The streaming media organization is raising the costs of its standard and premium plans for US clients. Its standard plan is present $14 per month, up to $1 every month from a year ago.

Its premium subscription will go up to $2 to $18 per month. Its basic plan stays unchanged at $9 every month.

Netflix’s stock rose 5% following the news.

The new costs will produce results beginning quickly for new individuals while current individuals will be advised that their subscription is going up as it turns out throughout the next few months.

“We understand people have more entertainment choices than ever and we’re committed to delivering an even better experience for our members,” a Netflix spokesperson said in a statement. “We’re updating our prices so that we can continue to offer more variety of TV shows and films.”

The representative added that Netflix offers “a range of plans so that people can pick a price that works best for their budget.”

Netflix’s price hike, which was first revealed by The Verge, is anything but an immense astonishment. Netflix spends billions on content, and this is an approach to help income as the “outlook for subscriber growth is substantially slower in the future than the past,” as indicated by Bernie McTernan, a senior examiner at Rosenblatt Securities.

“The price increase was a matter of when not if,” McTernan told CNN Business. “It shows they think people will be willing to pay more for the service as the pandemic disrupts content production thus making their vast library more valuable.”

The news comes seven days the organization posted easing back development in new subscriptions and lower-than-anticipated benefits. This came after Netflix had a gigantic 2020 in light of individuals being stuck at home during the Covid pandemic.

Netflix was gotten some information about raising costs during its profit call a week ago.

“The core model we have, and what we think really our responsibility and our job is, is to take the money that our members give us every month and invest that as judiciously and as smartly as we can,” Greg Peters, Netflix’s chief operating officer, said on the call. “If we do that well … and make that efficiency and effectiveness better, we will deliver more value to our members, and we will occasionally go back and ask those members to pay a little bit more to keep that virtuous cycle of investment and value creation going.”

Netflix is the ruler of streaming and the moves it makes, particularly regarding the cost to the purchaser, resonates all through the market.

For instance, McTernan noticed that Disney’s stock had a positive response following the declaration of Netflix’s pricing going up.

“This will give Disney+ cover to raise prices at some point,” he said.