Max’s Marketing Boss Explains Using Old ‘Harry Potter’ Logo to Announce New Series, and Boosting Combined Platform’s Family Focus

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Max’s Marketing Boss Explains Using Old ‘Harry Potter’ Logo to Announce New Series, and Boosting Combined Platform’s Family Focus
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As HBO Max morphs into Max next month, the onus is now on the marketing teams inside Warner Bros. Discovery to get the word out. While talk of a combined HBO Max and Discovery+ streamer has swirled…

to get the word out. While talk of a combined HBO Max and Discovery+ streamer has swirled around Hollywood for months , awareness of the change is just now hitting consumers., global chief marketing officer of direct-to-consumer at Warner Bros. Discovery, and his team will come in.

Is this grasping, or is that slogan a nod to the idiosyncratic episode naming for “Friends,” which always began the titles with “The One…”? A big decision to move to ‘Max’ was to signal change. The change is that this is a service for the entire family. As JB Perrette [president and CEO of global streaming and games] mentioned on stage, HBO is not conducive to family viewing. But with Max and, more importantly with the content that we’ll have in it, we feel very comfortable that we can deliver on family viewing, including for kids. We have some of the best properties, from Looney Tunes to “Chopped Junior” and everything in between.

With “The One to Watch” as the slogan for Max, what does that mean for Discovery+ and how you will continue to market both products to consumers? It’s what David said. We know we have great assets on both news and sports and in the coming months, we as a company will figure out the right strategy to have those be part of the service, but nothing to report on now.

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