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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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Bar chart comparing gaining Top 10 tag appearances in H1 2025 versus H1 2026. Relationships rises from 41 spots to 61, workplace from 24 to 37, secluded-locations from 21 to 33, small-town from 4 to 20, friendship from 9 to 18, and doctor from 4 to 16. Source: Reelgood Weekly Streaming Top 10, US.
Insights and Trends

Doctors, Small Towns, and Relationships: What’s Winning Streaming’s Top 10 in 2026

The relationships tag rose from 41 to 61 of the 260 spots in Reelgood’s weekly overall Top 10 year over year, spread across 26…
Jul 20, 2026
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Bar chart comparing declining Top 10 tag appearances in H1 2025 versus H1 2026. Government-and-politics falls from 41 spots to 18, detectives-and-investigation from 44 to 27, identity-and-growth from 33 to 10, wealth-and-privilege from 26 to 15, social-inequality from 18 to 0, and technology from 14 to 4. Source: Reelgood Weekly Streaming Top 10, US.
Insights and Trends

Politics Fell Out of Streaming’s Top 10: The Biggest Thematic Decline of 2026

Titles tagged government-and-politics held 41 of the 260 spots in Reelgood’s weekly overall Top 10 in the first half of 2025. In the first…
Jul 16, 2026
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Reelgood Streaming Top 10 chart for July 9 to July 16, 2026, ranking ten movies and TV shows: Project Hail Mary on Prime Video at #1, House of the Dragon on HBO Max at #2, Silo on Apple TV at #3, The Sheep Detectives on Prime Video at #4, Widow's Bay on Apple TV at #5, Love Island USA on Peacock at #6, Shipwrecked: Nightmare at Sea on Netflix at #7, Ready or Not 2: Here I Come on Hulu at #8, I Will Find You on Netflix at #9, and Troy on AMC+ at #10.
Rankings

Reelgood Streaming Top 10: Project Hail Mary Holds #1, Silo Climbs to #3, and Three New Titles Reset the Back Half

Here’s your Reelgood Streaming Top 10 (movies & TV) snapshot for July 9–16, 2026: The top of the chart barely moved. Project Hail Mary…
Jul 16, 2026
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Graphic titled "This is the depth behind a single title," showing one complete Reelgood title record for Snowpiercer (2020 Series): poster artwork, descriptive facts (type, released date, status, runtime, rating, language, markets), a synopsis, creator/director/composer credits, genres, ML taxonomy tags, cast (67 billed), production companies, episode-level metadata (4 seasons, 40 episodes, with each episode carrying season, episode, title, synopsis and air date), and cross-system identifiers (Reelgood, IMDb, EIDR, and Wikidata, with ID values shortened). Footer notes the catalog covers 4M+ titles across 300+ services and 25+ countries, cleaned and normalized, refreshed twice daily.
Insights and Trends

FAST Viewing Grew 55%. Metadata Quality Now Decides What Gets Discovered

FAST viewing grew 55% year over year.  The systems that decide which of those titles anyone actually finds are choking on bad metadata.  Both…
Jul 14, 2026
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Reelgood historical availability timeline for Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning in the United States, 2025 to 2026. Horizontal bars show each service's streaming window: Prime Video, Paramount+, and MGM+ under SVOD; Apple TV Store and Fandango at Home under Buy / Rent; DIRECTV Stream and fuboTV under vMVPD. Windows begin and end at different points across the timeline.
Insights and Trends

Rights Windows Say What Should Happen. Streaming Availability Data Shows What Did.

A studio’s compliance team recently walked me through how they confirm a licensed title came down when its window closed. The process: someone opens…
Jul 6, 2026
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Reelgood metadata includes awards data at the title level, covering both winners and nominees tied directly to each movie and show, from the Academy Awards and Golden Globes to SXSW and Sundance Film Festivals
Solution Updates

Reelgood Streaming Data Solution Updates [Jun 2026]

For prior Reelgood streaming data solution updates, please refer to our Updated Taxonomy post and Mar 2025 post. Product Improvements & New Offerings At…
Jun 29, 2026
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