Bad news for Canal+ subscribers: the year 2025 will begin with an increase in prices. Almost all offers are affected by this change.
In January 2025, most Canal+ subscriptions will cost more. The French group is starting to inform its subscribers by email of an upcoming increase of 2 or 2.50 euros per month, which rumors already mentioned several days ago. Even the most affordable offers, like Rat+ for those under 26, seem affected.
This is the first time that Canal+ has carried out a general price increase, which may be reminiscent of the practices of Netflix or Disney+.
Price increases at Canal+ in January 2025
In its email sent to subscribers, Canal+ writes that “ the monthly price excluding promotions and excluding options of your subscription will be increased by €2 per month, when your contract is renewed [en janvier] “. Thus, almost all offers are affected:
- Canal+ goes from 27.99 to 29.99 euros per month;
- Canal+ for those under 26: from 13.99 to 15.99 euros per month;
- Canal+ Ciné Séries: from 39.99 to 41.99 euros per month;
- Canal+ Sport: from 45.99 to 47.99 euros per month;
- Canal+ Sport for those under 26: from 22.99 to 24.99 euros per month;
- Canal+ Friends & Family: from 79.99 to 81.99 euros per month.
The options for said offers are not expected to increase. However, the Rat+ offer, dedicated to those under 26 and designed to be affordable, should increase by 2.50 euros per month. It would thus increase from 19.99 to 22.49 euros per month, according to an email received by subscribers. Especially since in 2022, Canal+ had already increased its prices: the VAT on its subscriptions had increased from 10 to 20%.
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In addition to this price increase, subscribers have another reason to be unhappy: Disney+ will no longer appear among the services offered in certain Canal+ subscriptions from January 1. Disney will no longer broadcast its films on Canal+, since it wishes to propel its own service into a new era.
Furthermore, the PassPresse, which allows you to read unlimited stores, will also disappear at the end of the year, as recalled Frandroid. He had replaced Cafeyn in the Canal offers.
How can these increases be explained? Canal+, which entered the stock market a few days earlier, has a duty to increase its revenues. Its IPO did not meet with the expected success, the group lost nearly 22% of its value in one day (which is in no way worrying). In the future, Canal+ must succeed in proving that it is a giant equal to Netflix.
Another important transformation: Canal+ is preparing to abandon TNT. Its frequency for C8 was not renewed and, to protest, the group decided to withdraw its pay channels from TNT. Its famous channel 4 will therefore disappear and only CNews and Cstar could remain (with new numbers). In short, for Canal+, the time has come for restructuring to earn more.
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