So Discovery+ will stick around. And keeping it makes some sense given all the other streaming plates that WBD is spinning right now
that Discovery+ will not disappear from the earth after it gets merged with HBO Max later this year. The combined service is still happening and will include all the content on both streamers, but Discovery+ will “stay on the market,” a spokesperson confirmed to Vulture. It will be a stand-alone entity that you can still subscribe to without having to also pony up for all that fancy HBO content.
“The decision to keep Discovery+ is part of an effort to avoid risking losing a significant chunk of the app’s 20 million subscribers who might not want to pay the higher price to access that content,” thereports. Discovery+ is profitable, and there are concerns that its audience won’t turn out in droves for a flashy, new, marked-up service.undoubtedly engenders a certain die-hard loyalty, after all, but the company is skittish on testing it for a price point higher than $4.99 a month or $6.
So Discovery+ will stick around. And keeping it makes some sense given all the other streaming plates the company’s spinning right now: WBD is still moving toward a larger, flagshippier service than what HBO Max and Discovery+ currently look like — one that includes all the programming available on both services. WBD is also now licensing a, complete with a bunch of live channels on those services. It’s trying to build a free, ad-supported streaming service of its own as well.
With all that in motion, WBD has no reason to futz with a product already making dough — especially one that can still merge into the flagship streaming service it first hyped last year (complete with
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