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Guess who's back? Back again? The HBO in HBO Max will return this summer, two years after Warner Bros. Discovery dropped it from the streamer's name.
We’re not quite there yet, but it sure feels imminent.
Warner Bros. Discovery executives are reinstating the name HBO Max for the popular streaming service. It’s the fourth name change for the app in the last decade.
A little more than two years after lopping “HBO” off of the streamer’s name to create the breezily-named Max streamer, Warner Bros. Discovery has decided to reverse course. Max — the unloved mononymous identity, too cool or too anxious to acknowledge its origins — is HBO Max once more .
WBD CEO David Zaslav announced the move, with the company declaring, "no consumer today is saying they want more content, but better content."
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Warner Bros. Discovery's rebranding of HBO Max highlights the merger's failure to reach its original goal.
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Discovery announced during Wednesday's Upfront presentations that its big streaming app, Max, will be rebranded once again. And it's a name we're all familiar with. It's "the plot twist everyone's been waiting for,
Warner Bros. Discovery marketing chief Shauna Spenley says she and other senior execs expect a "hot take" from John Oliver on the HBO Max rebrand.