£336 message issued to households with Netflix, Amazon Prime or Disney+

Many of us subscribe to streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Prime and Disney+. But households are now being asked how much they actually use all of these services.

Costs for subscriptions can add up these days with so many different ones available, meaning it can be a significant expense every month for millions of families. But many households are signed up to these services and continue to pay for them even though they hardly ever or never use them.

This can be because of a reluctance to cancel them or because people just forget they are signed up to them and fail to check how much money goes out of their account each month. Money experts say if you're not regularly using these services, it's probably worth cancelling them as it could deliver major savings each month to be spent on other things.

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This could be particularly the case in households signed up to more than one of the main streaming services for example. If one or more of these regularly goes unused, you may want to question whether it's worth keeping it or whether the money could be saved.

The combined cost for Netflix, Amazon Prime and Disney+ on standard plans is £336 a year, a big outlay for families, particularly if money is tight. Many people also have other services on top of this like Spotify. MoneySavingExpert.com, the popular website founded by Martin Lewis, has advised households to have no more than one of the main streaming services and to pick their favourite that they're likely to get most use out of.

They said: "As Netflix lets you share your plan with anyone in your home, and its standard and premium plans allow multiple people to watch different content on different devices at the same time, it's almost NEVER worth paying for more than one subscription in the same household. You're usually better off getting a pricier plan and splitting the cost.

Martin Lewis has also previously voiced concerns about people signing up to trials for streaming services and then never cancelling, despite the fact they may hardly ever or never use them. He said in 2021: "A lot of people, I have to say, are saying they know they shouldn't have them and they don't watch that much but they don't cancel."