Hulu Drops Price to $1 per Month for Limited Time

variety.com:

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorDisney’s Hulu hopes to usher in a raft of subscribers with a new special deal — offering its ad-supported streaming plan for just $1 per month for three months.Starting Friday, new and eligible returning subscribers can sign up for the Hulu with ads package for $1/month for three months.

That’s an 86% discount off the regular monthly $6.99/month price for the U.S.-only service. The offer is set to run through 11:59 p.m.

PT on May 27 at this link.Ostensibly, Hulu’s new deal is timed for National Streaming Day, the fake May 20 holiday that Roku created to mark the introduction of its first streaming player in 2008.

Hulu has regularly staged special deals as part of its subscriber-acquisition strategy, most recently reprising its Black Friday offer of 99 cents/month for one year in November.