Hulu, Disney+ and Max’s Streaming Bundle Has Launched — Find Out How Much It Costs
Looking to watch Only Murders in the Building, The Acolyte and Hacks without breaking the bank? You can now stream all three and more under one deal.
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A previously announced streaming bundle that includes Disney+, Hulu and Max — and offers access to entertainment brands such as ABC, HBO, FX, DC, Marvel, Discovery and HGTV — officially launched on Thursday in the United States with both ad-supported and ad-free plans.
The ad-supported plan (with ads to be served “in select live and linear content,” per Thursday’s launch announcement) will cost subscribers $16.99 a month, while going ad-free will cost $29.99 a month. The bundle is available for purchase on any of the three streaming platforms’ websites and, according to the streamers’ joint announcement, reflects “a savings of up to 38% compared with the price of the services purchased separately.”
Disney+, Hulu and Max’s bundle offering was first announced in May. At the time, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav described the bundle’s plans as “ad-lite” and ad-free, while the company’s global streaming chief JB Perrette said the bundle would be “priced very attractively for consumers.”
This latest bundle launch comes after Disney and Hulu deployed in March the Hulu on Disney+ bundle for U.S. subscribers, combining both streamers’ libraries into one convenient place.
“On the heels of the very successful launch of Hulu on Disney+, this new bundle with Max will offer subscribers even more choice and value,” Joe Earley, President of Direct to Consumer at Disney Entertainment, said in a statement in May. “This incredible new partnership puts subscribers first, giving them access to blockbuster films, originals, and three massive libraries featuring the very best brands and entertainment in streaming today.”
Disney+, Hulu and Max marked Thursday’s bundle launch with a minute-long promo for the offering, which you can watch above. Will you subscribe to this new streaming bundle? Sound off below!
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So this is essentially cable. People thought streaming was the way to save money🤣
It can be cheaper but people were shocked pikachu face when they realized only one cheap streaming service wasn’t going to provide all the content a bundled cable package provides. Maybe initially to suck you in but that wasn’t going to last forever and now we are paying a la carte prices for everything because that’s what people swore what they wanted, a choice.
Except that it truly isn’t a la carte. People who wanted a la carte wanted to cherry pick the shows they wanted, and not have to pay for what they did not watch.
The only exception to that are those individuals who are hooked on one of the cable news channels without having any interest in listening to any diversity in opinion. No matter what news channel they watch, they would rather just stick with one news channel filling their minds with ideological isolation with what they already believe with little to no counter viewpoints to burst their warm, snuggly, isolated bubble. That is news channel specific, not individual news channel program specific.
Back to television programming in general. I only watch a few shows of NBC Universal programming, and Peacock has a lot of crap that doesn’t interest me at all. The same goes for Paramount+, Disney, and Hulu. If they were truly a la carte, I would just be able to pay for the series and sports I wanted to watch, and not have to pay for their other crap that doesn’t interest me.
I am not a big fan of the sign up, cancel, sign up cancel after a series ends, concept.
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If people were able to pay for specific series instead of bundles of unwatchable crap, I think they would be much happier.
As I have said before, the future is a provide of content for the streaming services as well as whatever is left of linear television. That is here the money is going to be made. The streaming services themselves without out first run watchable content IMO, have little value.
Wow, that last paragraph isn’t understandable at all. Let me try this again.
As I have said before, being a content creator is where the money is made. The streaming services themselves aren’t worth much with out the first run watchable content. And right now, there is very little watchable first run content that is strictly available on the streaming side of things.
Cable, except for the handful of premium channels, never offered me ad-free options. That alone makes streaming superior, although I acknowledge that with the way things have been trending I won’t be surprised to see the ad-free options being phased out eventually.
You know, $16.99 or $29.99 a month is still WAY less than a cable package, and yeah it’s almost the same since Hulu carries a lot and then Disney and Max carry a crap ton. So yeah, it’s almost cable. But cable TV packages are usually over $100, the last I paid for one. Even if they are less than $100 now, and down to I would guess $50-100, that is still more than the $16.99 or $29.99 a month. So you’re not making a ton of sense. When you start adding other streaming services it adds up, but still would likely be less. Unless cable companies have wised up and decreased their prices.
Uhhhhhhhhhhh…….
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Sorta depends on the price, no?
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And I, too, am smiling now, at the smug “cord cutters,’ who quit cable for…web-based cable.
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Not strutting so much today, I bet.
I have several streaming services and still pay less than my basic cable.
Oh I bet that’s not really true. If so, congratulations
I have several streaming services and pay less for cable. I don’t count Netflix because I was paying for that when I had cable. My services give me the channels I want. With cable I had to pay more because some of the channels I wanted were not included with the basic and plus packages. And then I had to pay for additional channels.
Dude, my parents pay over 100 bucks for satellite they never stop complaining has nothing on, has really blah on-demand (with a slue of movies they would still have to pay an additional fee to watch), has unavoidable ads, is a pain in the butt to cancel, and cuts out in thunderstorms (for cable – cuts out or becomes scrambled randomly). I pay like 40 bucks for several services, watch 98% of anything I want, can watch several live TV channels and sports, can cancel whenever I like with no problem, have fewer ads, and can access anywhere I want whenever I want.
People who keep complaining streaming is now online cable come off like they’ve never had cable and that they need to always have every single streaming service at all times. Streaming may have crappy aspects, absolutely no doubt about that, but it’s still nowhere near as expensive or bad as cable/satellite.
I bet it IS true. I never cut cords, and have AT&T Uverse….which AT&T no longer wants to provide, but can’t force people off. But because of that, I pay $325 a month. Take a crap ton of streamers to cost that much!
Thanks to Black Friday and other deals, I’m currently paying $5/month for Peacock, Hulu, Disney, and Paramount. I’ve had Apple TV several times, never paid a cent.
Don’t currently have AMC, Max, or Starz, but got them all for $0 at different times by using Amazon no-rush credits.
Way more content than I could watch for a tiny fraction of the cost of cable, with shows on demand. Yeah, cord-cutting is still the way to go.
This makes no sense. No one was smug and strutting. We were trying to save money. It’s still cheaper to subscribe to a streaming service than pay monthly for cable. I’ve subscribed to multiple services for $100 a year each. But, not necessarily at the same time. Even if I paid $100 a year for 3 or 4 services, it would be cheaper than a year of cable. One month of cable can cost about $100 all on its own. So, no, no one is strutting today. But, we weren’t strutting to begin with. You go ahead and pay $100 a month for cable if you want to. Some people will buy this new bundle and some won’t. They’ll get what they want, just like you do out of cable. But, I guarantee you, they will not charge $100 a month for this new bundle. It will still be cheaper than traditional cable.
DirecTV = $140/mth
YouTube TV = $70
Easy math!
I think rotating services is the key. I had Peacock during the regular tv season but dropped it during the summer and trying out Starz for a couple of months at the trial 99 cent rate. I will drop it and go back to Peacock in another month.
I pay 134 dollars a month for internet and cable, and thats the top speeds with top tier of the channel package. If I only wanted their internet I’d pay 88 dollars a month, but if you factor in streaming services I’d need to watch my shows? It would be well over 160 a month. I have 3 DVRs includes and my provider actually allows you to go back 3 hours before if you forgot to record your show. As far as ads? I just wait anywhere from 8 to 14 minutes to start the show so I can fast forward them. I’m a 36 year old dude who still loves cable! I also my our OnDemand section too.
At this point they all should just re-create the old HULU model. Everybody gets an equal portion of the Hulu ownership, and it becomes an independent company again. Everybody wanted their own cake, but they realized that’s really expensive when you can’t make any money selling just your cake. (mixing my metaphors…) Comcast should just keep some of what they own and bring Paramount and Fox back in.
I do agree with this. I liked having Hulu and being able to watch multiple companies’ content in one place. I used to just have Hulu and Netflix. That was all I needed.
Since I already get Max at no cost through my CABLE company, why would I pay to get it plus two other services that I have no interest in?
Uhm..you wouldn’t. You clearly are not the target customer for this deal. So, you pretty much answered your own question.
lol, why did you even bother to spend the time writing this comment? As someone else stated, you’re clearly not the targeted customer. Those WITHOUT cable are.
More streamers will have to do this to succeed. People no longer want to buy multiple streamers.
And Netflix continues to thrive despite the studio attempts to kill it.
…And I have NO idea why trigger-happy NetFlix keeps chugging along like that??
I feel like the streaming services are essentially forcing a return to traditional television and cable but keeping the shorter episode orders and forcing us to spend more money. I already get Max free through my internet service provider and I’m paying for a premium Hulu/Disney+/ESPN bundle that I only use for Hulu. Doesn’t seem that consumers are continuing to benefit.
I feel very stressed out, reading this. I already pay too much for tv. The article says an attractive price, yet lists nothing. It doesn’t give a date of when this will happen. I have a difficult time, being retired and the two things I love to do are garden and watching TV. Both are costing a fortune..
You do not have to get the bundle. You can still keep just the service or services you want. They will not force you to get all three services. Nothing needs to change for you just because the new bundle is available.
This is great news if it’s attractively priced, but it needs to be implemented effectively. When I needed to update my Hulu/Disney bundle I couldn’t do it on the web site. I had to call in, cancel my existing subscription and start a new subscription. This is ridiculous for the customer and needs to be much easier. Fortunately, my history and watch lists weren’t affected.
We had to quit Disney a year ago when the cost doubled. We presently only watch ad free streaming because why not? that’s what we’re paying for and we’ve had decades of ad supported tv and it really sucks. There’s not break between shows and ads and you can’t successfully skip them because they’re a mix of 5-10-15-20-30-45-60 seconds. I miss the days when the FCC required a free environmental ad per hour too.
Anyway the price better be low or we’ll just not do that. We’re sick of ads.
Good price ad-free = we’ll be on-board immediately.
I don’t know… We have MAX and Disney+ ad free, monthly and annual respectively, so I have to figure out of if it’s cheaper and possible to combo it. Probably not since I don’t mind much not having Hulu.
I would LOVE to have access to this offer to bundle Hulu/Disney +/Max in Canada!
What about ESPN+? I currently have the Disney/ Hulu/ ESPN bundle. I won’t be giving up my sports to add David Zaslov’s least favorite streamer.
Hmmm… I need to compare to what I am currently paying… I have have all 3 and Max isn’t what it used to be since the Discovery merger.
My lament is really that streaming has cut out the home media business. Most shows never go to physical so you are at the whim of the digital vaults where the companies can remove anything at any time.
I couldn’t agree with you more about the death of home media.
This was supposed to be an article of Ric Hearst returning to GH. Looks like a bug in the website
I looked at subscribing on Max but was disappointed you don’t get 4K or Dolby Atmos in the bundle. For the decrease in price I’m a little tempted to forego those features, but sticking with the more expensive package for now, I’ll have to reassess in November when my annual plan expires.
Look everyone. – cable is back. Not going to sign up for this cable package
I choose to pay for about 70% of the popular streaming services. So I’m obviously not looking to pinch every penny. But when I ditched my cable TV provider and went to Hulu Live, I saved $150/month. I actually get more channels than I used to – and no doubt the cable company would have raised rates again since I left them.
What about an annual plan?
They are only offering the monthly option at this point.
I have Hulu, DIsney, and Max now, so I was interested in this bundle if I could save money. Then I realized I don’t plan to keep Max for long. I guess bundling helps keep customers from dumping individual streamers when they’v watched all they want. I’ll save more money by dropping Max in a month or so.
What happened ESPN+, which was part of my current subscription of Disney+, ESPN+ and Hulu?
This is great news if it’s attractively priced, but it needs to be implemented effectively.