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 .

Warner Bros. Discovery is changing the name of its streaming platform back to its original name, HBO Max. Launched in 2020, HBO Max changed its name to just Max in 2023, after a merger between Warner Media and Discovery, Inc. in 2022.

Here's what the executives had to say about the decision to switch back to HBO Max. WBD executives on the HBO Max rebrand. First up was Zaslav, who was the main driver behind the