Posts Tagged ‘2023’
Reelgood’s ‘2023 Year in Streaming’: How Streamers and Their Customers Responded to One of the Video Industry’s Most Disruptive Years Ever
It was another year of profound disruption for the video entertainment industry. Hollywood writers and actors went on strike, paralyzing movie and TV production for more than five months. Wall Street lost its will in regard to the heavy quarterly losses that came with fighting the “Streaming Wars,” forcing large entertainment companies to pivot from…
Read MoreMeet Braden Roberts, Product Manager at Reelgood
At Reelgood, our goal is to create cutting-edge products that not only make streaming easier, but more enjoyable. In many ways, streaming is still such a new frontier. We caught up with Braden Roberts, our Product Manager to reminisce about what it used to be like to find movies we wanted to see and learn…
Read MoreComparing Catalog Hours: HBO Max vs Max
It finally happened — HBO Max became MAX, successfully merging the catalogs of HBO and Discovery+. In an effort to boost subscriptions and app usage and decrease churn, Warner Bros. Discovery completely rebranded the three-year-old service. If you’ve logged in, you’ve already seen the difference. While the app still feels a lot like HBO Max,…
Read MoreMeet Eli Chamberlin, Head of Product & Design at Reelgood
At Reelgood, we’re on a mission to help people stream smarter. Finding something to watch and where to watch it is just scratching the surface. The industry is changing rapidly and it’s crucial to not only stay on top but somehow, a step ahead. We recently caught up with Eli Chamberlin, Head of Product and…
Read MoreWhat You Need to Know About the Hulu and Disney+ Merger
Last week Disney+’s CEO Bob Iger announced that it would merge its app and Hulu’s into a “one-app experience” during a Q2 earnings call with investors. While no specific date has been announced for the merger, it is believed to happen in late 2023. With so much bundling news, let’s untangle what we know about…
Read MoreHow a Surge of Streaming Services Killed Cable
That 2022 and 2023 have been years to watch in streaming is an understatement. With platforms rebranding and bundling and some streaming studios spending recording-breaking amounts on content, this era has been shaping up to be the one that changes how and what we watch. However, this year will also mark a tipping point for…
Read MoreWhat you need to know about Max — the rebranded streaming service from Warner Bros. Discovery
Last week it was announced that HBO Max will now be simply known as – Max. To reach a wider audience with its streaming service, Warner Bros. Discovery believes that a rebrand is necessary and that by stripping the service of its legacy brand HBO, the hope is that the new combined network will attract…
Read MoreAre Streaming Platforms Struggling to Produce High-Quality Content?
Last week, Netflix released Beef, a road rage revenge series starring Ali Wong and Steven Yeun. Viewers and critics alike are praising the series calling it one of the best shows in years and even going so far as claiming it to be the antidote to ambient tv. While the writing, producing, and acting are…
Read MoreMeet Isabel Riofrío, Reelgood’s Marketing and PR Analyst
At Reelgood, we believe that we are shaping the future of tv. How people watch tv — and movies— is one of the things that interests us most and drives our product forward in an effort to help people discover content they actually enjoy. We recently checked in with Isabel Riofrío, our Marketing and PR…
Read MoreHow do streaming platforms get their names on tv remote controls?
Go ahead, and look down at your remote. See something familiar? More than likely, in addition to the standard volume plus and minus and number keypad, you have a few familiar names staring back at you: Hulu, Netflix, Disney+, and Prime Video? While it may seem like good fortune to find the names of the…
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