HBO Max to launch streaming service in Australia
Warner Bros Discovery’s local president has confirmed that the Max streaming service will be launching in Australia during the first half of 2025.
Speaking at the APOS conference in Bali on Wednesday — Asia’s premier event for the media, telecoms and entertainment industry – Warner Bros Discovery APAC president James Gibbons confirmed that the streaming service — formerly known as HBO Max — will be launching in Australia next year.
I now see why they went for different brands for Kayo and Binge. I couldn’t understand why you would create the cost of two consumer brands that you needed to support. However, if one of these (Binge) was never going to survive the loss of the content that drives its subscriptions then it makes sense to give Kayo a chance to live on without being impacted.
@Chris
Those were heady days on the high seas, mi matey!
RIP Foxtel then I suppose.
Another top move from WBD. Let’s enter an already crowded space by taking content from an established player. Because its working so well in the US market, where streamers are already looking to consolidate.
Binge is a P.O.S.that Foxtel has given little thought to, even fewer resources and even less than that, respect for their customers. I mean it will probably cease to exist having never moved into the current era technology for it’s entire existence. HBO will be 4k with Atmos on most self made content and more. It’s a decade overdue. Hopefully its not still called Max when it does arrive. Dropping HBO from the name is the most confusing move by any of the media conglomerates to date.
This is genuinely the most unnecessary expansion. If they take all the HBO shows off of Binge, not only am I cancelling my Binge sub, I’ll go back to pirating HBO shows.
Goodnight Foxtel/Binge.
Kayo could easily be replacement by WBD Max/Discovery+ branding. They have great content offerings in the UK and US which could put Kayo to shame
Is that our Foxtel buyer?
Hubbl is starting to make more sense. In the context of this news, I feel we could assume that content will be moved over on launch of HBO Max.
The h bulk of the stripped shows will disappear as well non Newscorp news channels from Foxtel. goodbye Discovery Channels.