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Paramount+ Is 30% of Skydance’s Combined Catalog but Carries 47 of Its 100 Most Popular Titles
Put HBO Max, Paramount+ and Discovery+ together and you get 6,395 distinct US titles. HBO Max brings 62% of them. Yet based on activity in the Reelgood app, Paramount+ carries 47 of the 100 most popular titles in that combined catalog with less than a third of the count. In the first post in this…
Read MoreA Third of the Top 100 Movies Were Buy-or-Rent Only in September. Some Waited Months for a Subscription Service.
On an average day between August 24 and September 24, 2026, 32 of the 100 most popular movies in the US were not on any subscription or free streaming service. The only way to watch them was to buy or rent them, almost always through Amazon and Apple TV, and usually through Fandango as well.…
Read MoreHBO Max and Paramount+ Share Just 6 Titles. What That Means for Skydance’s Single Service.
Paramount Skydance closed its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery on October 6, and the combined company, Skydance, says its streaming products will “unify into a single service over time.” This is the first in a short series on what that combined catalog holds. It uses Reelgood’s streaming availability data, which records which titles are on…
Read MoreThe Star Trek Catalog Is 97 Titles. 51 Are in No Streaming Catalog at All.
This is the second of two posts marking Star Trek’s 60th anniversary with Reelgood’s US availability data. Part one covered where Star Trek actually streams and who owns those services. This one covers what is in the 97-title catalog and what is missing from it. Key takeaways Reelgood maps 97 Star Trek titles in the…
Read MoreHBO Max and Paramount+ Lost a Quarter of Their Top 100 Titles. Only One Left While Still Popular.
Since June, HBO Max and Paramount+ have each lost about a quarter of their most popular titles. Only one of those titles left either service while it was still in the Top 100. On an average day between July 24 and August 24, 2026, the two carried a combined 34.4 titles from the US Top…
Read MoreParamount Owns Star Trek. Half Its US Streaming Windows Are Somewhere Else.
This is the first of two posts marking Star Trek’s 60th anniversary with Reelgood’s US availability data. This one covers where Star Trek actually streams and who owns those services. Part two will cover what is in the 97-title catalog and why 51 of those titles are in no streaming catalog at all. Key takeaways…
Read MoreStreaming’s #1 Spot Is a Revolving Door: A Week at the Top Measures Launch, Not Demand
In 79 weeks of Reelgood’s overall Streaming Top 10, no title has held #1 for three consecutive weeks. Of 69 reigns at the top, 59 lasted exactly one week. The “#1 today” badge is streaming’s favorite trophy. Netflix made it famous when it added Top 10 rows to its apps in 2020, and some version…
Read MoreBinge 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 service. Not one lasted more than 5 weeks. The Pitt, released weekly, charted for 17. The binge-versus-weekly debate is usually argued with anecdotes. Eighteen months of Top 10 data turns it…
Read MoreContent 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 discoverability isn’t primarily a design problem. Content discoverability is the degree to which a title that’s licensed and live on a platform actually surfaces in search, browse, or recommendations for the…
Read MoreWhich 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. HBO Max reached 48 spots with just 15. Every streaming service claims momentum. The weekly Top 10 is where those claims meet an audience. We took the 260 overall Top 10…
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