Marcus Thibodeau

Continuous monitoring catches price hikes that manual reviews miss between logins.

Line-by-line bill reviews reveal hidden price increases that autopay obscures.

Consumers are cutting subscriptions they don't need and keeping those with measurable value.

Publishers are quietly raising prices on existing subscribers as growth stalls.

Netflix turned password sharing into a conversion machine that added 55 million paying subscribers.

Billing systems are designed to hide the true cost of your subscriptions from you.

Retail memberships can replace standalone subscriptions only where your spending already overlaps.

Federal law requires sellers to disclose trial terms, get your consent, and make cancellation easy.

Sneaky fees hide the true cost of cable until the first bill arrives.

Streaming services have nearly rebuilt cable's price tag after promising to destroy it.

Pausing costs less than canceling but most subscribers don't know it exists.

How companies exploit psychology to keep you subscribed longer than you intend.

Bundled services hide how much you're really spending on each one.

Companies weaponize your fear of loss to make canceling subscriptions needlessly hard.