HBO Max is on the way out, but Discovery Plus will remain.
. Now, though, those plans are changing for reasons that Warner Bros. Discovery probably should have seen coming.reports that while Warner Bros. Discovery is still launching a new service called Max, it now plans to keep a version of just Discovery Plus running in an effort not to lose many of the platform’s current 20 million subscribers who might not be willing to sign up for Max and its higher price point when it launches sometime this spring.
While “most” of Discovery Plus’ content will live on Max, a significant portion of it will remain on the old DIscovery Plus platform, which ranges anywhere from $4.99–$6.99 per month, depending on whether you want ads or not. Prices have yet to be announced for Max, but with HBO Max subscriptions ranging from $9.99–$15.99 a month, it’s easy to imagine some Discovery Plus customers balking at the idea of being upcharged to jump over to a platform they didn’t exactly ask for.
As serious as Warner Bros. Discovery may be about putting HBO Max behind it, the company also doesn’t want to lose its valuable Discovery Plus subscriber base in the process, which is why this backtracking doesn’t really come as a surprise. Keeping Discovery Plus around might be a prudent financial decision. But it also highlights how — even now — Warner Bros.
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