Get pumped for July. Ready to see Sweet Tooth in Twisted Metal? How about bidding farewell to Henry Cavill in The Witcher and welcoming Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War back to TV? Peacock, Netflix and Hulu may have you willing to pay whatever it takes — like extra fees — to keep your streaming services flowing this month.
I’ll note that there’s a lot of anime arriving this summer along with the return of popular hits like Good Omens, Foundation and new films like They Cloned Tyrone. But every title on every platform may not be enough to justify paying all that money.
Each month you may want to weigh whether to cancel a streaming service because of the content that’s currently available and how much you’re paying for each service. I want to offer one strategy: Churn like butter.
What does that mean? Subscribe, cancel, roll with a different platform, then resubscribe. Rotating services as needed helps save money when Netflix, Disney Plus, Max and others don’t have the content you want to watch at a given time. Just remember to shut off autorenewal for your monthly subscriptions. Churning may not be an option if you’re sharing your accounts with people outside your household, of course. But if you can work out an arrangement with your streaming partners, go for it.
Here are my recommendations for which streamers to keep or cancel for July, based on new shows and movies (I didn’t consider sports and live TV streaming services) arriving on each platform.
Your tastes may be different, but if nothing else, I urge you to at least consider the concept of rotating for savings. It’s easier than you might think.
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July Streaming Service Rotation
