Streaming Industry Insights

Streaming industry analysis and & insights, product updates, and weekly rankings powered by comprehensive Reelgood global metadata and title availability data.

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US SVOD (streaming) content vs Non-SVOD content (AVOD, TVOD, TVE)
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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Recent Posts
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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Genre identity heatmap showing genre share as a percent of total catalog across major and mid-tier streamers. HBO Max Documentary above 40%, Disney+ Comedy 41% and Family 52%, BritBox Documentary 51% with Drama 39% and Crime 27%, and AMC+ Horror nearly equal to Drama. Source: Reelgood streaming availability data, June 2026.
Insights and Trends

Every Streaming Service Has a Fingerprint. Do You Know Yours?

A streaming platform we work with spent months struggling to explain what made its service different. The marketing team had theories. None of them…
Jun 24, 2026
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Grid titled "Great Titles, Not Streaming Anywhere" showing nine films with their TVOD-only availability periods: Inception (29 days), Office Space (274 days), Cape Fear (238/59 days), Oppenheimer (290 days), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (93 days), 28 Days Later (92 days), Gone Girl (143 days), Lord of the Flies (212 days), and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (458 days). Source: Reelgood availability data, April 2026.
Insights and Trends

New Releases Drive Library Demand. Availability Data Reveals the Missed Licensing Windows.

Library demand spikes when new titles release. Streaming availability data is how licensing teams catch those windows before they close. Oppenheimer won Best Picture…
Jun 21, 2026
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Reelgood bar chart of the largest year-over-year genre changes across major streaming catalogs, 2025 to 2026, showing gains and declines by service.
Insights and Trends

What Streaming Buyers Are Actually Acquiring: How to Read Catalog Changes for Licensing and Sales

Over the past few months I have sat in on a string of conversations with content strategy, acquisition, and sales leaders at production companies…
Jun 9, 2026
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