How To Activate Hulu with Spotify : Spotify Premium Student with Hulu and SHOWTIME
With Spotify Premium for Students + Hulu, subscribers can have access to both Spotify and Hulu (ad-supported). You can confirm if you’re subscribed to Spotify through Hulu on your Hulu Account page in the Payment Information section.
Signing up for Hulu
If you have Spotify Premium for Students but don’t currently subscribe to Hulu:
- Log into your Spotify Premium for Students account
- Go to your account page and select Activate Hulu under Account overview
- Complete the required fields and following prompts to activate your Hulu account
Once you’ve activated your Hulu account you should be all set to log in on any of our supported devices and start streaming.
If you already subscribe to both Spotify Premium for Students and Hulu separately:
- Make sure your current Hulu account is billed directly through Hulu (not a third party)
- Ensure that the email associated with both accounts is the same
- If they’re not, we suggest changing your Hulu email so it matches the one associated with your Spotify account
- Follow the steps above to activate
If you have Hulu but don’t currently subscribe to Spotify:
- Visit Spotify’s support site to see if you’re eligible for a Spotify Premium for Students account
- If eligible, create an account using the same email associated with your Hulu account
- Follow the steps above to activate
Get discount Premium, plus access to Hulu’s ad-supported plan and SHOWTIME, all for $4.99/month. Once you have Premium Student, activate your Hulu ad-supported plan and SHOWTIME from your services page.
Note: You can’t combine this offer with any other Hulu plan or add-ons.
Managing a Spotify-billed Hulu account
With Spotify Premium for Students + Hulu, subscribers can have access to both Spotify and Hulu (ad-supported). You can confirm if you’re subscribed to Spotify through Hulu on your Hulu Account page in the Payment Information section.
Select a topic from the list below to learn more about account management as a Spotify-billed subscriber:
- Signing up for Hulu
- Updating payment method
- Switching plans or managing add-ons
- Cancelling your Hulu account
Updating your payment method
Spotify-billed subscribers can update their payment information directly through Spotify. If you’d like to change your billing date, please visit Spotify’s support site.
If you no longer wish to subscribe to Hulu through Spotify, you will need to subscribe directly through Hulu. Existing Spotify-billed subscribers can deactivate Hulu by following the steps below, then resubscribe at hulu.com/welcome.
Switching plans or managing add-ons
As a Spotify Premium for Students subscriber, you only have access to Hulu’s ad-supported plan. If you’d like to sign up for Hulu (No Ads), Hulu + Live TV, or any add-ons, you’ll need to subscribe directly through Hulu. Existing Spotify Premium for Students subscribers will want to deactivate Hulu first. If you’d like to sign up for The Disney Bundle, you’ll need to visit DisneyPlus.com and sign up with same email you use for your existing Hulu subscription.
After deactivating your Hulu account, click Go to Hulu or visit hulu.com/welcome to resubscribe. Make sure you use the same email address as before if you’d like to keep your profiles and watch history.
Cancelling your Hulu account
Spotify Premium for Students subscribers can cancel their Hulu account at any time directly from your Spotify account page. To do so, select Your Services under Account Overview then click Deactivate Hulu. Completing this action only removes your access to Hulu — your Spotify account should not be impacted.
Already using Hulu or SHOWTIME?
You can use an existing Hulu / SHOWTIME account, or create one when you activate the plan
Switching your billing
For Hulu, you agree to automatically switch your billing to Spotify during sign up
For SHOWTIME, you first need to cancel any current plans:
- Cancel your current plan with SHOWTIME
- Wait for your SHOWTIME plan to expire
- Activate SHOWTIME through your services.
