There are literally hundreds if not thousands of multiplayer games you and your group can play together over the internet, for every possible type of gamer, far too many to comprehensively list here. Their Group Session feature (restricted to Spotify Premium users) allows you to invite your friends to listen along with you to a playlist, album, or even podcast. There's a super-fun twitter handle called Tim' s Twitter Listening Party that has members of the bands join in on listening parties for their own albums, while they tweet various bits of info and trivia about the records- so far, bands like New Order, Oasis, Blur, The Specials, and Mogwai have participated.īut if you're looking for a more private, non-Twitter-based listening party with your posse, then Spotify has you covered. Listening parties have been making a bit of a comeback lately. (But come on, who doesn't have a Netflix account by now? I'm surprised they don't give 'em out as Cracker Jack prizes.) The other downside is that none of these services offer audio or video chat while you're watching, but there's nothing stopping you from having your posse on a group text chat or conference phone call while you watch. The downside is that everyone joining will need to have their own subscription to the streaming service you're watching. What better to watch on Netflix Party than Billy On The Street?īut if video quality is important, your favorite streaming service almost certainly has unveiled their own version of having a virtual watch party - Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, and Disney Plus all have ways to watch their content together. Sadly, everyone will need to make their own popcorn. On the plus side everybody can voice chat during the movie. The downside is the video quality of the playback over Zoom might not be great. The advantage here is that only the person sharing the screen needs to have a subscription to the streaming service. The most obvious way is to have one person start a movie on their computer during a Zoom call, and then share the screen to the other members of the call. There are a couple of ways to gather your posse together for movie or TV night: What's better than you and a group of friends all freaking out at a horror movie together, or you and your pals trash-talking various Bachelorettes? Nuthin', that's what.
Let's be honest, there are some movies that are just better with a group. And, most importantly, all of them are free! Let's watch a movie! Google Meet (which replaces the old Google Hangout feature) of course integrates with Gmail and Google Calendar. Teams is more geared towards a work environment but integrates really well with Outlook Calendar which, if you have the memory of an amoeba like I do, can be pretty helpful. But if Zoom ain't your thing, you can also check out similar services from Skype, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams.
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