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 accurate and comprehensive TV & movie metadata and streaming title availability data is our primary focus.

Reelgood indexes 285,000+ movies and over 70,000 TV shows globally.  That’s a job in itself.  

But critically, this content moves to and from different services constantly.  And new content is continually being released, from the latest blockbusters and indie films to new episodes of TV shows – and new TV shows themselves – dropping daily.

Our Data Collection, Machine Learning, Analytics and Data Quality teams update and maintain this dataset continually.  

Here’s a quick snapshot of what’s new across the platform. We’ve focused on accuracy, coverage, and global expansion, so your teams have cleaner, more complete data every day.

Expanded streaming source coverage: Roku add-on channels (US)

Reelgood now tracks content available through Roku add-on channels in the US market. This includes 20+ Roku add-ons, such as: HBO Max via Roku, Paramount+ via Roku, Apple TV via Roku, Starz via Roku, Crunchyroll via Roku, AMC+ via Roku, etc.

Why it matters: 

Add-on channels are a growing and often overlooked segment of the streaming landscape. Tracking this layer is essential for two reasons: it completes the competitive intelligence picture, and it supports licensing compliance — specifically, flagging whether an add-on channel’s catalog matches or diverges from its standalone counterpart.

Expanded streaming source coverage: Howdy via Prime Video (US)

Reelgood now tracks Howdy as a streaming source on Prime Video in the US.

Why it matters: 

On March 25, 2026, Roku officially launched Howdy on Prime Video, marking the first time the service has expanded beyond the Roku platform. This is an industry-relevant launch: it signals Roku’s shift toward cross-platform distribution and puts a Roku-owned content product directly inside Amazon’s ecosystem. Reelgood added coverage within 2 days of launch.

Improved accuracy of historical availability data

Erroneous availability records have been removed and incorrectly fragmented availability windows consolidated.

Why it matters: 

Historical availability data is foundational to licensing analysis, competitive benchmarking, and content strategy. Incorrect gaps or outliers in availability windows can distort trend analysis and misrepresent how long a title has been on a given service. This update makes both current and historical availability data more reliable across our service coverage.

Removed ~2,500 duplicate episodes (<0.1% of total episodes)

Why it matters: 

Duplicate records skew episode counts, catalog size metrics, and any analysis built on top of them. Removing them improves the accuracy and ensures clients are working from a trustworthy dataset.

Prior Data Solution Updates

Below are when a number of prior updates were released to Reelgood customers:

February, 2026

TV & Movie Metadata Improvement

• Taxonomy quality and coverage improvements

We improved genre and tag (i.e., sub-genre or keyword) coverage across Reelgood’s movie and TV catalog – especially for titles that previously had little or no taxonomy – while also removing incorrect assignments and refining existing ones for consistency. In addition, we improved ‘tag order’ for improved relevancy.

We did this by using title, description, release date, and taxonomy signals from streaming services, combined with our machine learning (ML) models trained to clean, normalize, and optimize taxonomy labeling at scale.

We reviewed our entire catalog in a single day with our ML-powered automation and analysis technology (vastly superior to doing this manually, as legacy providers typically do). Through this refinement process to our architecture, we increased both metadata coverage and improved overall taxonomy coverage, quality and relevance.

Importantly, our flexible taxonomy architecture lets us review/update our catalog on demand with any changes needed to our taxonomy

For example,

• • Movie genre coverage increased: 95% ➜ 99%
  • Movie tag coverage increased: 38% ➜ 99%
  • Movie tag quality increased:

• Challengers

• • • • Prior tags: (sports, mature, friendship)
      • Current tags: (sports, mature, friendship, dating)

• The Dark Crystal

• • • Prior tags: (supernatural, alien)
    • Current tags: (magic, alien)

• • TV show genre coverage increased: 91% ➜ 97%
  • TV show tag  coverage increased: 33% ➜ 96%
  • TV show tag quality increased:

• The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon

• • • Prior tags: (futuristic, zombie, apocalypse)
    • Current tags: (zombie, apocalypse, survival, monster)

• Why it matters: Genres and tags are the backbone of content discovery, recommendation systems, and audience segmentation. Taxonomy quality and coverage make Reelgood’s genre and tag data reliable at scale. Clients building recommendation logic, genre-based reporting, or audience profiles will see a material improvement in output quality.

 

Streaming Service Updates

• Since December 9, 2025, Hulu (via Disney+) has been supported as a separate source ID in the U.S. This is in addition to the existing Disney+ and Hulu standalone services, and anticipates the planned integration of Hulu and Disney+ in 2026.

Quality & Coverage Improvements

• Ongoing historical data corrections continue.

What’s the State of Your Entertainment Data?

Is your metadata and title availability solution comprehensive, accurate – and continually maintained and updated? Struggling with duplicate content and out-of-date information?  See how you can eliminate your streaming data frustrations; reach out and let’s explore how Reelgood can bring machine learning level speed and accuracy to your operation.