Best streaming deals: You can still get Starz for $3 a month

There aren't many streaming deals this week, but this Starz one is worth a closer look.
By Leah Stodart and Bethany Allard  on 
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UPDATE: Feb. 22, 2024, 5:00 a.m. EST This post has been updated with the best streaming deals and service bundles, including an extended free trial of Paramount+ with Showtime.

Best streaming deals this week:

Best Netflix deal
One year of Netflix
Free for Verizon customers who sign up for a +play annual subscription (save $185)
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Best deal for students
Hulu monthly subscription
$1.99 per month (eligible college students save $6 per month)
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Best travel and streaming deal
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Best Starz deal
Starz three-month subscription
$3 per month (save $7 per month)
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Streaming services have become a modern cultural staple: we build them into our monthly bills alongside rent and electricity. However, there are always loopholes to get out of paying full price for the top apps. If you've had your eye on a particular streaming service, see if this week's best streaming deals are the incentive you've been waiting for.

Our top pick

Why we like it

Starz deals come and go regularly, so it's always a treat when you see one as good as this pop back up. If you sign up now, you can lock in three months of the streaming service for just $3 a month, compared to the usual $10. That saves you a total of $21, and gives you access to shows and movies like Blindspotting, The Black Phone, and Party Down. This is the second week we've seen this deal live, and we don't expect it to stick around forever, so if you want to lock in this price, we recommend doing it sooner rather than later.

Best Netflix deal

Why we like it

Netflix will officially be axing their cheapest ad-free subscription plan (aka their most affordable plan) in the U.K. and Canada starting in the second quarter of this year. For now, there are no details on if or when this will affect U.S. users, but don't be surprised if the plan is phased out everywhere.

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So how do you get around what is essentially a price raise? Go for the deals. Though Netflix's are rare, if you're a Verizon customer, you're in luck. Through Verizon's +play streaming portal, when you buy one valid seasonal or annual subscription, you get Netflix Premium for a year for free. That's a year of Netflix's highest plan, which usually clocks in at $22.99 per month. You can also bundle Netflix Premium and Starz for $25.99 per month, saving you $6.99 per month (or $83.88 annually).

More streaming deals and bundles

Amazon Prime Video

  • Try it with a 30-day free trial

AMC+

  • No current standalone deals, but try it with a seven-day free trial

Apple TV+

Curiosity Stream

  • No current standalone deals

DirecTV Stream

  • Get three free months of Max, Paramount+ with Showtime, Starz, MGM+, and Cinemax with purchase of an Entertainment, Choice, or Ultimate package (save $161.97)

Disney+

discovery+

  • No current standalone deals, but try it for free with a seven-day trial

FuboTV

  • Try it with a seven-day free trial

  • New subscribers get 30 days free of FuboTV Pro if you're a My Best Buy Plus or Total member (save $74.99)

Max

Hulu

MGM+

Netflix

  • Verizon customers can get a year of Netflix for free when they purchase select annual subscriptions through +play

  • Verizon customers with myPlan can add a Netflix and Max bundle (with ads) for $10 per month (save $6.99 per month)

  • T-Mobile customers with Go5G and Go5G Plus plans can save between $9.99 and $15.49/month on Netflix Basic or Standard while you maintain at least two qualifying lines

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Paramount+ with Showtime

  • Select MyPanera members can get a free three-month Walmart+ subscription and select Verizon MyPlan members can save $2.95/month on a Walmart+ subscription (Walmart+ unlocks Paramount+ Essential)

  • AARP members get a 10% discount on monthly and annual Paramount+ Essential and Paramount+ with SHOWTIME plans

  • Students get a Paramount+ Essential plan for $4.50 per month (save $1.49 per month)

Peacock

Philo

  • No current standalone deals, but try it with a seven-day free trial

Sling TV

  • Get 50% off your first month of Sling Orange, Sling Blue, or Sling Orange & Blue

Starz

Vudu

  • No current standalone deals.

YouTube TV

  • New users can lock in their first three months of the YouTube TV Base Plan for just $62.99 instead of $72.99 (save $30)

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Leah Stodart
Leah Stodart
Senior Shopping Reporter

Leah Stodart is a Philadelphia-based Senior Shopping Reporter at Mashable where she covers essential home tech like vacuums and TVs as well as sustainable swaps and travel. Her ever-growing experience in these categories comes in clutch when making recommendations on how to spend your money during shopping holidays like Black Friday, which Leah has been covering for Mashable since 2017.

The robot vacuum beat in particular has cemented itself as Leah's main ~thing~ across the past few years. Since 2019, her expertise has been perpetually bolstered by the meticulous eye she keeps on robot vacuum deals and new releases, but more importantly, her hands-on experience with more than 25 robot vacuums tested in her own home. (This number has probably gone up by the time you're reading this.) That at-home testing is standardized through Mashable's robot testing guide — a granular scoring rubric for assessing all aspects of owning and using a robot vacuum on the daily — that Leah created herself.

Leah graduated from Penn State University in 2016 with dual degrees in Sociology and Media Studies. When she's not writing about shopping (or shopping online for herself), she's almost definitely watching a horror movie, "RuPaul's Drag Race," or "The Office." You can follow her on X at @notleah or email her at [email protected].

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Bethany Allard
Shopping Reporter

Bethany Allard is a Los Angeles-based shopping reporter at Mashable covering beauty tech, dating, sex and relationships, and headphones. That basically means she puts her hair through a lot, scrolls through a lot of dating apps, and rotates through a lot of different headphones. In addition to testing out and rounding up the best products, she also covers deals for Mashable, paying an especially obsessive amount of attention to Apple deals and prices. That knowledge comes in handy when she's covering shopping holidays like Prime Day and Black Friday, which she's now done for three years at Mashable.

She graduated from New York University with a B.A. in Journalism and English Literature. You can follow her on X @betallard and reach her by email at [email protected]. In her free time, you'll find her playing her Switch, hanging with her cat Mila, or cooking something new in her kitchen.

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