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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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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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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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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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Reelgood Streaming Top 10 chart for August 27 to September 2, 2026, ranking ten movies and TV shows: Furious on Hulu at #1, The Whisper Man on Netflix at #2, 9 to 5 on Prime Video at #3, Lanterns on HBO Max at #4, Reacher on Prime Video at #5, Ted Lasso on Apple TV at #6, Dark Matter on Apple TV at #7, Obsession on Peacock at #8, Silo on Apple TV at #9, and Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu on Disney+ at #10.
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Reelgood Streaming Top 10: Furious Reclaims #1 as Its Finale Airs, Three Premieres Crowd the Chart

Here’s your Reelgood Streaming Top 10 (movies & TV) snapshot for August 27-September 2, 2026: Furious jumps from #5 to #1 on Hulu the…
Sep 3, 2026
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Scatter chart titled "Every UK Streaming Platform Has a Different Content Personality" plotting genre variety on the vertical axis against narrative tag variety on the horizontal axis for select streaming platforms in the UK. The vertical axis runs from Genre Specialist at the bottom to Genre Generalist at the top. The horizontal axis runs from Theme Specialist on the left to Theme Generalist on the right. Four quadrants are labelled Diverse Curators, Everything Everywhere, Focused Storytellers, and Genre Encyclopedias. In the Diverse Curators quadrant: Channel 5 and BBC iPlayer. In the Everything Everywhere quadrant: ITVX, Prime Video, and NOW. Near the centre on the theme specialist side: Disney+ and Netflix. In the Genre Encyclopedias quadrant: Paramount+ and HBO Max. In the Focused Storytellers quadrant: Channel 4 and U. Footnote reads that the chart is based on distribution of top-3 genres and top-4 tags per title, including movies and TV series, from the Reelgood content streaming dataset as of July 2026.
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How Alike Are UK Streaming Platforms? Genre vs. Tag Similarity Compared

A crime drama about a small-town investigation and a crime drama about corporate corruption share a genre and almost nothing else. Tags are where…
Aug 10, 2026
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Diverging bar chart titled Drama moved one spot, the stories inside it moved dozens, split into two labeled sections. The genre view section shows a single small bar for Drama at plus 1, from 167 to 168 weekly Top 10 spots. The tag view section, labeled inside those same Drama titles, shows relationships at plus 23 (33 to 56), doctor at plus 12 (4 to 16), and superhero at plus 12 (0 to 12) in green, and government-and-politics at minus 16 (22 to 6), social-inequality at minus 18 (18 to 0), and identity-and-growth at minus 20 (29 to 9) in red. Source: Reelgood Weekly Streaming Top 10, US.
Insights and Trends

What a Genre Dashboard Can’t See: The Case for Tag-Level Demand Data

Genre data says streaming barely changed this year: Drama held 167 of 260 weekly Top 10 spots in H1 2025 and 168 in H1…
Aug 4, 2026
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Graphic titled "Where the Spider-Man Universe Has Streamed" showing posters for ten Spider-Man films in release order, each labeled with the number of US and UK streaming services that have carried it. Spider-Man (2002), US 14 and UK 8. Spider-Man 2 (2004), US 11 and UK 8. Spider-Man 3 (2007), US 15 and UK 6. The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), US 8 and UK 8. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014), US 7 and UK 6. Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), US 9 and UK 5. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), US 2 and UK 5. Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019), US 2 and UK 5. Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), US 2 and UK 4. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023), US 3 and UK 3. Source: Reelgood streaming availability data, July 2026.
Insights and Trends

All 10 Spider-Man Films Are Streaming Right Now. In the US, That’s a First.

Key Takeaways All 10 films in the Spider-Man universe are streaming on subscription (SVOD) or free services (AVOD) right now, in both the US…
Jul 31, 2026
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