Disney+ Internet Video Streaming Service Hikes UK Prices for 2025
Internet video streaming provider Disney+ has followed its usual annual trend by once again hitting new UK customers with a fresh round of price hikes, which are due to all be introduced from on or after 4th November 2025 (or 25th November 2025 if you have an annual plan).
In terms of the actual price changes. The “Standard with Ads” plan has increased by +£1 to £5.99 per month, while “Standard” increases by +£1 to £9.99 (or £89.90 to £99.90 annually) and “Premium” surges by +£2 to reach £14.99 (or £129.90 to £149.90 annually). This represents another annual inflation busting increase that ranges from 11% to 20%, depending upon your plan and whether it’s a monthly or annual payment.
The Extra Member option now also costs £4.99 per month for users of “Standard with Ads” (up from £3.99), and £5.99 for both the “Standard” and “Premium” plans (up from £4.99). Suffice to say that the endless price hikes and ever-increasing fragmentation of streaming TV and movie content continues to get worse, which increasingly risks driving many consumers back to more unlawful pursuits.
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I don’t think they realise the more they increase prices, the more customers they will lose, I understand that costs have increased, but also household bills are increasing as well. Streaming services will be the first to go.
I know it is still cheaper than going to the cinema, but people go to cinemas for the big screen or for new films.
I got rid of Disney+ a couple of weeks ago, because
(a) I was not really using it a lot.
(b) the price.
I know it is possible to go to a lower price services with adverts.
I now have two streaming services, Prime video, because that comes with Prime and offers more than just video and ITVX. Some stuff I like watching on ITV, but a little annoyed that I pay for premium and still have to put up with adverts, every 10 to 15 minutes on some stuff like The Flash, okay, so the adverts are only a few seconds. But still annoying.l
People will cut down and the n Disney will be saying they lost customers.
They are not showing any nett losses and it is reported that they now reach more than one quarter of UK households. I think they can afford to adjust prices and earn some returns on their investments.
@Far I’d like to see what the statistics are for that though. I revived 12 months free via Uber and another 12 Months free via VM so it would be nice to know how many are independently subscribed and how many received free access via things like VM/Sky/Uber etc
@AQX:
Businesses are unlikely to give you such a breakdown of their numbers.
As it is, Disney makes a very comfortable profit.
Hi Some corrections maybe needed Mark. Just logged to my account the the prices show as below – not sure if the new or old prices:
Premium = £14.99
Standard with Ads = £5.99
Standard = £8.99
Yearly plans
Premium = £149
Standard £99
I’m using what’s on their website for new customers:
https://help.disneyplus.com/en-GB/article/disneyplus-price
Pure greed by the streamers is sadly becoming commonplace. The race for content is only getting more difficult as more streamers try to carve a niche. It’s like the ITV and Sky days of squabbling over sports rights, but on a far greater scale.
How much do you think they should be charging for their baseline service?
Most of the streamers are not making much money at all compared to their costs of production.
No empathy for “costs of production” as the streamers responsible for it. They came in and overpaid the odds so that production companies were tied up making programmes for them rather than terrestrial broadcasters, and that has pushed the prices right up sky high for BRITISH broadcasters now.
Their model was to bankrupt the terrestrial companies in each company, get the archives cheap (particularly if a commercial broadcaster) and then do what they wanted in terms of cheaper American imports and pricing strategy.
Its like the 80’s when the public used to get sports free on Terrestrial, covered under the usual license fee for any live content from any broadcaster, and now they pay ridiculous money to Sky Sports, TNT Sports, Premier Sports, often locked in to long contracts if part of a TV bundle.
@FANNY ADAMS:
It’s their content, they made it. If you want access to it, you pay what they’re asking price. If you are unhappy with the numbers, don’t pay and go elsewhere. If they are perturbed by the reluctance of potential customers to sign up, they may change their pricing. That is the way of the world, and markets have always been like that. It is silly to be upset about it.
I took it out when first released, £50 a year…
you used to get the blockbusters at same time as sky store etc, now 2 months later.
Apparently there’s now a rumour that they may be relaunching the Disney Channel on Sky:
https://x.com/DTVANews/status/1973040342443385281
If true and onsidering the timing, I wonder if they’re expecting an exodus or going to try and promote D+ content this way.
There is selective programming offered to other providers, including Sky and ITVX.
And by all accounts D+ is still losing them a shedload of money.
The losses were made due to overambitious contracts signed during the height of COVID. DIsney+ itself is on target for profitability.
There’s just not enough new content arriving to keep me subscribed on any of the streaming services.
With Disney if you go through the renewal screens but back out they usually email you an offer a few days later.
I’ve just had 3 months at £1.99 a month. Gone to cancel and offered another 3 months at £2.99. I’ve watched everything I wanted to though so I’ve cancelled.
I find that Disney don’t have enough content. Their back catalogue is limited, and once you’ve watched that there isn’t enough new stuff. I’ve never thought they (or Paramount) had enough content to support their own services.
Netflix / Amazon have much more new content that Disney+, so there is a higher chance of something new that I’m interested in. On top of that they also have deeper back catalogues – so there is still content I missed first time around to watch. And of course Amazon have other benefits anyway.
Without some joined up thinking across the streaming industry, I feel these price hikes will end one way eventually – Pirating increasing (regardless of it being wrong).
People won’t deal with price hikes forever if the alternative is free (but illegal!).
There is simply too many streaming services and by all accounts Netflix are about the only ones actually making any money out of it.
Yeah they all saw Netflix making a ton of money from licensed content and thought they could make more by running their own streams. It’s not working out for most of them and actually the multiplying costs from a consumer’s point of view is driving piracy again reducing revenues. I think there will be a move back to licensing rather than direct streaming.
If the Paramount/Warner merger goes through to completion, there will be another shake-out in the industry.
I switched long time ago to Stremio, paying 16 euros every 6 months for real debrid and I can stream in 4K, 1080p any movie I can think of.
Well, after just paying my yearly subs to D+ the other week, this hike means this will be my last year with them. I rarely use it, but the children do, and they are getting older and I’m noticing their viewing habits changing. I’m unlikely to go down the pirate route, as have never done that so far in life, but I have moved my personal viewing to more free-to-air stuff over the past year. That said, I do currently subscribe to pretty much everything barring Apple. Next year I intend to just activate subs for a month when I know I can binge a full series, then cancel. All my current subs are premium, as no point having 4K screens if I’m only watching HD, so this move will save me a few quid over the year, and is something that I’m copying from friends who have also lost patience with these inflation busting increases.
The content wasn’t worth last years prices unless you got one of their yearly deals for the full UHD package under 80.
They want more for less, also they removed a tonne of the good old content which you now can’t get anywhere without hunting down out of print DVD’s and blu-rays or resorting to piracy.
Streaming was supposed to end piracy, it’s bringing it back now.