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As first reported by Variety, Paramount Skydance will combine Paramount+ and HBO Max into one streaming service once completion of the Warner Bros. Discovery merger is complete. Paramount CEO David Ellison confirmed the plan in an investor call, giving the studio a little over 200 million direct-to-consumer subscribers, and indicated that the merger will be complete by the middle of 2026. However, he also stated that HBO as a brand will “operate with independence.” See the rest of what Ellison said below:
David Ellison: We’ll have completed the consolidation of our three services under one unified stack, and you can see us taking a similar approach to this platform going forward. And we think the combined offering, and given the amount of content and what we can do from the tech side, really will put us in a position to be able to compete with the most scaled players in DTC.
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