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Black Friday is over, but you can still find great savings on streaming memberships this weekend as we head into Cyber Monday. Some of the biggest services have great discounts for new and select returning members, including Disney+, Hulu, Paramount+, and Peacock.

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Disney+ and Hulu

Starting with the Disney+ and Hulu bundle, you can get Hulu (with ads) and Disney+ (with ads) for $2.99 per month for an entire year, down from the regular $10.99 per month price. This offer is valid for new and eligible returning Hulu/Disney+ subscribers.



As usual, this offer will revert to the regular $10.99 per month price (or then-current regular monthly price) at the end of your first year. Shoppers have until 11:59 p.m. PST on December 2 to take advantage of this offer.

Additionally, if you just want Hulu (with ads), you can get it for $0.99 per month for a year, down from $9.99 per month.

Paramount+

You can get either Paramount+ Essential or Paramount+ with Showtime for $2.99 per month for your first two months this Black Friday. Paramount+ Essential is typically priced at $7.99 per month, while Paramount+ with Showtime is typically priced at $12.99 per month.



Shoppers should remember that this deal is only for the first two months of your Paramount+ subscription, and after that period it will return to its regular pricing structure. Paramount+ is only focusing on monthly plans this Black Friday, and there are no deals on annual plans.

Peacock

Peacock has one of the best all-around streaming deals this week. You can get a full year of Peacock (premium annual plan) for $19.99, down from $79.99. You can also opt to pay $1.99 per month for six months. This plan includes ads.



This sale will run through December 2, and is available to new and select returning customers.

If you're on the hunt for more discounts, be sure to visit our Apple Deals roundup where we recap the best Apple-related bargains of the past week.


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Article Link: Cyber Monday Streaming Deals Include Big Savings on Disney+, Hulu, Paramount+, and Peacock
 
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Queue the people complaining about paying very cheap rates for TV show on-demand services and "still" having ads... after decades of same people paying way more for cable/sat TV that was not on-demand and had way more ads.
 
This madness will drive all back to cable. I find cable to offer the best value. Perhaps I am old school, but cable offers the best options with not having to figure out where go to find a show. NFL is an example, the games are all over the place, it’s becoming impossible to find games between network and streaming channels. I find streaming to be an experience of failure.
 
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Great price for Hulu. 1/2 the price of my student plan ($1.99) that ill be losing in the next month anyways.
 
I canceled Netflix and Disney+ about a year ago. But I'm bothered by the way these companies behave. They want our money. but is Black Friday only in the US?
Ok. If I had the power I would let them go bankrupt for that behavior.
All the benefits only in the US. But European money is OK, right?
It would be good if all American companies left the whole world and went back home and only sold to Americans
 
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I was happy to give these companies $7-8 per month. At their current pricing, it's a pirate's life for me... and they now get nothing from me. (Well... Disney gets something because Verizon includes it in my wireless plan).
 
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This madness will drive all back to cable. I find cable to offer the best value. Perhaps I am old school, but cable offers the best options with not having to figure out where go to find a show. NFL is an example, the games are all over the place, it’s becoming impossible to find games between network and streaming channels. I find streaming to be an experience of failure.
This works fine if you do not want to watch anything on any of the streamers. More and more content is exclusive to a streaming platform. Just ends up with cable and streaming services to be paying more money. The NFL as an example is also not great, as if you want to watch an out of area game, you are still boned unless it is Sunday Night Football. If you want Thursday, you need Amazon, or NFL Network. If you want Monday, and your local team is not playing, you need ESPN. Those are usually in separate packages adding more than getting almost every streaming platform without ads to your cable subscription. With the subscriptions we have, adding them all together is less than $75 a month. Yes we have moved a couple of services to with ads based on these promos, but for the amount we actually watch each service we now pay about half as much as Disney alone was going to cost for Disney, Hulu, Starz, and Peacock. Even if I got all the services I have now without ads, it would still be less than the $200 cable wants to get a similar amount of content, and I would watch significantly less of it than I will with the streaming services.

TL: DR: Saying cable is cheaper or easier is generally disingenuous at worst or just plain lazy at best.
 
I was happy to give these companies $7-8 per month. At their current pricing, it's a pirate's life for me... and they now get nothing from me. (Well... Disney gets something because Verizon includes it in my wireless plan).
Every couple of years something comes along I want to see, and a sub isn't worth it when I want ONE show. So yeah I pirate. Otherwise nothing of value to be had.
 
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I wanted to give paramount+ some money, to view TG AU, but they dont take EU cards :(
 
Paramount+ deal was way better last year. I got the annual premium plan at 50% off!

They got me though. I'll pay full price this year.
 
Queue the people complaining about paying very cheap rates for TV show on-demand services and "still" having ads... after decades of same people paying way more for cable/sat TV that was not on-demand and had way more ads.
Here's a new complaint, USA only. I tried to sign up for hulu and it wanted a zip code. I thought about using 90210 and hoping I could pay with PayPal but rethought being a pirate would be easier.
 
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As usual, Black Friday deals get worse and worse. And of course Netflix thinks of themselves too highly to offer any type of discount. It would be nice if they offered something. I got the Hulu and Disney bundle because I was considering joining Hulu again anyway. I've had the bundle without ads, and think $3/month is a decent price with ads. The Peacock deal is solid too, $20 for a year with ads.

The promo period for this year's "deals" is too short in most cases. 2 months of discounted HBO, 2 months of free Paramount. Disappointing and not worth the time. Even if I didn't already have both, this offer wouldn't entice me to sign up. I'd only consider a promo if it's for 6+ months.
 
Two years ago, Disney/Hulu offered plans for the same prices without ads. Last year, they got rid of the ad-free deals. Hollywood’s overspending on projects along with losing money on junk nobody wants to watch has lead to the loss of those no-ad deals. I doubt we’ll see add-free deals anymore. Too many streaming services plus massive budgets mean companies are having trouble making money.
 
Queue the people complaining about paying very cheap rates for TV show on-demand services and "still" having ads... after decades of same people paying way more for cable/sat TV that was not on-demand and had way more ads.
PSA: there are 15000 people on the forum. Odds are they are not "same people" unless you actually checked the profiles.
 
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