Prime Day Streaming Deals Slash Apple TV Before Deadline

At 3 pm ET Friday, June 26, Wired updated its Prime Day streaming deals list and confirmed the offers were still live for the final day, turning Prime Day streaming deals into one of the cleaner ways to reset a bloated subscription stack before renewal prices return.

The hook is simple: Prime Day isn’t only about discounted hardware. It’s also about loading cheap services onto the TVs, tablets, and streaming sticks people already bought. The best offers in Wired’s roundup cluster around short trials, annual discounts, and Prime-linked signups.

“Today's the final day of Prime Day, so it's your last chance to get these streaming deals.”

That deadline matters. These discounts only work if users sign up through an existing Amazon Prime account, according to Wired. After the promotional window, most services revert to regular pricing.

For broader Prime Day context, XOOMAR has also tracked the hardware side of the sale, including Prime Day Apple Deals Slash iPads to $299 in 4-Day Rush and $198 Sony WH-1000XM5 Hijacks Prime Day Headphone Deals. The streaming offers complete the loop: buy the screen, then cut the cost of what plays on it.

June 26 deadline turns Prime Day streaming deals into a renewal-price test

The cleanest way to read these deals is by duration. Most are $1 a month for two months, then regular price. A few are annual commitments. That split matters more than the headline discount.

XOOMAR analysis: The highest percentage discount isn’t automatically the best deal. A two-month trial is valuable only if you already know what you’ll watch before the renewal date hits.

Apple TV at half off makes a short prestige-TV sprint cheaper

Apple TV is the headline Prime Day streaming deal because the discount is easy to understand: $6 a month for two months, down from $13 a month, then regular price.

Wired points to Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed and Pluribus as shows worth catching during the promo window. Its read is blunt: Apple TV releases can be slow, which makes a discounted two-month burst more sensible than a long idle subscription.

The catch is timing. Two months is enough for a focused catch-up, not a passive subscription you forget about.

Prime-linked signups put Amazon at the center of the deal

These offers are not open-ended coupons floating around the web. Wired says users need to sign up through their existing Amazon Prime account to access the deals.

That makes Prime Day streaming deals feel less like standalone service discounts and more like Amazon-driven channel shopping. The user advantage is concentration: the decision starts in one account. The risk is also concentration: cheap trials can stack quickly.

Set a reminder before the renewal date. A $1 trial loses its charm when five services flip back to full monthly pricing at once.

Paramount Plus is built for a two-month franchise binge

Paramount Plus is listed at $1 a month for two months, compared with a $14 a month regular price, then regular pricing resumes.

Wired frames the draw around South Park and “Tyler Sheridan Texas melodrama,” which makes the value case clear enough. This is a short-window binge offer, not a hard argument for keeping the service indefinitely.

The right buyer already has a target list. If you’re just subscribing because it’s cheap, the discount is doing the thinking for you.

Peacock appears in the sale frame, but the verified list lacks the deal details

Wired names Peacock in its opening list of major streamers offering Prime Day discounts, but the supplied verified deal list does not include a Peacock section with price, tier, or renewal terms.

That matters for readers comparing services. Without the exact Peacock offer, the smart move is to check the Prime signup page directly before treating it as equivalent to the clearly listed $1 trials.

XOOMAR analysis: In a roundup like this, missing tier details are not a small gap. Ad tier, promo duration, and renewal price are the deal.

HBO Max is the annual-plan outlier in a field of short trials

HBO Max stands apart because Wired lists an annual ad-free offer: $133 for the first year, versus a $184 a year regular price.

That makes it less of a sampler and more of a commitment. Wired cites Game of Thrones spinoffs, The White Lotus, The Last of Us, and The Wire as reasons the annual plan may make sense.

The buying logic is simple. If HBO Max is already a service you cycle back to often, the annual discount has a stronger case than another two-month trial.

MGM Plus and AMC+ are cheap add-ons, not core subscriptions

MGM Plus is down to $1 a month for two months, from $11 a month, then regular price. Wired calls it a good trial candidate, pointing to films like Fargo and series including From and The Institute.

AMC+ also lands at $1 a month for two months, with regular pricing cited as $8 a month for basic and $11 a month for premium. Wired says AMC+ includes access to Sundance films and six live TV channels, and notes both premium and basic plans are available at the promo price.

These are the classic temporary-library boosts. Pay little, watch deliberately, reassess before the full rate returns.

Crunchyroll is the targeted annual deal for anime viewers

Crunchyroll is not priced like the $1 trial services. Wired lists the Fan subscription at $60 a year, down from $100 a year, and Mega Fan at $84 a year, down from $140 a year.

That structure makes sense for a specialized service. Wired says the Mega Fan plan includes merch discounts and games, which is a different value pitch from a casual two-month trial.

For anime households, the annual discount may beat hopping in and out. For everyone else, it’s too specific to buy just because Prime Day made it cheaper.

BritBox, PBS Masterpiece, PBS Kids, and Hallmark Plus serve the binge niches

The smaller services cluster around the same playbook: $1 a month for two months, then regular price.

BritBox drops from $14 a month. PBS Masterpiece drops from $7 a month. PBS Kids drops from $5 a month. Hallmark Plus drops from $7 a month.

Wired ties PBS Masterpiece to Downton Abbey, BBC's Sherlock, and documentaries about Henry IX and the Boleyn family. PBS Kids includes Arthur, Reading Rainbow, and Daniel Tiger. Hallmark Plus is exactly what buyers expect: comfort viewing with a very clear audience.

The warning is overlap. Don’t subscribe to every niche service because each one is cheap. Pick the one with the shows you’ll actually finish.

The bigger picture: cheap trials now need cancellation dates

Prime Day streaming deals show how subscription shopping has shifted. Hardware deals still dominate the event, but the services layered on top now compete just as aggressively for attention.

The practical move is restraint.

Before subscribing, check:

• Promo length: Most deals here run for two months.
• Renewal price: Wired repeatedly notes that regular pricing resumes afterward.
• Signup path: These offers require an existing Amazon Prime account.
• Viewing plan: Subscribe only if you know what you’re watching first.
• Calendar date: Set a reminder before the promo expires.

The strongest Prime Day streaming deal isn’t the flashiest discount. It’s the one matched to a specific two-month watch list, or in HBO Max and Crunchyroll’s case, a service you already know you’ll use for the year.

Key Takeaways

• Prime Day streaming deals can cut costs before services return to regular pricing.
• Most short-term offers work best for binge watching rather than long-term savings.
• The deals require signup through an existing Amazon Prime account.

Originally published on XOOMAR. For more news and analysis, visit XOOMAR.