almost half of readers share streaming services within family

With more and more streaming services in the Netherlands, it is becoming more and more expensive to have so many subscriptions. So it’s no wonder that many Dutch people share their accounts with others: that makes a difference. Our readers appear to share a lot of accounts within the family, no less than 45 percent, but there is also plenty of sharing outside the family: 31 percent shares their account(s) with people outside their own family.

Share streaming services

Earlier this week, in our poll, we asked you to share if you do account sharing. Whether it’s Netflix, Videoland, Disney+ or something else, it doesn’t matter. Do you only see one profile when you log in, or have you indeed provided a profile and a login for your neighbour, your mother and your best friend? It turns out we do that a lot: three quarters of the readers share their accounts. 45 percent stick to their own family or household, while 31 percent also share outside the family or household.

18 percent don’t share their account with anyone, 4 percent don’t want to say anything about it and 3 percent choose ‘other’. Apparently we do feel that it is a bit sneaky and sometimes not quite the intention to share our accounts. Edwin1 says, for example: “I secretly share the Netflix account with my father.🙄 Don’t tell me any more.😁”

No Netflix

One option that we didn’t add to the poll, but of course still exists, is that people don’t have any streaming services at all: Jaap.Z, for example. Nobody also needed another answer option: “I don’t use any of the official streaming apps so there’s nothing to share.” There are of course also illegal ways to watch Netflix content, but unlike the sometimes somewhat shadowy sharing of accounts, this is really prohibited.

What is not forbidden is participating in the AW Poll again next week. Until then!