In a barely stunning and considerably quiet shift, YouTube and YouTube TV are providing up a free seven-day trial of NFL Sunday Ticket. That’s, you may watch any and all video games (barring native blackouts) on a given Sunday, after which cancel if you would like. Or maintain NFL Sunday Ticket and watch all of the video games on all of the Sundays.
The small print had been unceremoniously dropped on a YouTube/YouTube TV assist web page. The free trials needs to be obtainable now, however the web page does word that “should you don’t see the 7-day trial at checkout, strive once more quickly.”
In any other case, it’s a comparatively customary free trial scheme. It’s obtainable each for NFL Sunday Ticket by itself, or should you bundle it with NFL RedZone, which is the separate channel that exhibits scoring performs as they’re about to occur.
There’s a little little bit of superb print, although. Along with solely being obtainable with a subscription via YouTube or YouTube TV, it’s additionally excludes offers via cellular carriers (Verizon is freely giving NFL Sunday Ticket without spending a dime) or different suppliers. The free trial additionally doesn’t work with the NFL Sunday Ticket month-to-month fee plans, with pupil plans, or for anybody who’s already signed up for NFL Sunday Ticket.
It’s all a part of a reasonably seismic change for NFL Sunday Ticket, which was once shackled to DirecTV’s satellite tv for pc service, however made the leap in 2023 to YouTube and YouTube TV (it’s nonetheless on DirecTV in bars and eating places and the like). Along with particular person video games on Sundays (thus the title), you’ll additionally get reside chats (which definitely gained’t turn out to be a flaming mess), key performs, spotlight movies, and extra.
On YouTube TV, NFL Sunday Ticket prices $349 for the season or $389 should you add NFL RedZone. Add $100 a season to every if you wish to watch by way of YouTube Primetime Channels (although you may nonetheless get $50 off throughout the board via September 19).
To enroll on YouTube TV and get the NFL Sunday Ticket free trial, head into your account settings and subscribe. To get the free trial by way of YouTube Primetime Channels, head to the NFL YouTube channel and join there.
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