{"id":51456,"date":"2025-07-09T13:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T13:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/51456\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T13:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T13:07:09","slug":"hbo-max-is-officially-hbo-max-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/51456\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO Max is officially HBO Max again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">After announcing in May that it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/666707\/hbo-max-returning-rebrand-warner-bros-discovery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">giving up and returning to HBO Max branding<\/a> for its streaming service, today Warner Bros. has officially made the change. The new \/ old branding can now be found across the streamer\u2019s website and apps.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"duet--article--blockquote ewrhy30 _1xwtict9\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup ewrhy38 _1xwtict1\">\u201cSame app. New-ish name. The plot twist everyone has been waiting for: Max is now HBO Max.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Unlike the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/5\/23\/23733382\/max-hbo-warner-bros-discovery-app-hands-on\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Max rollout<\/a>, users won\u2019t need to download a new app, and subscribers should see their app update automatically to the HBO Max branding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">In case you\u2019ve lost track, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/4\/21\/21229362\/hbo-max-launch-date-warnermedia-now-go-peacock-quibi-price\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HBO Max launched in 2020<\/a> in an attempt to consolidate HBO\u2019s messy streaming options and give Warner Bros. a single platform to rival Netflix and Disney Plus. It became Max in 2023, a rebrand that was met with immediate derision and has since been seen as an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/667047\/hbo-max-rebrand-criticism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">all-time screw-up<\/a> on par with New Coke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After announcing in May that it was giving up and returning to HBO Max branding for its streaming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":51457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[171,50,6584,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-51456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-streaming","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114823433439570834","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}