Every day there are more and more streaming platforms on the market. Each of them offer a wide variety of content such as series, movies, live shows, documentaries and more. Some platforms are more oriented to one type of contentsuch as FlixOlé, which focuses on Spanish cinema, or Filmin, whose most important content is independent cinema.
Among the content platforms that we find in Spain, we will find some generalist ones, as well as free platforms and some thematic ones.
To help all those users who have not decided which streaming platform to choose, we have made a list of all the ones operating in Spain.
-Netflix: Netflix is one of the most popular streaming platforms. It has one of the largest catalogs of movies and series, both own production and major international productions.
-HBO Max: HBO’s streaming platform has the best series of the production company. Recently, all Warner Bros. own contents have also been added, so it has a very wide and really interesting catalog, with mythical series such as “The Sopranos” or “The Wire”.
-Disney+: Disney+ has all the classic and modern Disney movies. In its catalog we will also find FOX movies and series. Among its contents it is also possible to enjoy all the “Star Wars” movies and series and all the productions related to Marvel.
-Amazon Prime Video: Amazon’s streaming platform is one of the most economical, as this service is part of “Amazon Prime”. Prime Video also has a catalog of movies, series and documentaries, with own and third-party productions. It also has the option to buy or rent movies, as well as a number of channels, such as Starzplay or FlixOlé, which we can add to Prime Video to expand its content.
-Apple TV: Apple’s streaming service offers series and movies, with third-party and in-house content, such as the comedy “Ted Lasso” which has been one of the revelations of recent years. It has several subscription options, the option to watch content on multiple screens at the same time and has applications for various operating systems.
-Movistar+ and Movistar+ Lite: Movistar has its own streaming platform, which has two variants, the normal one, which is available only to the company’s customers, and the “Lite”, which has a reduced price. Movistar+ Lite offers a range of thematic and traditional DTT channels, as well as original and third-party series and sports.
-Starzplay: Starzplay is a TV channel, converted into a streaming platform. On this platform, which can be hired as part of the Orange TV package or as a channel of Amazon Prime Video, but also independently. Here we can find a good catalog of series, own and third party.
-Rakuten TV: Rakuten TV is a streaming platform of Japanese origin. In it, we can find a large catalog with series, movies and documentaries, as well as content aimed at children, and some channels such as Euro News or The Guardian. Rakuten TV has a free option in which we can watch most of the contents of the platform.
-Filmin: Filmin is a streaming platform focused on independent films, although it also features commercial series and movies, blockbusters and classic films. This is the perfect streaming service for movie lovers.
-fuboTV: fuboTV is a streaming service, with an affordable subscription price, and offering series, children’s programming, TV shows and movies. fuboTV has a channel, “Movistar Series 2” where we can watch some of Movistar’s series, such as “The Good Fight” or “Riverdale”. In addition, we have thematic channels and DTT, as well as the option to record up to 30 hours of content that are stored in the cloud.
-Acorn TV: Acorn TV can only be contracted if you are a Vodafone, Orange or Amazon Prime customer. It has series, TV channels and movies, both of its own production, as well as from third parties.
-FlixOlé: FlixOlé is the streaming platform focused on Spanish films and series. It is a platform created in Spain and has rescued some of the great Spanish productions. It also has some Italian and international movies.
-Mubi: Mubi, like Filmin, is a platform for independent film lovers. It is a different service, as it has some of its own features, such as the choice of the “movie of the day” or the billboard, in which they select some movies that are shown highlighted for some days.
-acontra+: Another platform focused on independent cinema. In this case, it has a feature called “collections”, where we can find separate categories of movies.
-Planet Horror: A streaming platform focused on horror movies and series. It is a perfect platform for lovers of scary movies, as it has a select catalog, with all genres of horror.
-We are Cine TVE: It is the cinema platform of Radio Televisión Española, so it is a free service. Here we can find a lot of Spanish movies, as well as children’s and animation movies.
-Crunchyroll: Crunchyroll is a streaming platform for manga lovers. Here you will find the most famous manga series and movies, as well as some very specialized titles.
-Spamflix: In Spamflix we will find only cult movies. The content is updated every month and we can find movies like “Justino: killer of the third age” or “VOID”. One of the features of the platform is that it has games.
-hayu: For reality TV lovers, “hayu” has everything you are looking for. In this case, all content is in English.
-iQIYI: This is a streaming platform with Chinese series and movies, so all the content we will find are the country’s own productions.
-DAZN: DAZN is a platform focused on sports. Here we can find soccer, both Spanish and international (as it has the Premier League), and also Formula 1, Moto GP, boxing and other sports.
-Barça TV: Barça TV is the content platform of the Spanish soccer club. Here you will find documentaries, information and news about the club, content about the team and players, as well as a series of old broadcasts.
-Eurosport: Eurosport is one of the biggest sports channels in the world. Here you will find information, news, documentaries and everything from live sports broadcasts.
-Footers: In Footers we can enjoy all the First and Second Division RFEF matches.
-Discovery +: It is the service of the “docu-reality” or reality documentaries. It has content in many categories such as crime, paranormal, science or survival.
-LaLigaSportsTV Plus: A free service, where we can enjoy all the matches of LaLiga SmartBank, as well as the LNFS, ASOBAL, LaLiga Santander, with matches and summaries, documentaries and summaries of the best goals of each day.
-Pluto TV: Pluto TV is a free TV service, in which we can find thematic channels, as well as movies and series. The channels are divided by themes, but it also has channels focused on programs such as a channel dedicated to “Curro Jiménez”.
-Plex: Plex is a content server, which allows us to create our own streaming service, but also has content channels, series and movies. However, all this free content is in English.
-Rlaxx: As PlutoTV is a free service, with advertising, in which we will be able to watch a large number of series, movies and channels. In this case, all the content we will see will be in English.
-Distro TV: Distro TV is another free service, with advertising, in which we will have channels of all kinds, as well as on-demand content, where we can watch series and movies in streaming. Distro TV has channels from all over the world, although all content is in English.
-Phone company platforms: In Spain, most telephone companies have their own content platforms. In this sense, we have Vodafone TV, Orange TV, Movistar+ and Agile TV which is part of the services of Yoigo, Másmóvil or Euskaltel, these streaming services offer thematic channels, on-demand content and, in some cases, live sports.
-TV platforms: Finally, many of the Spanish DTT TV channels have their own streaming platforms, where we can watch all the programs, series and movies of the channels, as well as own contents. In Spain we can find Atresplayer Premium with the channels of Atresmedia, Mitele Plus with those of Mediaset, RTVE Play with the contents of TVE; CanalSur Más, with the content of Canal Sur and Tivify, with all the channels of the Spanish DTT.
