How many subscriptions do you currently have?

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo · 22-03-2019 6:13pm #1

Not talking about your basic bills - Electricity, Internet, Mobile, Food. But subscriptions that you pay over for monthly mainly for entertainment.

I'm at 4.
- Netflix
- PlayStation Plus (paid yearly for a discount)
- Sports Podcast
- YouTuber my child likes

I had to cop myself on and move all subscriptions to my 2nd current account as things started getting a bit silly. Had to axe Amazon Prime and Fight Pass as I was about to add Eir/BT Sport without thinking of how much they all added up to per month. Am lucky that I can use Sky Sports through the Sky Go app on my TV at no additional cost.

We are in the age of the monthly subscription.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 22-03-2019 6:15pm

Sky and Netflix.

Hector Savage · 22-03-2019 6:18pm

Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO

Astronomy magazine.

Lollipops23 · 22-03-2019 6:19pm

Netflix, Spotify, Now TV (it was my xmas present to my mam last year) and a gym membership.

Tell me how · 22-03-2019 6:20pm

Netflix - Value for money as I watch on 3 devices, in 3 different parts of the country, often on the same day
Sky - No longer value for money as sports content is decreasing month by month (they make it a b*tch to phone and cancel)
Spotfiy - Value for money as the days of CD's are behind us and I am an applephobe.

I suspect that someone somewhere sometime will develop a radical new platform (not really) which will manage your subscription and access to various services for a fixed amount. They should be able to beat direct subscription cost for each once they can get numbers up and can prove that it in reality many people only use each service for a fairly limited number of hours/month.

OldMrBrennan83 · 22-03-2019 6:22pm

Netflix.
Amazon Prime.
YouTube Premium/YouTube Music/Play Music.
Spotify.
Tidal.
Microsoft Office 365 Family.
Google One 250GB.
Second Captains on Patreon.
Project Binky on Patreon.

patmahe · 22-03-2019 6:24pm

Netflix
Spotify
Amazon Prime (Month free trial-doubt I'll keep it)
Gym

Once a year I'll get Eurosport player for a Month so I can keep up with the Le Mans 24 hour race too.
Considering Now TV but don't know if I can justify the cost.

aaronjumper · 22-03-2019 6:24pm

One for Xbox Live Gold, I use a family members Netflix and don't sign in to Youtube when browsing.
Don't really need anything after that.

devlinio · 22-03-2019 6:25pm

Netflix
Spotify
Gym
ICloud

I just cancelled Amazon Prime

One eyed Jack · 22-03-2019 6:29pm

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

We are in the age of the monthly subscription.

We are indeed, and it’s only likely to become more popular - SaaS it’s called.

I have subs for Sky, YouTube and my employer pays for a couple of other services like online archiving/backup storage providers and Office 365/Windows 10.

I’ll probably pay for Xbox Live and PSN when I get the games consoles in the coming weeks. I know - it’s a bit like buying dog food because it’s a bargain, and then buying the dog, but Google’s latest offering could be a game changer (pun shamelessly intended

) -

Google Unveils Gaming Platform Stadia, A Competitor To Xbox, PlayStation And PC

LorelaiG · 22-03-2019 7:47pm

Netflix, Spotify and Now TV, just the cinema because we have Virgin Media for a ridiculously low price p/m because they worked in our garden to lay wires and offered us a discount for the inconvenience.

Will I Am Not · 22-03-2019 7:52pm

Netflix, Adobe, Spotify, Sky, dodgy streaming service, PlayStation Plus.
Probably comes close to €150 a month :eek:

L1011 · 22-03-2019 7:54pm

Irish Times including some delivery. Times Ireland is free from work. Partner has Spotify.

I still buy CDs and DVDs as patchy availability / content changing across services etc is too annoying.

eviltwin · 22-03-2019 7:57pm

Netflix
Spotify for the chislers
Audible
Sky although the other half pays that

dastardly00 · 22-03-2019 8:02pm

Virgin Media - TV/internet/phone (split 50:50 with OH)
Netflix - premium (I pay all of it as OH used to)
Spotify - family plan (OH's dad pays for all of us in the plan

)
Strava - premium
TrainerRoad
Patreon - Second Captains podcast

~€63 each month out of my pocket

facehugger99 · 22-03-2019 8:04pm

Netflix
Amazon Prime
Spotify
PS Plus

That's all I need.

Purple Mountain · 22-03-2019 8:10pm

None!

donspeekinglesh · 22-03-2019 8:10pm

patmahe wrote: »

Once a year I'll get Eurosport player for a Month so I can keep up with the Le Mans 24 hour race too.

Keep an eye out around Black Friday and you can get an annual sub for next to nothing. Paid a tenner last year.

I generally use the WEC app though - more expensive, but has way more features for following the race (and the rest of the championship).

I have a lot of subs, Amazon Prime, irishtimes.com, Google Drive, Play Music (comes from my phone credit), Plex pass, Netflix, Ring.com (for our doorbell and floodlight for the back garden). A few more apps and websites too.

Mostly paid annually, so don't know what the monthly cost is.

SEPT 23 1989 · 22-03-2019 8:11pm

Some Chinese carry on

Pherekydes · 22-03-2019 8:11pm

Wife pays Sky and Netflix.

The only one I pay for, other than the internet, is Redhotpawn.

Pawn, not porn, you filthy minds.

Mint Sauce · 22-03-2019 8:13pm

Just Netflix, and don't even make full use if that. Will probably get Eurosport during the summer sometime to keep up with some of the Cycling, Tennis, and Le Man.

Fann Linn · 22-03-2019 8:14pm

Sky,
Netflix family sub,
Times Ireland account.

cjragoo · 22-03-2019 8:15pm

Netflix (used frequently)
Deezer (used frequently)
WWE network (need to cancel, never watch it)
Playstation network (barely used, should cancel aswell)
Nintendo online (barely used but only 3 quid a month)
Eleven sports (have since August dont think I've watched a single match on it!)

Woke Hogan · 22-03-2019 8:16pm

My phone, electricity, the landline and broadband.

I tried Netflix for a while but it was full of those awful ****ing superhero films so we got rid of it. Imagine a grown man paying a tenner a month or whatever it is to watch that ****e. Jesus Christ.

AllForIt · 22-03-2019 8:17pm

Zero

Did you know you can upload 50,000 of your personal music files to google music and stream them to you phone when you wish for free! Uploaded over 100GB over the last few days instead of buying a large capacity SD card. Came to 17,000 music files in total, about a third of what's permitted. Chuffed with that.

JohnnyFlash · 22-03-2019 8:20pm

Got one of those dodgy IPTV services that a Lithuanian lad in work set up for me. It’s feckin’ mighty - all the TV channels, all the sports, thousands of movies and box sets, all the HBO, Netflix, and Amazon Prime stuff uploaded a few hours after broadcast. Even has the dirty channels if that’s your thing. 9 quid a month or something like that.

Allinall · 22-03-2019 8:22pm

I’ve 3 currently.

One for gout.

One for blood pressure.

And one that I keep forgetting to fill for contact lenses.

_Kaiser_ · 22-03-2019 8:25pm

Office 365
Get Spotify through a mate
IPTV

theteal · 22-03-2019 8:26pm

Virgin Media (inc BT Sport) £34pm
Xbox Gold £20pa
Netflix £3-5pm iirc

I pick up the odd NowTV sub when the mood takes e.g. sports at Xmas, entertainment for GoT.

Fifty grades of shay. · 22-03-2019 8:26pm

Netflix, 3 of us use it for the one fee per month and we don't all live together.
Now TV for sport and movies.
Spotify included in my Vodafone sub for 5.99 pm.
Irish Times newspaper.

I quit smoking a couple of years ago and started my now TV sub at that time as a treat and to remind myself that my money was better spent on that than cigs and if I went back on them I'd have to cancel as I couldn't afford both.
Now TV is a lot more entertaining and cheaper than cigs.

jester77 · 22-03-2019 8:26pm

Netflix
Prime
DAZN
Sky
Google Music
Nintendo Switch Online

Neames · 22-03-2019 8:26pm

Just Spotify. Brilliant...10 quid for pretty much unlimited music and I used to spend a lot of cash on CDs down through the years.

theteal · 22-03-2019 8:27pm

AllForIt wrote: »

Zero

Did you know you can upload 50,000 of your personal music files to google music and stream them to you phone when you wish for free! Uploaded over 100GB over the last few days instead of buying a large capacity SD card. Came to 17,000 music files in total, about a third of what's permitted. Chuffed with that.

I did, it’s an awful pain and the only way I could get my music on the stupid apple phone. Signal on the train line is patchy. Give me local storage any day.

Nigel Fairservice · 22-03-2019 8:28pm

Spotify, Now TV and Netflix.

Franz Von Peppercorn · 22-03-2019 8:29pm

Netflix
Apple Music
Amazon prime.

Of course I also pay for the internet, electricity and other services so this isn’t a new thing. My internet includes a TV package.

Fanny Wank · 22-03-2019 8:30pm

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Got one of those dodgy IPTV services that a Lithuanian lad in work set up for me. It’s feckin’ mighty - all the TV channels, all the sports, thousands of movies and box sets, all the HBO, Netflix, and Amazon Prime stuff uploaded a few hours after broadcast. Even has the dirty channels if that’s your thing. 9 quid a month or something like that.

Paid 60 quid a year for similar - the absolute job. I'd not have bothered if Sky/Virgin weren't such a colossal rip-off

I also have Netflix and Spotify (family version scam so 2.50 a month)

SEPT 23 1989 · 22-03-2019 8:32pm

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Got one of those dodgy IPTV services that a Lithuanian lad in work set up for me. It’s feckin’ mighty - all the TV channels, all the sports, thousands of movies and box sets, all the HBO, Netflix, and Amazon Prime stuff uploaded a few hours after broadcast. Even has the dirty channels if that’s your thing. 9 quid a month or something like that.

Went for the 3 month option myself

JustLen · 22-03-2019 8:34pm

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

Am lucky that I can use Sky Sports through the Sky Go app on my TV at no additional cost.

How so?

L1011 · 22-03-2019 8:37pm

AllForIt wrote: »

Zero

Did you know you can upload 50,000 of your personal music files to google music and stream them to you phone when you wish for free! Uploaded over 100GB over the last few days instead of buying a large capacity SD card. Came to 17,000 music files in total, about a third of what's permitted. Chuffed with that.

Didn't mention that in my post as I didn't consider it a subscription; but I've done that. Annoying thing is that Google Home can't control it except playlists.

super_furry · 22-03-2019 8:41pm

Too many.

Netflix
Amazon Prime
PS Plus
Xbox Live
EA Access
Xbox Games Pass
Nintendo Online
Irish Times
Spotify (free with Vodafone)

I cancelled Shudder last month because I never watched it and most of those that I do have are annual one-off payments.

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo · 22-03-2019 10:31pm

JustLen wrote: »

How so?

My dad pays for all the channels in his house and would have no idea how to use the Sky Go App so I use it for the tv my living room and bedroom. It's all above board and super handy.

dhaughton99 · 22-03-2019 10:38pm

Google drive 50gb @ €5 a year (grandfathered from old account) and ITunes Match @ €25 a year.

Touchee · 22-03-2019 11:30pm

One eyed Jack wrote: »

We are indeed, and it’s only likely to become more popular - SaaS it’s called.

I have subs for Sky, YouTube and my employer pays for a couple of other services like online archiving/backup storage providers and Office 365/Windows 10.

I’ll probably pay for Xbox Live and PSN when I get the games consoles in the coming weeks. I know - it’s a bit like buying dog food because it’s a bargain, and then buying the dog, but Google’s latest offering could be a game changer (pun shamelessly intended ) -

Google Unveils Gaming Platform Stadia, A Competitor To Xbox, PlayStation And PC

SaaS is something I became familiar with in more recent times and read a bit about it. There is a book written by the CEO of Zuora about subscription based models and it kind of explains the transition from products to services and subscription revenue.

wally1990 · 22-03-2019 11:37pm

Gym

Accountancy body sub

IPTV for live TV, movies , sports you name it , video on demand whole works (greatest thing ever )

Kindle unlimited

daheff · 23-03-2019 12:16am

Purple Mountain wrote: »

None!

me neither.... other than tv internet utilities

but it is the way forward.... especially for tv/movies/music

0ph0rce0 · 23-03-2019 12:22am

Tell me how wrote:

Netflix - Value for money as I watch on 3 devices, in 3 different parts of the country, often on the same day Sky - No longer value for money as sports content is decreasing month by month (they make it a b*tch to phone and cancel) Spotfiy - Value for money as the days of CD's are behind us and I am an applephobe.

Tell me how wrote:

I suspect that someone somewhere sometime will develop a radical new platform (not really) which will manage your subscription and access to various services for a fixed amount. They should be able to beat direct subscription cost for each once they can get numbers up and can prove that it in reality many people only use each service for a fairly limited number of hours/month.

Jesus christ. Subs not a ****ing life story.

Netflix
Amazon Prime
Spotify

arybvtcw0eolkf · 23-03-2019 12:24am

I guess Netflix, its about the only thing I watch on my TV.

After that I'm guessing Amazon for Kindle books/downloads

I really should set up Spotify, but haven't yet.

Beasty · 23-03-2019 12:26am

Currently subscribed to 9,913 threads on Boards.ie

Beasty · 23-03-2019 12:26am

Oops! - better make that 9,914

This is it · 23-03-2019 12:38am

Netflix, Spotify, and IPTV. Pretty sure that's it. All are used fairly frequently and cost about €30 in total, not too bad.

Monokne · 23-03-2019 12:41am

jester77 wrote: »

Netflix
Prime
DAZN
Sky
Google Music
Nintendo Switch Online

What do you watch on DAZN, out of curiousity?

How many subscriptions do you currently have?

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