{"id":29558,"date":"2026-09-24T09:11:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T09:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/?p=29558"},"modified":"2026-09-24T09:11:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T09:11:04","slug":"disney-and-hulu-raise-prices-by-up-to-13-percent-after-doubling-profits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/?p=29558","title":{"rendered":"Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<p>Disney+ got its fourth price hike in four years today. Hulu prices also went up.<\/p>\n<p>Disney+ and Hulu\u2019s respective standalone, ad-free plans (which also support 4K and HDR) are each increasing 13 percent from $19 per month to $21.50\/month.<\/p>\n<p>Disney+ and Hulu\u2019s respective standalone plans with ads increased from $12 to $12.50.<\/p>\n<p>The Walt Disney Company also increased prices for bundles of the streaming services, including those with ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>The price for the Disney+ and Hulu bundle without ads increased from $20\/month to $22\/month. The Disney+ and Hulu bundle with ads ($13) didn\u2019t get more expensive.<\/p>\n<p>However, prices increased for the Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN Select bundles with ads (from $20 to $22) and without ads (from $29 to $33).<\/p>\n<p>Monthly subscription prices for Hulu + Live, which adds cable channels delivered over the Internet to Hulu\u2019s on-demand options, went up by $10.<\/p>\n<p>For comparison, Netflix is currently $9\/month with ads and starts at $20\/month without ads. There\u2019s also a $27\/month ad-free plan for premium features, like 4K. That means Disney+ and Hulu are both more expensive than the most popular streaming service now, unless you want 4K or HDR.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/09\/disney-and-hulu-raise-prices-by-up-to-13-percent-after-doubling-profits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney+ got its fourth price hike in four years today. Hulu prices also went up. Disney+ and Hulu\u2019s respective standalone, ad-free plans (which also support 4K and HDR) are each increasing 13 percent from $19 per month to $21.50\/month. Disney+ and Hulu\u2019s respective standalone plans with ads increased from $12 to $12.50. The Walt Disney<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[11136,14205,14204,5315,7077,14206,3451],"class_list":["post-29558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gear","tag-disney","tag-doubling","tag-hulu","tag-percent","tag-prices","tag-profits","tag-raise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}