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Rumor has it that Max and Paramount+ will merge into one platform
In May, HBO Max and Discovery Plus came together to form Max, but more mergers may follow in the future.
According to CNBC, Paramount Global is in talks with Warner Bros. Discovery, the company that owns Max, about a possible merger between Max and Paramount Plus.
Both Max and Paramount+ include sports programming, with the former streaming the NBA and NHL, and the latter with rights to games from the NFL and UEFA. This could make it an attractive package for customers.
Add in TV series like House of the Dragon, The Last of Us, Knuckles and the Star Trek franchise, and this would be a pretty formidable streaming platform.
We don’t yet know if this will impact Max’s subscription costs, but there was a price change when the Discovery+ library was added to the platform. It is also unclear whether this merger would apply to countries outside the US.
Currently, Max has almost 100 million subscribers, while Paramount+ has 71 million subscribers. If the two services were to merge, they could seriously compete with Amazon Prime Video, Netflix and Disney Plus.
Max will also launch as a bundle with Disney+ and Hulu later this year.
This article originally appeared in our sister publication M3 and was translated and adapted from Swedish.
