By Rex Crum | [email protected] | PUBLISHED: April 11, 2018 at 11:52 am | UPDATED: April 11, 2018 at 11:54 am It may not be a buy-one-get-one-free deal, but an offering from Spotify and Hulu comes pretty close. will be able to bundle it with Hulu’s limited-commercial TV plan for $12.99 a month. The deal is similar to an offering Spotify made to students beginning last fall. Currently, Spotify Premium costs subscribers $9.99 a month, while Hulu’s limited-commercial plan costs $7.99 a month. So, in other words, if you subscribe to Spotify Premium, you can add Hulu to the mix for $3 a month and end up paying less than you would by subscribing to both services separately. Spotify is also looking to sweeten the deal by giving subscribers Hulu for 99 cents a month for the first three months of their subscriptions before raising the price. Get tech news in your inbox weekday mornings. Sign up for the free Good Morning Silicon Valley newsletter. The deal will … [Read more...] about Pay less, get more: Spotify to bundle Premium service with Hulu
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Spotify and Hulu want to bundle beautiful music and TV for cord-cutters
Here’s a new kind of bundled TV service that doesn’t involve your cable company: If you subscribe to Spotify Premium, now you can add Hulu for a total of $13 per month, saving $5 per month off the price of both. That’s after a three-month promo period for current Spotify subscribers in which Hulu is just a dollar per month extra. Some restrictions apply. The bundle is only available with Hulu’s ad-supported plan–not the ad-free version that costs $4 per month extra–and you can’t get the discount if you’ve tacked on extra Hulu services such as Showtime or live TV service. Still, it’s an interesting alternative to conventional bundling of TV with internet or phone service. And as TechCrunch notes, it gives Spotify an answer to Amazon (which discounts its Music Unlimited plan for Prime subscribers) and Apple (which could bundle original television with Apple Music). Maybe Pandora chief Roger Lynch should put in a call to his old pals … [Read more...] about Spotify and Hulu want to bundle beautiful music and TV for cord-cutters
You can now get Hulu and Spotify Premium combined for $12.99 per month
source Hulu Hulu and Spotify are offering a bundle for $12.99 a month. The plan will put your Spotify Premium and Hulu accounts on one bill. For the first three months, Hulu will also only charge existing Spotify Premium users $0.99 a month for the addition. The package follows the success of a Spotify and Hulu bundle that became available to students in fall 2017. Hulu and Spotify are now offering their services as a bundle, which combines Spotify Premium and Hulu’s with-ads version for $12.99 per month. The new plan saves subscribers $4.99 a month: Hulu’s “Limited Commercials” plan is $7.99 per month, and Spotify Premium is $9.99 per month. So instead of paying $17.98, you pay $12.99. This new subscription also puts both on the same bill. How can you get this deal? Existing Spotify Premium subscribers can upgrade their plan to an option named … [Read more...] about You can now get Hulu and Spotify Premium combined for $12.99 per month
Netflix’s subscribers are much more loyal than Hulu and Amazon Prime’s
Netflix has by far the most loyal subscribers of its competitors, according to new research by Parks Associates. Analysts found that Netflix subscribers were much less likely to cancel than those of Hulu or Amazon Prime Video. Netflix has now captured 52% of US broadband households, and in the last year, only 9% of its subscriber base has canceled, Parks Associates found. Contrast this with Hulu (14% of US broadband households), which saw a full half of its current subscriber base cancel in the last year. That’s a lot of turnover for a service that is still growing. Why does Hulu have such high churn? One reason could be that people are loyal to content, Michael Callahan, who used to be in charge of customer service at Hulu, told Business Insider in December. Callahan says the surest way to keep viewers is to create blockbuster original shows — the kind they just can’t live without. This is one reason Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu are all pouring money into originals. … [Read more...] about Netflix’s subscribers are much more loyal than Hulu and Amazon Prime’s
Hulu is facing pressure to pull its advertising with Laura Ingraham, the Fox News host who mocked a Parkland shooting survivor
caption Laura Ingraham source Alex Wong/Getty Images Streaming service Hulu is among the companies facing pressure to pull advertising with Fox News host Laura Ingraham. Ingraham is facing backlash for mocking Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg on Twitter. Companies are facing increased pressure to drop their advertising with Laura Ingraham, a Fox News host who recently received backlash for mocking a Parkland shooting survivor. Hulu is among the companies the survivor, student David Hogg, has called out on Twitter to pull their advertising with Ingraham. Many on Twitter have vowed to boycott Hulu and other companies if they don’t sever ties with Ingraham. Hulu did not immediately return a request for comment from Business Insider. Actor and comedian Patton Oswalt joined in on Thursday, alluding that he would drop the service. “Do the right thing here,” he said. “Guardians of the Galaxy” … [Read more...] about Hulu is facing pressure to pull its advertising with Laura Ingraham, the Fox News host who mocked a Parkland shooting survivor