And one pro tip: Your cellphone company might offer free or discounted service to a streamer (see: Sprint’s Hulu promotion or T-Mobile’s “Netflix on Us” offer), so check their websites, too, or our guide to phone plans offering streaming discounts. Many services try to make themselves look a bit less expensive by setting their prices at, say, $6.99 instead of $7 we opted to round up to the next dollar when listing costs. We’ve tried to find streamers serving all sorts of tastes and communities both narrow and broad.Ī few notes: We want this guide to help you decide how to spend your money, so we didn’t include any platform that was completely free or ad-supported (think Pluto or STIRR). We’ve put together a master list of dozens of subscription-based video platforms covering a range of interests, from movies and general entertainment to sports and education. Still, even figuring out which streamers to check out takes some digging - and that’s where Vulture has your back. A seven-day trial is usually the minimum sampling period, but as competition heats up, some platforms have been giving away an entire month of service. The good news is that, unlike cable, almost all streaming services let you try out their product before you have to fully commit. Nobody ever said the streaming revolution would be cheap - or easy. All that on top of literally dozens of other smaller services and niche platforms for audiences with specialized tastes. A supersize version of HBO called, appropriately enough, HBO Max made waves in 2020 and then came Paramount+, a revamped and rebranded CBS All Access. Apple TV+ and Disney+ came online in November 2019, while Peacock has hit living rooms and commandeered all episodes of The Office. Even during the early days of streaming, you could count on finding most big shows and movies on one of the big three platforms (Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video) or the digital versions of the big premium cable networks (HBO Now, Showtime).īut it’s not so simple anymore: Since late 2019, there’s been a barrage of new platform launches as big media companies scramble for position in the post-cable universe. There are dozens of streaming services these days, and some of them are even pretty good.įinding something to watch on TV used to be as simple as turning on the set, flipping through a few dozen channels, and stopping when you stumbled upon something worth checking out.
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