If you're an NFL fan, you've probably thought about getting NFL Sunday Ticket before football season starts. YouTube's football-only streaming service gives you access to every out-of-market regular-season game. But if you sign up on your iPhone, you could be spending hundreds of dollars more than everyone else.
According to Puck's John Ourand, if you sign up through the YouTube app on an Apple device, the starting price for NFL Sunday Ticket is $679.99 (thanks NBCSports). Adding NFL RedZone brings the price up to $739.99. I checked for myself and can confirm that this price is accurate, at least on my iPad.
This is an important matter — potentiallyThe NFL Sunday Ticket price is usually $479 for the 2024-25 NFL season. However, if you have YouTube TV, you can get a $100 discount by signing up through YouTube TV. This means that if you sign up through the YouTube app on Apple, you spend up to $300 more.
There is some good news, however. You don't need to purchase Sunday Ticket through Apple. Simply sign up through YouTube Primetime Channels or YouTube TV online via a web browser. If you do this, you will only pay the regular price and may even get a $50 discount if YouTube is running a promotion.
You will still be able to use your Sunday Ticket subscription without any restrictions even if you don't sign up through Apple, so there is no reason to sign up through Apple.
Apple's Share of App Store Sales Is to Blame
The reason Sunday Ticket is so expensive on Apple devices is because the company takes a 30% cut of all sales on its App Store. To compensate, YouTube, which is owned by Google and its parent company Alphabet, simply raised the price on devices like iPhones and iPads.
In fact, YouTube doesn't even let you sign up through YouTube TV on these devices. It requires you to follow a link to a web browser to manage your YouTube TV subscription outside of the App Store ecosystem, because it doesn't want to give Apple a dime of its revenue if it doesn't need it.
Fanduel Unveils Sunday Ticket Free Trial
But there's even more good news. Not only do you not need to subscribe to Sunday Ticket through Apple, meaning you can still pay the regular price, but you can finally get a free trial of NFL Sunday Ticket.
fanduel is currently running a promotion that will allow you to enjoy three weeks of NFL Sunday Ticket for free. Simply sign up for the promotion on the betting site's promotions page, place a $5 real money wager and you will then receive a promotional link via email starting September 5th. You will have until September 22nd to redeem your promo code for three free weeks.
Of course, this offer is only available to individuals of legal gambling age in states that permit Fanduel Sportsbook to operate. Specifically, this means those who are at least 18 years old and physically present in the District of Columbia or at least 21 years old and physically present in Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana (excluding the following parishes: Caldwell, Catahoula, Franklin, Jackson, LaSalle, Sabine, Union, West Carroll and Winn), Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia or Wyoming.