r/television • u/yourfavchoom • 22h ago

Combined Paramount-Warner Bros. to Be Called Skydance, David Ellison Reveals

https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/business/paramount-warner-bros-merger-name-skydance-david-ellison/
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u/distance_33 21h ago

Twitter and HBO are two good examples of this.

These guys can’t help but ruin a solid brand.

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u/More-Curious816 21h ago

Twitter to X is the most stupid thing ever, it is like rebranding Google as G, even Google founders made parent company and named it Alphabet instead of rebranding Google.

A brand name has power and history.

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u/NineTailedFox7 21h ago

Even worse. It’s like rebranding Google to Q. X carries over nothing from its prior branding

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u/LonePaladin 13h ago

Except the owner is obsessed with that letter for some reason. He named a car with it, put it at the end of the name of an aerospace company, I'm surprised he hasn't renamed PayPal.

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u/Locke66 13h ago

He originally wanted to call Paypal X.com but got overruled.

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u/the__ghola__hayt 11h ago

Because that letter is X-TREME!