Branding Experts on Decision to Flip Max Back to HBO Max
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Some of HBO's biggest disappointments are "The Idol" and "Vinyl," which came from acclaimed creatives like Sam Levinson and Martin Scorsese.
HBO has announced that the name of its streaming service is changing back from Max to HBO Max this summer. HBO Max is what the platform was known as when it launched in 2020, but the HBO portion of the name was dropped in 2023 as its parent company sought to give it its own identity.
The market has spoken here, and quality is the real differentiator.” To put it more plainly: The basic assumption behind the Max branding, that viewers would flock to Discovery’s big buckets of unscripted dross over the decades of quality material in HBO and other Warner Bros.
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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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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.
Warner Bros. Discovery says it is changing the name of its Max streaming service to HBO Max later this summer. It represents a rare corporate do-over.
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.
Warner Bros. Discovery ignited a wave of social media reactions when it announced it was renaming its streaming service HBO Max.
In what may be a first in the modern streaming wars, Max is returning to the name it had when it launched in 2020, HBO Max.