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FAST Viewing Grew 55%. Metadata Quality Now Decides What Gets Discovered

By David Markowitz | July 14, 2026

Graphic titled "This is the depth behind a single title," showing one complete Reelgood title record for Snowpiercer (2020 Series): poster artwork, descriptive facts (type, released date, status, runtime, rating, language, markets), a synopsis, creator/director/composer credits, genres, ML taxonomy tags, cast (67 billed), production companies, episode-level metadata (4 seasons, 40 episodes, with each episode carrying season, episode, title, synopsis and air date), and cross-system identifiers (Reelgood, IMDb, EIDR, and Wikidata, with ID values shortened). Footer notes the catalog covers 4M+ titles across 300+ services and 25+ countries, cleaned and normalized, refreshed twice daily.

FAST viewing grew 55% year over year. The systems that decide which of those titles anyone actually finds are choking on bad metadata. Both facts come from the same place: Amagi’s June 2026 AIRTIME Report, which pairs that 55% jump in viewing hours and a 53% rise in ad impressions with a warning from the…

Announcing Reelgood’s FAST Channel Guide

By Meg Furey | December 14, 2022

Who would’ve thought that in a world where we can watch whatever we want almost whenever we want, consumers would be longing for the linear viewing format of the past? Commonly known as FAST channels (free ad-supported streaming TV), providers like Pluto TV, Xumo, Tubi, Peacock are giving audiences a lean-back experience that serves their…