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Insights and Trends

The Streaming Iceberg: Why 88% of Movies Aren’t on Netflix, Disney+, or HBO Max

If you’re an executive at a major streaming service, here’s a stat that should make you rethink your content strategy:  Only about 12% of movies in active distribution are available…
November 21, 2025 · 5 min read
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Solution Capabilities

Where Was That Title Last Year? Why Historical Streaming Availability Data Is a Strategic Necessity

Key Takeaways Historical streaming TV & movie availability data provides the context that licensing teams, rights managers, and analysts need…
Feb 24, 2026 · 7 min read
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Legacy Libraries Create Catalog Depth
Insights and Trends

Most Streaming Catalogs Are Shallow. These Three Platforms Are the Exception

Key Takeaways Most streaming catalogs are shallow. Across almost all major platforms, 72% to 89% of TV shows ran for…
Feb 10, 2026 · 4 min read
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ML-based Semantic Analysis
Technology

The Data Whisperer: Reelgood’s ML Algorithm for Flawless Content Matching

For major streaming services and consumer tech platforms, achieving an accurate, real-time picture of global video content is the ultimate…
Nov 10, 2025 · 8 min read
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Graphic titled Released weekly, a show holds the chart for its whole season, split into two zones by release model. The released-weekly zone shows five large posters, each with a service logo chip (HBO Max on The Pitt and Euphoria, Apple TV on Shrinking, Prime Video on The Boys and Fallout) and week badges: The Pitt at 17 weeks, Shrinking at 11, Euphoria at 8, The Boys at 7, and Fallout at 7. The released-all-at-once zone, led by the Netflix logo and showing its 25 binge-drop shows at 2.1 weeks each with none past 5, has a wall of 15 small posters including His & Hers, The Boroughs, Beef, The Four Seasons, and The Night Agent, a chip reading plus 10 more shows, and a note that Netflix's two staggered releases, Stranger Things (3 volumes) and Bridgerton (2 parts), are excluded. Source: Reelgood Weekly Streaming Top 10, US.
Insights and Trends

Binge Buys a Week. Weekly Buys a Season: What Release Strategy Does to Top 10 Staying Power

Netflix put 27 different shows on Reelgood’s weekly TV Top 10 in the first half of 2026, almost twice as many as any other…
Aug 31, 2026
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Reelgood Streaming Top 10 chart for August 20 to August 26, 2026, ranking ten movies and TV shows: Lanterns on HBO Max at #1, Ted Lasso on Apple TV at #2, Don't Say Good Luck on Netflix at #3, Reacher on Prime Video at #4, Furious on Hulu at #5, Obsession on Peacock at #6, Silo on Apple TV at #7, 9 to 5 on Philo at #8, Lioness on Paramount+ at #9, and Sterling Point on Prime Video at #10.
Rankings

Reelgood Streaming Top 10: Lanterns Takes #1 in Its First Full Week as 9 to 5 Charts After Dolly Parton’s Death

Here’s your Reelgood Streaming Top 10 (movies & TV) snapshot for August 20-26, 2026: Lanterns climbs from #5 to #1 on HBO Max in…
Aug 28, 2026
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A search results interface showing a query for "crime dramas" returning three titles, The Shawshank Redemption, The Godfather, and Breaking Bad, each marked "Found" with their real genre and tag metadata displayed. A fourth title sits in a dashed panel marked "Missing," live on three platforms but excluded from results because it has no genre or tags on file.
Insights and Trends

Content Discoverability Isn’t a Recommendation Problem. It’s a Metadata Problem.

A streaming platform can rebuild its entire browse and recommendation experience and still leave viewers unable to find what they’re looking for. That’s because…
Aug 28, 2026
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Graphic titled Two ways to win the Top 10, many titles briefly or a few for months, split into two labeled zones. The Netflix zone, labeled the volume game with 66 spots from 37 titles at about 1.8 weeks each, shows a grid of 15 title posters including The Boroughs, Remarkably Bright Creatures, The Crash, His & Hers, Beef, Bridgerton, and The Night Agent, with a chip reading plus 22 more titles. The HBO Max zone, labeled the staying power game with 48 spots from 15 titles at 3.2 weeks each, shows five larger posters with week badges: The Pitt at 15 weeks, Euphoria at 7, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms at 6, One Battle After Another at 5, and If I Had Legs I'd Kick You at 2. Source: Reelgood Weekly Streaming Top 10, US.
Insights and Trends

Which Streamers Own the Top 10? Netflix Leads on Volume, HBO Max on Staying Power

Netflix needed 37 different titles to hold its 66 weekly Top 10 spots in the first half of 2026, more than any other service.…
Aug 25, 2026
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Chart titled "Missed Opportunities" comparing two movies side by side. Left: Project Hail Mary poster, labeled "#1 Box Office," with screenwriter Drew Goddard and book author Andy Weir listed. Right: The Martian poster, labeled "Not Streaming." Reelgood logo and source line "Source: Reelgood catalog data, March 2026" at the bottom.
Insights and Trends

When Project Hail Mary Hit #1, The Martian Wasn’t Streaming: Content Intelligence Takeaways for Streaming Marketers

When Project Hail Mary hit theaters and climbed to the top of the box office, the obvious follow-up watch was The Martian. Same author,…
Aug 19, 2026
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Full ranking table from Reelgood's Streaming Service Popularity Index for June 24 to July 24, 2026, listing 19 US streaming services by rank, average titles in the US Top 100, Streaming Ranking Index score (0-10), and month-over-month change. Netflix ranks first at 9.78, followed by Prime Video at 8.82 and HBO Max at 7.23.
Insights and Trends

Introducing the Streaming Service Popularity Index: Who’s Actually Carrying Streaming’s Demand

Netflix holds an average of 34.2 titles in the US Top 100 movies and shows at any given time. Philo holds 23.6, a smaller…
Aug 11, 2026
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