Peacock removed its free trial some time ago and, while it sometimes features promotional offers, there are currently no ways to watch the service absolutely free.

However, there are still plenty of little tricks you can try to watch Peacock for less than the usual price.

For example, all Walmart+ subscriptions include access to your choice of either Peacock Premium or Paramount+. You can take up a $1 trial for 30 days, after which the Walmart+ price reverts to $12.95 a month. Pay for a whole year at $98, and that’s actually cheaper than Peacock Premium on its own!

Online grocery service Instacart+ includes Peacock Premium and costs only $99 per year (after a 14-day free trial), saving you $10.

If you’re looking for a new internet provider, Peacock Premium is included with a selection of Xfinity plans.

And you can also look out for discounts if you’re a student, teacher or in the military.

Watching Peacock online and via its app is only possible within the US and its territories. Try to use your subscription (or sign up) when outside the US, and you’ll be prevented from doing so.

There is a way around this, however – namely, using the best Peacock VPN. As well as letting you tap into Peacock and other streaming services you’d normally watch at home when you’re overseas, their encrypted tunnels and cybersecurity smarts also protect you from online threats.

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Although you can’t run NordVPN directly on other devices, such as Roku, and PlayStation and Xbox consoles, an easy workaround is running NordVPN on your smartphone or computer and setting up a hotspot.

There’s is a breadth of content available to watch on Peacock.

To start with, all tiers include all of NBC’s programming – as it goes out and on demand. So that includes all of the biggest current shows from NBC itself, such as Law & Order, Saturday Night Live, Chicago Fire, and America’s Got Talent, but also catalogs of episodes from its hottest properties from years gone by, like Yellowstone, The Office and 30 Rock.

There are shows from more than 50 channels that you can watch live and on demand through Peacock, with Law & Crime Network, Court TV and Game Show Central lined up alongside NBC’s standard channels.

Upgrade to Peacock Premium, and you open up a world of live sport (more on which below), a vault of hundreds of movies, and all of the platform’s original programming.

Peacock Originals are available exclusively through the streamer, and recent hits have included comedies like Ted and The Paper, dramas such as All Her Fault and Those About to Die, plus reality picks The Traitors US, Love Island Games and Here Come the Irish.

If you’re away from home when your favorite sport is due to broadcast on NBCUniversal channels, the Peacock app on your mobile device will let you watch it from anywhere.

The Olympics and Winter Olympics are the jewel in NBC’s crown when it comes to sports, with Peacock showing every minute of every event from the Games.

Premier League soccer, Ryder Cup golf, Grand Slam tennis (French and US Opens), the World Athletics Championships, Tour de France cycling and Six Nations rugby are a mere sample of the other major sporting events that are exclusively available on Peacock.

And, of course, NBC has the rights to show the Super Bowl every few years. The next time the Super Bowl is on Peacock will be 2030.