[Live] Walmart+ Adds Paramount+ Essential Subscription Streaming Benefit ($60 Annual Value)

(Update 9/8/22: Now live)

Walmart announced today a new partnership with the Paramount+ streaming service: subscribers of Walmart+ will get a Paramount+ Essential subscription at no extra cost. That’s the basic streaming membership level which costs $4.99/month and comes with some ads. The benefit begins in September.

Walmart+ costs $98/year or $12.95/month and now more closely resembles the Amazon Prime subscription which comes with the Prime Video benefit on top of the regular shopping and delivery benefits.

Walmart+ comes as a free benefit for Amex Platinum cardholders, so this will affect a lot of people. Some of us do the monthly free codes to get free ad-free Paramount+, though it could be useful to have a steady membership. I wonder if they’ll allow incrementally upgrading to the ad-free version which usually costs $9.99/month.
    Chuck
  • On September 8, 2022, 15:18
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  • I had to renew my Paramount+ subscription via Walmart+ today. I guess I have to do it on a monthly basis (I have the monthly Walmart+ subscription).

  • HOW TO DO THIS IF YOU'RE ALREADY A SUBSCRIBER

    As @TheBlindLife said, this is not intuitive and there's nothing to indicate success, but here's what you do:

    (This assumes you have already cancelled your Paramount+ subscription and let it expire. This is required. Once you get the e-mail from Paramount+ saying your subscription expired, follow these steps.)

    1) Sign into WalMart+.
    2) Click the "Get Paramount+" button. This takes you to a Paramount+ sign-up page.
    3) Ignore the sign-up form and click the "Sign in" link in the upper right corner of the page.
    4) Sign in using your existing Paramount+ credentials.
    Done...

    To verify:
    1) Go to your account settings in Paramount+.
    2) If it says "Walmart" under "Subscription and Billing", you're good. (If not ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

    • Not intuitive at all. This method worked for me. Thanks for the detailed step-by-step instructions!

  • Setting up with Walmart+ was not an intuitive process. First, it wasn’t under the Walmart+ section where Spotify was, instead it’s under Services tab. Once you click link, you’re then directed to Paramount+ page. I already had account I let lapse, so I just signed in. Brought me to the shows and Hub section.
    No success message. No email, nothing. I only knew it worked when I went to subscription and payment section. There it showed I was subscribed through W+.

  • Has anyone who is _already a Paramount+ subscriber_ completed the process? It appears that you need to 1) Cancel your Paramount+ subscription, 2) Wait for it to run out (the end of your current billing cycle), and then 3) Create a NEW Paramount+ account. That last bit is irksome. That means using a different e-mail address and losing all of the information on what I've watched, etc.

    • You need to cancel your plan and setup once the billing cycle ends. No need to create account. You can use existing account credentials. Stated in Paramount+ FAQ’s.

  • Setting up with Walmart+ was not an intuitive process. First, it wasn’t under the Walmart+ section where Spotify was, instead it’s under Services tab. Once you click link, you’re then directed to Paramount+ page. I already had account I let lapse, so I just signed in. Brought me to the shows and Hub section.
    No success message. No email, nothing. I only knew it worked when I went to subscription an payment section. There it showed I was subscribed through W+. What a dumpster f***!!!!

  • I currently have Paramount+ with ads and there are about ten minutes of commercials per one hour show,

    • not free though, right? It's $9 back, not 9.99 (plus tax if unlucky to live in a streaming tax state).

      I don't have an issue with ads. I appreciate the time to get up instead of getting caught up and watching for hours without getting up.

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