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Philo Selects Reelgood to Power Content Intelligence and Personalization Across Its Streaming Platform
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Philo Selects Reelgood to Power Content Intelligence and Personalization Across Its Streaming Platform

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Partnership integrates AI-powered metadata into Philo’s machine learning infrastructure to sharpen recommendations and deepen audience understanding SAN FRANCISCO, [April 14, 2026]…
Infographic showing four key statistics from Reelgood's analysis of 7,966 popular films: 9.4-month median time to free streaming, 57% faster window compression since 2020, 2.5-month median for 2025 releases, and 7,966 titles analyzed.
Insights and Trends

The Distribution Arc: How Long Does It Take a Hit Film to Go Free?

Reelgood analyzed 1.93 million availability windows across 240 platforms (US market) to quantify the streaming industry’s best-kept open secret: the windowing clock is accelerating,…
Horizontal bar chart ranking six ad-free streaming services by movies per dollar. Netflix leads at 251, followed by HBO Max (137), Disney+ (110), Hulu (78), Paramount+ (78), and Peacock (74). Prime Video excluded for scale.
Insights and Trends

How Many Movies and TV Shows Do You Get Per Dollar? The 2026 Streaming Value Scorecard

Key Takeaways Four major ad-free streaming services now charge between $18.49 and $19.99 per month. The price gap between Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, and HBO…
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Solution Updates

Reelgood Streaming Data Solution Updates [Mar 2026]

For prior Reelgood streaming data solution updates, please refer to our Feb 2025 post. Product Improvements & New Offerings At Reelgood, providing the most…
HBO titles missing on Prime Video
Insights and Trends

81 HBO Max Movies Are Missing from Prime Video’s Channel. Subscribers Don’t Know.

Key Takeaways Reelgood’s tracking of 2,149 HBO Max movies found 81 confirmed titles available on the standalone HBO Max service but absent from the…
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Insights and Trends

The House of Cards Problem: What Cable TV Taught Me About Streaming Data Quality

A 15-year cable analytics veteran on why streaming data quality failures stay invisible until they aren’t — and what it costs when the model…
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Insights and Trends

The Measurement Gap: What Most Streaming Services Are Still Missing

Next in our series on the Reelgood team’s 2026 Streaming Industry Predictions. Key Takeaways Most streaming services lack real-time visibility into competitors’ and partners’…
Netflix-Paramount Titles v Hours
Insights and Trends

By the Numbers: What a Combined Paramount-WBD Content Library Actually Looks Like

Key Takeaways A combined HBO Max + Paramount+ catalog would deliver ~53,000 content hours, 12% more than Netflix’s ~47,500, before a single new title…
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Insights and Trends

How AI and Machine Learning Will Reshape Streaming in 2026

Next in our series on our team’s 2026 Streaming Industry Predictions. Key Takeaways AI-powered discovery is moving beyond basic genre recommendations toward hyper-personalized interfaces…

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