expected Netflix would struggle with their debt once that competition kicked in, sure they will have taken some cues on the Netflix presentation format, kinda wish they hadn't as I dislike it.
                  You are right pirated Disney discs was probably a big thing I was thinking of torrent pirates, (But gee any of those discs I saw were horrible quality.) I do remember Disney being very protective of it's distribution and reading that ongoing back catalogue distribution was a very big deal for them via video then DVD sales, so no way they were ever going to just hand it off to Netflix. Who knows maybe they had the clout to keep the DVD market alive and stay off streaming,lol. Don't need to answer my points just a conversation.

  • ozwolf on 15/10/2022 - 16:43

    I was considering it but not very sure. There is plenty of free content on free to air TV with ads, in any case. Also lots of free entertainment on youtube.

    Might still try it out though, at some point.

  • ItchyBallsack on 15/10/2022 - 18:18

    Or just install a vpn, download off pirate bay and connect your pc to tv via hdmi and u can watch anything u want to. Free of charge

    • Lucille Bluth on 15/10/2022 - 18:44

      I torrent and Chromecast off my phone CinemaHD and Cyberflix to TV with Real Debrid, but sometimes you just want to play something after work without doing multiple steps especially if you know it's on Netflix. Turkey Netflix for $6.47 doesn't break the bank and as such I am content paying that.

  • ItchyBallsack on 15/10/2022 - 18:23
    +1

    If Netflix want to make money they should add an offical p*rn section, maybe they can beat only fans lol

  • shutuptakemymoney101 on 15/10/2022 - 19:05

    So the same as Hulu?

  • lunartemis on 15/10/2022 - 20:04
    +1

    Not if it is like Crunchyroll free account…

    • RIPwallet on 15/10/2022 - 23:02

      Agreed, hate how the ads work on crunchyroll!!

  • SuperMid on 15/10/2022 - 21:19
    +3

    Piratebay all the way

  • jonow83 on 15/10/2022 - 22:07

    Won't affect me much. I just browse movies and add to my watchlist and never watch them then cancel my subscription for half the year.

  • gromit on 16/10/2022 - 09:42
    +1

    I am happy to pay to get no ads. I would go back to pirating before I paid for a service with ads.

  • CheapOjoe on 16/10/2022 - 10:59
    +1

    Every time I click on the Netflix button app on my TV controller I already feel dirty and start questioning myself "why are you watch boring Netflix in your free time?" . There is no way I would ever touch Netflix again if it contained ads.

  • LoserScott on 16/10/2022 - 14:38
    -2

    Typedef:Other.other.plan

    Plus Netflix can have the finger, the content they have isn't even entertaining…(well was)

    I can see YouTube doing something like this, and yes I switch between Netflix and YouTube but prefer YouTube more but tiktok even more.

    • Save 50 Cent on 16/10/2022 - 20:34

      What the hell are you talking about comparing netflix with tiktok?

      • KaTst3R on 16/10/2022 - 20:47
        -1

        Comparing apples to apples…

      • LoserScott on 17/10/2022 - 00:56
        -2

        Entertainment, entertainment fool.

  • Fobsessive on 16/10/2022 - 22:59
    -1

    No

  • StifferThanU on 16/10/2022 - 23:05

    I don't really want to pay money to see ads.

  • I Smell Pennies on 17/10/2022 - 00:23
    +2

    THIS IS MORE EXPENSIVE THAN MY TURKEY PREMIUM SUB LMAOAOAOO

    • Lunatic on 17/10/2022 - 10:24

      Footlong? What kind of cheese and sauce do you get?

  • Ryanek on 17/10/2022 - 07:57

    Hello torrents my old friend

    • serpserpserp on 17/10/2022 - 18:58

      So nice to see you again….

  • JimB on 17/10/2022 - 09:43

    Other poll option?

    'Existing leecher of 4K Premium subscriber and hoping the subscriber will not be changing plans'

  • LoserScott on 17/10/2022 - 10:13

    Was watching Netflix 15 minutes ago, geez the day break, and cannot help to think contents trash

    The south Korean stuffs great almost better quality cgi then most Hollywood blockbusters.

    Space sweepers one example, the dubbed versions are horrendous.

    Overall watching Netflix with adds with this content(excluding international would make someone scream for the hills)or the sea.

  • serpserpserp on 17/10/2022 - 18:57
    +1

    *laughs in turkish

  • ihfree on 17/10/2022 - 20:19

    Don't care - as long as it doesn't affect the paid tiers.

  • deepimpact on 17/10/2022 - 21:27

    Cinema android. Watch almost anything.

    • deepimpact on 18/10/2022 - 06:21

      Sideload apk on chromecast/android tv or cast from phone. Easiest solution by far.

  • kaleidoscope on 18/10/2022 - 08:19

    Yeah nah… On a movie night I’d rather see whats on sale and rent something instead subscribing to these spamy services. The time you save is enormous and more valuable. Apple tv+ can be bit of a difference as it only has first party titles.

  • figarow on 18/10/2022 - 11:55

    Ad supported plan should be free. THAT IS THE POINT OF ADS. Lame….

  • ajr5k on 18/10/2022 - 17:07

    Merhaba friends.

    • iBuzz7S on 18/10/2022 - 19:42

      Hello arkadaş

  • [Deactivated] on 18/10/2022 - 19:52

    Yaarrrrr !! Thank ye fer the offer but I do nah intend t' look 'n waste me time on ads.

  • [Deactivated] on 18/10/2022 - 20:29
    -2

    Don't support groomers.

  • MrQ12 on 18/10/2022 - 23:12

    yaaarrrr….will ye be joining me in sailing the 7 seas?

  • SpaceNinja on 07/11/2022 - 00:54

    Just switched to the $6.99 plan. Crappy 720p and ads will make everyone watch less Netflix while also saving cost. Its a winner!

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