• Mereo@lemmy.ca
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    For the life of me, I don't understand why they rebranded themselves. HBO is such a recognized brand. I was confused at first about what Max was.

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      Because they have begun fucking over their customers and don't want to associate HBO with that

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      Agree. HBO is some high class, quality shit. Max is meaningless. I guess it corresponds with the CEO of Discovery channel coming in to wreck HBO in the same way he did Discovery.

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      It's like Twitter rebranding to X. It's extremely detrimental to the brand, but it makes some executive feel really good about themselves and that's all that really matters apparently.

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        Isn’t Max literally Cinemax’s streaming service, that merged with HBO Now to form HBO Max, and is now back to being just Max?

        This is the part that was, for some reason, never communicated to anyone. HBO streaming didn’t rebrand, they were absorbed into Cinemax.

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        Didn’t Cinemax originally run a bunch of porn?

        Next iteration should be CliMax.

        EDIT I think back in the day it was jokingly called skinamax for that reason.

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      One business analyst figures it's a new guy trying to establish his mark and/or his midlife crisis.

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      Based on my experience working with PR teams and executives - you probably had a bored PR team that wanted to do something that feels important or relavent, and they pitched it to the exec team in a way that made them feel all important and excited (they probably threw in the phrase "lifestyle brand" a few times), so they went with it against all reason