With the addition of Showtime, students will be able to watch series like “Shameless,” “Who Is America?,” “The Chi,” “Billions,” “Ray Donovan,” “Smilf,” “The Affair,” Homeland,” “Twin Peaks,” the upcoming Jim Carrey comedy “Kidding,” and upcoming “Escape at Dannemora,” among others, plus movies, documentaries, sports and comedy specials. That’s up from the 60 million paying subscribers it had when the student bundle was first announced, when it was then twice as big as Apple Music. Today, it has 83 million paying subscribers out of 180 million monthly users.

Spotify has added subscribers since those launches, but it’s unclear how many were from bundles. Spotify had also expanded this same bundle to all customers in April, at $12.99 per month for both, instead of $7.99 per month for Hulu and $9.99 per month for Spotify, when sold separately. The company, however, declined to share the number of students who had taken advantage of the bundle discount so far.

“We’ve been really pleased about the uptake of the original Hulu bundle, so are happy to be expanding the offering,” a spokesperson told TechCrunch. It wanted to reach them with better pricing, it says. – and clearly, the streaming services are concerned about its video plans.Īccording to Spotify, the reasoning behind a bundle has to do with the fact that college students are streaming entertainment more than any other age group. Because of Apple’s built-in advantage that comes with the iPhone, Apple Music has already outpaced Spotify in the U.S. The deal had arrived just as Spotify’s own efforts into original video were failing, and its head of video Tom Calderone was departing amid a shift in content strategy.įor both Spotify and Hulu, a bundle of music and video allows them to steel themselves against the looming threat from Apple, and its expected launch of its own streaming video service, which itself could be bundled with an Apple Music subscription. When Spotify teamed up with Hulu back in September 2017, it was the first time it had ever partnered with a streaming video service on a bundle deal. Students will need to be attending a Title IV accredited institution in the U.S.

The new bundle consists of Spotify Premium for Students, Hulu with Limited Commercials, and Showtime. Now those existing subscribers as well as new ones will be able to stream from all three services when they sign up. The new deal is an expansion of the existing Hulu and Spotify bundle for students, which launched around a year ago at the same price. Spotify today is announcing a new way for students to access its Premium service, along with Hulu and Showtime, for a discounted price of $4.99 per month for all three.

Hulu spotify student login