WBD CEO David Zaslav announced the move, with the company declaring, "no consumer today is saying they want more content, but better content."

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 .

We’re not quite there yet, but it sure feels imminent.

Warner Bros. Discovery ignited a wave of social media reactions when it announced it was renaming its streaming service HBO Max.

Warner Bros. Discovery's rebranding of HBO Max highlights the merger's failure to reach its original goal.

All I’m saying is if HBO Max really wanted to play that card, they should have gotten Jude Law to reprise his character from The New Pope to announce the news. Then again, wouldn’t that news sound better coming from The White Lotus Season 3 cast members Carrie Coon, Leslie Bibb, and Michelle Monaghan?

HBO Max became simply Max in 2023. Now Warner Bros. Discovery is going back to basics and reclaiming a brand long associated with high-quality programming.

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,