All the streamers you can gift for the 2025 holidays
All the streamers you can gift for the 2025 holidays
See which streamers offer gift cards, and which you can give directly to friends and relatives for the holidays!
What do you get for that friend or family member who has everything this holiday season? The question seemingly becomes harder to answer every year, but there’s one sure way to let that important person know you were thinking of them by getting them something you know they’ll be able to use: a streaming subscription! Some stream services allow you to gift a subscription directly to a new user, while others offer gift cards in various denominations to make it easy for the recipient to stream at no cost for months at a time. Which streaming services can you give as a gift this holiday? Find out below!
Which streaming services can you give as gifts for Christmas?
On-demand streaming services
Apple TV
Once again in 2025, one of the biggest electronics companies in the world has one of the most flexible gift options available for sale. Apple gift cards can be used to purchase just about anything the company makes, from streaming services like Apple TV to hardware like the Apple TV 4K streaming player, or even a new iPhone. Apple digital gift cards are available in denominations of $15 to $500.
Give an Apple digital gift card today!
BroadwayHD
If the gift-hungry recipient on your list is a bit more into musicals than they are blockbuster movies, let them try out BroadwayHD! The streamer offers hundreds of live performances of Broadway’s biggest shows, and you can gift either one month for $20 or one year for $200!
BritBox
If there’s an Anglophile on your gift list, this is definitely the way to go. BritBox hosts hundreds of British TV shows and movies, with some fantastic exclusives available alongside favorites like “The Sister Boniface Mysteries,” “Death In Paradise,” and more. You can grab either physical or digital gift cards to BritBox, with denominations from $25 to $250, or give a BritBox annual subscription as a gift for $110 per year, or bump up to the Premium plan for $150.
The Criterion Channel
The Criterion Channel is a fantastic gift idea for the movie buffs in your life. This streamer carries an inventory of thousands of historically significant titles, with monochrome and color titles available. It’s a highly curated library that allows viewers to browse by year, specific themes or directors, genre, or other filters. It’s the dream of every cinephile, and you can gift a monthly subscription for just $11 for between one and 12 months.
Disney+ and Hulu
There’s never been more content available on Disney+, especially if you bundle it with Hulu or even ESPN Select. Subscribers can now watch content from all three streaming services directly from the Disney+ app if they have accounts with each streamer, and you can buy a Disney+ e-gift card to send to friends and family, or keep for yourself! Cards can be purchased in denominations of $25 or can be loaded with custom amounts up to $200. You can spend this gift card on Disney+, Disney+ and Hulu, or any other permutation of the Disney Bundle.
ESPN Select
For the sports fan in your life, ESPN+ — which now lives on inside the Select package of the ESPN direct-to-consumer service — is offering the opportunity to gift a 1-year subscription for only $130. That will unlock more than 30,000 live sports games per year, with select “Monday Night Football” games, all out-of-market NHL games, college football and basketball, combat sports, and much more found on ESPN Select.
Netflix
The series finale of “Stranger Things,” hits Netflix on Dec. 31 and that makes it all the more convenient that shoppers can give e-gift cards to the streamer for the holidays now. Purchase pre-set cards of between $15 and $200, or load up the card with a custom amount and let your friends and family get to streaming!
Get a Netflix gift card for your loved ones today
Paramount+
You can use a Paramount+ e-gift card to purchase either plan of the streamer. Paramount+ Essential comes with limited ads during playback, full access to the Paramount+ library, as well as live sports like NFL football and the UEFA Champions League. You can also upgrade to Paramount+ with SHOWTIME to cut out ads, as well as get a livestream of your local CBS station 24 hours a day!
Get a $25 Paramount+ gift card
Get a $50 Paramount+ gift card
Get a $100 Paramount+ gift card
Peacock
Peacock has thousands of hours of content available, including favorites like “The Office,” new originals, Universal movies, and a huge amount of live sports like NFL football, Big Ten football and basketball, and much more. The streamer offers e-gift cards between $25 and $150 through an official third-party distributing partner.
Prime Video
There are no gift cards available directly for Prime Video, but you can give the discerning friend or family member on your list an Amazon gift card which can be used on a Prime subscription, or anything else you’ll find on the e-retailing giant’s website. You can also load up Amazon gift cards with custom denominations, so don’t hold back!
Live TV streaming
Sling TV
Sling TV has gift cards available starting at $35, which will help viewers get access to its base channel packages starting at $46 per month, or its Passes starting at just $5 per day. Sling is an inexpensive way to get top cable channels like ESPN, FX, TNT, USA Network, and other channels, and even offers some content in Ultra-High-Definition 4K at no extra cost!