When Project Hail Mary Hit #1, The Martian Wasn’t Streaming: Content Intelligence Takeaways for Streaming Marketers

Chart titled "Missed Opportunities" comparing two movies side by side. Left: Project Hail Mary poster, labeled "#1 Box Office," with screenwriter Drew Goddard and book author Andy Weir listed. Right: The Martian poster, labeled "Not Streaming." Reelgood logo and source line "Source: Reelgood catalog data, March 2026" at the bottom.

When Project Hail Mary hit theaters and climbed to the top of the box office, the obvious follow-up watch was The Martian. Same author, Andy Weir. Same kind of stranded-astronaut, science-under-pressure story. But Houston had a problem; it wasn’t streaming anywhere. That gap, and how often it repeats across the industry, was the center of…

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

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.

A streaming platform we work with spent months struggling to explain what made its service different. The marketing team had theories. None of them stuck. Then it ran its catalog through Reelgood’s data and found something it had never noticed: it held the largest horror library of any major streamer. Nobody internally had framed the…

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

Reelgood bar chart of the largest year-over-year genre changes across major streaming catalogs, 2025 to 2026, showing gains and declines by service.

Over the past few months I have sat in on a string of conversations with content strategy, acquisition, and sales leaders at production companies and independent distributors. The companies could not have been more different: a Canadian studio selling scripted series into Europe, a mid-size studio building a slate for underrepresented audiences, an indie distributor…

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