Editor's Note: This story comes from CableTV.com.
Looking to give the gift of streaming TV to your favorite people this holiday season? Aw, you shouldn’t have — really, we’re good on subscriptions at CableTV.com.
If you’re thinking of a special somebody else, we’ve compiled a guide to the best streaming services to give as holiday gifts to family, friends, co-workers — or last-minute randos who got you something and made you feel guilty.
1. Netflix gift cards
Price: $7.99-$24.99/month
Gift card details: $15-$200 increments
Netflix gift cards are available in physical stores like Target, Kroger, and Walmart, as well as online through Amazon and Best Buy.
Purchase in any amount from $15.00-$200.00, and that balance can be applied to current or new Netflix subscriptions, which run $7.99-$24.99 a month.
2. Hulu gift cards
Price: $11.99-$18.99/month
Gift card details: $25, $50, or $100 increments
Like Netflix, Hulu gift cards can be purchased through Target, Best Buy, Amazon, and most IRL and online retailers.
Current customers can apply the gifted dollar amount to their account, but not if they’re subscribed through third parties like Spotify, iTunes, or Verizon.
3. Amazon Prime Video gift subscriptions
Price: $8.99-$17.98/month
Gift sub details: Amazon gift card minimum $5.00
We don’t love the lack of official messaging around this topic, but it is no longer possible to gift someone else an Amazon Prime membership. The “Amazon Prime Gifting” heading on the site’s FAQ is a dead link. Get it together, Bezos!
You’ll have to work around this issue by buying them a regular ol’ Amazon gift card, and telling the recipient they can use it for Prime.
4. Disney+ gift subscriptions
Price: $11.99-$18.99/month
Gift sub details: $25-$200 increments
Previously, Disney+ allowed only one-year gift subscriptions ($139.99) to new customers or returning to the service. Now, you can buy gift cards in any amount from $25.00-$200.00.
5. HBO Max gift subscriptions
Price: $10.99-$22.99/month
Gift sub details: Subscribe directly or use prepaid cash card
Do these companies not want your holiday bucks? There’s no official HBO Max “gift card” in either physical or digital form, so if you want to give someone a month of the service, you can either set up an account under their name via the link below or (the easier route) just slip them some cash or credit.
6. Peacock gift cards
Price: $10.99-$16.99/month
Gift card details: $25, $50, $100, or $150
This is more like it: Peacock finally got wise and began offering gift cards, so you can give your loved ones all the Office episodes they could ever want.
Gift cards can be purchased through Peacock’s website in $25, $50, $100, or $150 amounts.
7. Paramount+ gift cards
Price: $7.99-$12.99/month
Gift sub details: $25, $50, or $100 increments
Paramount+ gift cards come in $25, $50, or $100 dollar amounts that can be applied toward a new or current subscription. Unfortunately, gift credit can’t be applied to subscriptions through third parties like Amazon Prime Video. Oh, and those old CBS All Access gift cards also still work.
8. Apple TV+ gift subscriptions
Price: $12.99/month
Gift sub details: $15, $25, $50, or $100 increments
Apple gift cards are everywhere in the retail wild, and all you need to do to give someone a month or two of an Apple TV+ gift subscription is grab one at a store or online.
You could also gift them an Apple product, which includes three months of Apple TV+ service free.
9. YouTube TV gift subscriptions
Price: $82.99/month
Gift sub details: Google Play card ($10-$200)
There’s no YouTube TV gift card, but there is the all-encompassing and widely available Google Play gift card, which means you could easily give someone the present of CableTV.com’s favorite live TV streaming service. A $200 card or code could cover almost three months of YTTV.
10. Sling TV gift cards
Price: $19.99-$60.99/month
Gift sub details: $35-$120 increments
Sling TV gift cards are everywhere in stores and online, ranging in credit amounts from $35 to $120 — like its live TV service, Sling TV makes it simple.
Gift credit is good for new and current subscribers, the latter of which could splurge on some of Sling TV’s multiple add-ons.
11. Acorn TV gift subscriptions
Price: $79.99/year
Gift sub details: Choose one- to three-year gift sub (no monthly option)
An Acorn TV gift subscription of $79.99 could give the Anglophile in your life a full year of access to acclaimed British dramas, mysteries, and comedies, all commercial-free. If you want your loved one to be really chuffed, you can get up to three years at this price.
12. Shudder gift subscriptions
Price: $8.99/month
Gift sub details: Subscribe directly or use prepaid cash card
We really, really, really wish Shudder offered gift subscriptions — but nope. Just like with some of the other streaming services above, you can set up an account for the horror-movie sickos in your life and pay for it yourself or gift ‘em a gift card as a, you know, gift.
13. Screambox gift subscriptions
Price: $6.99/month
Gift sub details: Subscribe directly or use prepaid cash card
Screambox doesn’t sell gift cards or gift subscriptions, either, so decide if you wanna create an account for your bloodthirsty friend, family member, co-worker, or creepy neighbor. Then pay for it directly or slide them a prepaid cash card (we recommend the latter for your neighbor).
14. Arrow Player gift subscriptions
We’ll say it again: Arrow Player is a must-have streaming service for cult film fans.
Click here to go the Arrow Player checkout page, then click “START FREE TRIAL.”
This takes you to the Arrow Player checkout page, where you’ll see an option to “Gift this subscription” for anywhere from one to 12 months.
15. Full Moon Features gift subscriptions
Price: $6.99/month
Gift sub details: 1-12 month increments
To gift one to 12 months of access to Full Moon Features’ streaming library of schlocky horror, sci-fi, action and comedy flicks: Click here, then, on the checkout page, choose “Gift this subscription” and how many months you’d like to buy for your weirdo friend.
Note: One-year Full Moon Features subscriptions include your choice of the following free gifts, in case you happen to really like this particular weirdo.
Full Moon Features free gifts (with one-year subscription):
- FULL MOON FEATURES: THE LEGACY COLLECTION! (Region Free BluRay)
- Wizard Video 6 BluRay Eurocine Collection Big Box Set
- Evil Bong “Eebee Stash Box”
- Puppet Master 12 Disc Box Set
16. Night Flight Plus gift subscriptions
Price: $5.99/month
Gift sub details: One-year gift subs only
Night Flight Plus sells only one-year gift subscriptions ($59.99). Click here to purchase an annual sub. Alternatively, you can pay directly for an account that you set up or do the prepaid cash card thing.
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