Warner Bros. Discovery lost 1.8 million subscribers in the three months following the launch of Max. The losses weren’t exclusive to the Max streaming service, though. In its earnings report on Thursday, the company reported having 95.8 million global subscribers across all of its services — down from 97.6 million at the end of the first quarter of this year.
I am one of those subscribers. I did not leave because of the name. I left because Zaslav took an axe to a lot of the content my family used the service for. And then even if that hadn’t been enough to drive us off, they jacked up the prices so they could include a bunch of horseshit reality TV.