HBO Max Is Back
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Warner Bros. Discovery knew the announcement that it was restoring “HBO” to the name of its Max streamer would elicit forehead-slapping derision. The media company tried to preempt mockery of the move by posting a slew of self-deprecating memes immediately after it said the “new-ish” HBO Max name would come back this summer.
The decision to rebrand from HBO Max to Max and back again has people laughing. At least HBO Max can laugh at itself, too.
Max will become HBO Max again this summer, Warner Bros. Discovery said this week — two years after the name change that hasn't stuck. Here's what to know about the rebrand (and some others of note).
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos weighed in on Warner Bros. Discovery's decision to revert to HBO Max branding.
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 .