Save hundreds on TV streaming services Netflix, Amazon Prime and Disney Plus with 'leapfrogging' method

With more streaming services available than ever and the prices of everything going up it's easy to end up spending hundreds of pounds each year on watching TV and films. Over half of UK households are signed up to at least one streaming service, while millions more have digital TV subscriptions like Sky.

Meanwhile, Netflix announced this week it would be increasing the monthly cost of subscriptions to £10.99 and is also reportedly starting a clampdown on shared accounts in reaction to massive drops in subscriber numbers and revenue.

There are plenty of ways to cut down TV costs, from using Tesco Clubcard points to get Disney Plus, to getting free trials of Amazon Prime or Now's television service. But the simplest way to make the biggest cuts on your budget for entertainment is by what we would call 'leapfrogging' services. We take a look at what this means, how it works and most importantly how much you can save.

With the best will in the world, there's only a finite amount of time to watch TV. So rather than have subscriptions to the four biggest streaming services (Disney Plus, Amazon Prime, Netflix, Apple TV) simultaneously, take advantage of the fact they have no annual subscription and flit between them. Even before you take advantage of other ways to get free trials or discounts, at its most basic this could save the average household more than £250 a year on streaming costs assuming they used each streaming service for just three months of the year.

So, if you wanted to subscribe to Disney Plus first, to make sure you can watch Marvel's Moon Knight, Ewan McGregor's return to the Star Wars universe in Obi Wan, coming in late May and then the hotly anticipated She-Hulk starring Orphan Black's Tatiana Maslany