After last week's bombshell news that Warner Bros. Discovery has accepted Paramount's merger offer, Paramount CEO David Ellison shared in an investor call that plans are underway to merge Paramount+ and HBO Max into a single streaming platform, as reported by Variety.
“As we said, we do plan to put the two services together, which today gives us a little over 200 million direct to consumer subscribers,” explained Ellison. "We think that really positions us to compete with the leaders in the space." For the sake of comparison, Netflix has around 300-325 million global subscribers as of early 2026.
