Sky Showtime, Netflix’s rival shakes the foundations of streaming

Due to new Netflix conditions, a wave of controversy has risen with shared accounts, SkyShowtime arrives to set fire to the services to view streaming content.

With a bit of a delay compared to the original launch date in Spain (the platform was going to land at the end of 2022), we will be able to welcome the service on February 28, the date is official.

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SkyShowtime arrives with a very ambitious proposal, an aggressive offer for subscribers and more than 10,000 hours of initial content, but we will tell you about all that below.

Who’s on SkyShowtime?

A streaming content platform arrives with a new content proposal at a great price.

As with other services that are part of a large production company (HBO Max with Warner; Disney+ with its productions in addition to those of Marvel or Lucasfilm; etc.), SkyShowtime belongs to Comcast and Paramount.

That is one of the advantages of SkyShowtime over Netflix, since the latter are their own production company and in Showtime they have a lot of affiliated companies. Thus, within the catalog that we can enjoy, there are productions of:

Universal Pictures

Paramount Pictures

Nickelodeon

DreamWorks Animation

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Peacock

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Therefore, we can expect movies, documentaries and series from these production companies, but also the content available on platforms like Paramount+ (where the ‘Halo’ series was, for example).

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The Master Chief in ‘Halo’, the Paramount+ series

The SkyShowtime Originals that will obviously be exclusive

Here it is necessary to differentiate between the inherited catalog and the original contents. Basically it is what we are tired of seeing on other platforms, which have content produced before the birth of the platform and series that are produced specifically for it. A clear example is Disney+ with the ‘Star Wars’ movies, but series like ‘The Mandalorian’ that have been created only for Disney+.

Thus, from February 28 we can see series like ‘Dexter’, ‘Twin Peaks’ or ‘McGyver’, as well as the aforementioned ‘Halo’ or ‘Star Trek’, but also movies like ‘Star Trek’, ‘Mission Impossible’, ‘Fast&Furious’ or ‘Jurassic Park’.

Showtime’s lifetime offer 50% forever

And one of the points where SkyShowtime is positioned as one of Netflix’s greatest rivals is price. In fact, it surely sounds to you that Netflix has introduced a new policy on shared accounts so that whoever does not live in your core will have to pay 5.99 euros for an extra account, something that has caused many users to look for how to sign out. get off Netflix.

Well, the price of SkyShowtime will be 5.99 euros per month, but imitating the launch offer of HBO Max, the service will arrive with a discount of 50% for life. That is, if you subscribe from the beginning (we still do not know how much margin we will have), the price will be 2.99 euros per month.

If at some point the platform increases the base price to 6.99 euros, those initial users will have to pay 3.49 euros. All this, of course, as long as the user does not unsubscribe, since if we delete ourselves and then want to watch a series, we will have to pay the standard price at each moment.

In the end, SkyShowtime seemed like the ugly duckling of subscription platforms. It reaches a market in which there are already many players with very good productions, both original and inherited from their respective platforms, but the right conditions have been given for the platform to find its place in countries like Spain.