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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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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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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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Reelgood Streaming Top 10 chart for October 1 to October 7, 2026, ranking ten movies and TV shows: East of Eden on Netflix at #1, Backrooms on HBO Max at #2, Lanterns on HBO Max at #3, Unabomber on Netflix at #4, MobLand on Paramount+ at #5, The Love Hypothesis on Prime Video at #6, Ted Lasso on Apple TV at #7, War on HBO Max at #8, American Horror Story on Hulu at #9, and Obsession on Peacock at #10.
Rankings

Reelgood Streaming Top 10: East of Eden Debuts at #1 as Lanterns and Ted Lasso Reach Finale Week

Here’s your Reelgood Streaming Top 10 (movies & TV) snapshot for October 1-7, 2026: East of Eden debuts at #1 on Netflix, moving last…
Oct 9, 2026
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Insights and Trends

HBO 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…
Oct 8, 2026
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Reelgood graphic headed "The Star Trek catalog is 97 titles. 51 are in no streaming catalog at all," with the line "All 20 official companion titles, all 12 fan productions and all three one-offs have no SVOD, AVOD or TVOD window. Several are free on YouTube. None are licensed." A row of dimmed Star Trek posters runs along the bottom under the label "None of these titles is in a streaming catalog": The Ready Room, After Trek, the Star Trek 25th Anniversary Special, Star Trek Continues, Star Trek Renegades, and the Las Vegas attraction film Star Trek: Klingon Encounter.
Insights and Trends

The 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…
Sep 29, 2026
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Insights and Trends

HBO 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…
Sep 22, 2026
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Reelgood graphic headed "24 US services carry Star Trek. Paramount owns two of them," with the line "Those two hold 128 of the 264 SVOD and AVOD windows. The 19 catalog services Paramount does not own hold the other 136." A row of Star Trek posters runs along the bottom: The Original Series, The Wrath of Khan, The Next Generation, Star Trek (2009), Strange New Worlds, and Trekkies.
Insights and Trends

Paramount 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…
Sep 18, 2026
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Two-row timeline graphic titled Streaming's number one spot changes hands almost every week. Each row shows 26 week squares for a half-year, H1 2025 on top and H1 2026 below, with each square colored by the service of that week's number-one title and the title name printed vertically beneath it. H1 2025 shows 21 different number ones with two-week reigns for Adolescence and 28 Days Later; H1 2026 shows 24 different number ones with Spider-Noir as the only two-week reign. A legend maps services to colors, and a dot marker denotes titles whose first-ever week on the chart was at number one. Source: Reelgood Weekly Streaming Top 10, US.
Insights and Trends

Streaming’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,…
Sep 8, 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.
Insights and Trends

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.
Insights and Trends

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.
Insights and Trends

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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