Who owns HBO Max?
HBO Max is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery (the United States, NASDAQ: WBD).[1]
Evidence: Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-27, SEC EDGAR, 27 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, New York, New York
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Founded
- 2020
- Category
- Internet & digital › Streaming & media › Streaming video
- Parent ticker
- NASDAQ: WBD
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About HBO Max
HBO Max launched in 2020, was renamed simply Max in 2023 to signal a broader range than HBO alone, and was renamed back to HBO Max in 2025 after the change was judged a mistake. Few consumer brands have reversed a rename so publicly.
What Warner Bros. Discovery's annual report says about HBO Max
Sentences about HBO Max from Warner Bros. Discovery's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
HBO Max is a streaming destination for a variety of programming including HBO Originals, Warner Bros. films, HBO Max Originals, the DC universe, the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, CNN, and programming across food, home, reality, lifestyle, and documentaries from leading brands like HGTV, Food Network, Discovery Channel, and more.
Our strategy to grow our Streaming business globally delivered success in 2025 with HBO Max's expansion hitting over 100 markets including Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, Australia, and Asia and the addition of 14.7 million global subscribers to our Streaming products.
In 2025, our content pipeline for HBO and HBO Max included the highly anticipated returns of The White Lotus , The Last of Us , Hacks , ...And Just Like That , Peacemaker , and The Gilded Age, as well as the series premieres of It: Welcome to Derry and Task .
How often Warner Bros. Discovery names HBO Max in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named more often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of HBO Max
- Current owner Warner Bros. Discovery [1] verified
Where HBO Max sits in Warner Bros. Discovery
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Warner Bros. Discovery
Warner Bros. Discovery controls 9 brands on Brandtree.
- Cartoon Network (1992)
- CNN (1980)
- DC (1934)
- Discovery Channel (1985)
- Food Network (1993)
- HBO (1972)
- TLC (1972)
- Warner Bros. (1923)
Other brands in streaming video, and who owns them
The 37 brands in streaming video on Brandtree belong to 25 owners. The largest is AMC Networks, with 5.
About the owner: Warner Bros. Discovery
Warner Bros. Discovery is a publicly listed company headquartered in New York, New York, United States, founded in 2022. Brandtree records 9 brands under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: WBD.
Warner Bros. Discovery was formed in 2022 when AT&T spun off WarnerMedia and merged it with Discovery, three years after AT&T had paid $85 billion for it. The combined company carries very large debt from that history, which has shaped almost every decision it has made since.
Warner Bros. Discovery: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇺🇸 HBO Max and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,549 brands that began in the United States. 478 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; HBO Max is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of HBO Max?
The parent company of HBO Max is Warner Bros. Discovery, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is HBO Max American?
Yes. HBO Max originated in the United States in 2020 and its owner, Warner Bros. Discovery, is also headquartered in the United States.
Is HBO Max still owned by Warner Bros. Discovery?
Yes. As of 9 October 2026, HBO Max is still owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-27 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 27 February 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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