{"id":9202,"date":"2020-05-04T20:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2540120"},"modified":"2020-05-04T20:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T20:45:00","slug":"hbo-max-pre-order-promo-drops-price-to-12-per-month-for-the-first-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/04\/hbo-max-pre-order-promo-drops-price-to-12-per-month-for-the-first-year-2\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO Max pre-order promo drops price to $12 per month for the first year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>You&#8217;ll have to sign up directly if you qualify, though.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"o-article_block \">\n<div class=\"grid@tl+ mt-n40\">\n<div class=\"grid@tl+__cell col-8-of-12@tl+ pt-40\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"stretch-img  hide@m-\" src=\"https:\/\/o.aolcdn.com\/images\/dims?thumbnail=640%2C&amp;quality=80&amp;image_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fs.yimg.com%2Fos%2Fcreatr-images%2F2020-05%2F8e249160-8c8d-11ea-97fd-283c8eab7b58&amp;client=amp-blogside-v2&amp;signature=85f724bf2fd2d95fd154c57810e213dca9ab7f94\" alt=\"BURBANK, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 29: John Stankey, President &amp; Chief Operating Officer of AT&amp;T and Chief Executive Officer of WarnerMedia, speaks onstage at HBO Max WarnerMedia Investor Day Presentation at Warner Bros. Studios on October 29, 2019 in Burbank, California. (Photo by Presley Ann\/Getty Images for WarnerMedia)\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"engadget-post-contents\" class=\"o-article_block pb-15 pb-5@m- o-subtle_divider\" data-ylk=\"sec:postcontents;slk:HBO%20Max%20pre-order%20promo%20drops%20price%20to%20%2412%20per%20month%20for%20the%20first%20year;elm:link;itc:0;\">\n<div class=\"grid@tl+\">\n<div class=\"grid@tl+__cell col-8-of-12@tl+\">\n<div class=\"article-text c-gray-1\">\n<p>HBO Max is taking a page out of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2019-08-28-disney-plus-discount-three-year-commitment.html\" data-rapid_p=\"1\" data-v9y=\"1\">Disney+ playbook<\/a>&nbsp;by offering sizeable discounts to early adopters. The streaming service is running a pre-order&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2020\/digital\/news\/hbo-max-pricing-promo-versus-netflix-1234596280\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">promotion<\/a>&nbsp;that drops the price from $15 per month to $12 for the first year if you&rsquo;re either a new subscriber or a &ldquo;returning eligible&rdquo; HBO Now customer. That&rsquo;s less than Netflix&rsquo;s standard HD plan,&nbsp;<em>Variety<\/em>&nbsp;said. However, there is a catch: you can&rsquo;t just sign up wherever you intend to get service.<\/p>\n<p>The discount is only available if you sign up through the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hbomax.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HBO Max website<\/a>&nbsp;or otherwise go directly through WarnerMedia. You can&rsquo;t just go through other distributors (who already take a cut of WarnerMedia&rsquo;s revenue). That shouldn&rsquo;t be a problem for most people, but it&rsquo;s worth noting if you were thinking of signing up through&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/hbo-max-charter-deal-223819906.html\" data-rapid_p=\"4\" data-v9y=\"1\">a partner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"o-article_block pb-15 pb-5@m- mt-n35 mt-n25@m mt-n15@s\">\n<div class=\"grid@tl+\">\n<div class=\"full-width@tp- grid@tl+__cell col-8-of-12@tl+\">\n<div class=\"article-text c-gray-1 no-review\">\n<p>It&rsquo;s not surprising that HBO Max would tempt early adopters through a deal. This is WarnerMedia&rsquo;s (and really, AT&amp;T&rsquo;s) big play at a stand-alone streaming service that can compete with the likes of Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. Early commitments could both boost its initial numbers and help build buzz that helps the service compete in the long run.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n<div><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2020\/digital\/news\/hbo-max-pricing-promo-versus-netflix-1234596280\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/variety.com\/2020\/digital\/news\/hbo-max-pricing-promo-versus-netflix-1234596280\/<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/>JON<\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/wire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/global-regions\/united-states\/\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p>JON<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&rsquo;ll have to sign up directly if you qualify, though. &nbsp; HBO Max is taking a page out of the&nbsp;Disney+ playbook&nbsp;by offering sizeable discounts to early adopters. The streaming service is running a pre-order&nbsp;promotion&nbsp;that drops the price from $15 per month to $12 for the first year if you&rsquo;re either a new subscriber or a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/05\/04\/hbo-max-pre-order-promo-drops-price-to-12-per-month-for-the-first-year\/\">Continue reading <span>HBO Max pre-order promo drops price to $12 per month for the first year<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/04\/hbo-max-pre-order-promo-drops-price-to-12-per-month-for-the-first-year-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-united-states","category-wire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>HBO Max pre-order promo drops price to $12 per month for the first year - Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/04\/hbo-max-pre-order-promo-drops-price-to-12-per-month-for-the-first-year-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"HBO Max pre-order promo drops price to $12 per month for the first year - Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"You&rsquo;ll have to sign up directly if you qualify, though. &nbsp; HBO Max is taking a page out of the&nbsp;Disney+ playbook&nbsp;by offering sizeable discounts to early adopters. 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