DStv Premium costs the same as several of the most popular video streaming services in South Africa combined. But despite competition against these services heating up, MultiChoice has continued to increase DStv’s prices.
MultiChoice continues to hike DStv prices annually even as it bleeds its most valuable subscribers, despite the growing competition from more affordable video streaming services.
While Openview enjoys relative success, its subscription-free model means eMedia does not have the funding to invest in the range or depth of content as DStv. The chart below shows how the DStv Premium price increased between 2000 and 2022 relative to South Africa’s official inflation rate. For the same R839 per month for Premium, you could take up a combination of eight other video streaming services.
While this might seem exorbitant, it should be noted that this was Netflix’s first price increase since entering South Africa in 2016.
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