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Verizon announced on Monday that later this week, it will be adding a new bundle to its service. Customers can bundle Netflix and Max starting on December 7 for just $10 per month.
This bundle will include the ad-supported tiers of each service, which are $6.99 and $9.99, respectively. Giving customers a savings of around $7 per month.
Unfortunately, this bundle is only available to Verizon customers, and you also need to be on the carrier’s new myPlan. Verizon announced myPlan in May of this year, which stripped out a lot of perks included in their older plans. Instead, myPlan lowers pricing, streamlining its offerings, and lets customers add the perks they want. And one of those perks is now the ability to add Netflix and Max for only $10 per month.
Verizon already offers a slew of different perks that you can add to your plan for only $10 per month. This includes the Disney Bundle (ad-free Disney, ad-supported Hulu, and ESPN+), 100GB of Mobile Hotspot, Apple One, Apple Music Family, Walmart Plus, and a few other options. This makes myPlan a lot more attractive than their older plans that offered Apple Music and the Disney Bundle for everyone at a higher price.
Apple TV Plus and Paramount Plus could also introduce their own bundle
Last week, there was a report that Apple and Paramount could be looking to bundle their own services together as well. This one is a bit odd since these are separate companies. Paramount has already bundled Paramount Plus and SHOWTIME together, but both are owned by Paramount. An Apple TV Plus bundle would be really great to have, but apparently, the two companies are still in “preliminary discussions” to offer a bundle. So, pricing has not been announced yet.
With Apple TV Plus having just increased to $9.99 per month, it really sounds like an ad-supported tier is coming soon. And if that gets bundled with Paramount Plus (with ads) for around $10 per month, that would be a really great deal, and it would get both services more customers.
Could we see more of these bundles between companies that like each other? Perhaps. Streaming really took off in 2020 and 2021 when everyone was stuck at home and needed stuff to watch. However, now that everyone has gone back to work, and both the SAG-AFTRA Strike and the Writers Guide of America Strike are over, prices are increasing quite a bit across all streaming services. Resulting in many people canceling their service. Bundles could help here, but it remains to be seen if it would help the bottom line for these services.