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How Alike Are UK Streaming Platforms? Genre vs. Tag Similarity Compared

By Daria Granja | August 10, 2026

Scatter chart titled "Every UK Streaming Platform Has a Different Content Personality" plotting genre variety on the vertical axis against narrative tag variety on the horizontal axis for select streaming platforms in the UK. The vertical axis runs from Genre Specialist at the bottom to Genre Generalist at the top. The horizontal axis runs from Theme Specialist on the left to Theme Generalist on the right. Four quadrants are labelled Diverse Curators, Everything Everywhere, Focused Storytellers, and Genre Encyclopedias. In the Diverse Curators quadrant: Channel 5 and BBC iPlayer. In the Everything Everywhere quadrant: ITVX, Prime Video, and NOW. Near the centre on the theme specialist side: Disney+ and Netflix. In the Genre Encyclopedias quadrant: Paramount+ and HBO Max. In the Focused Storytellers quadrant: Channel 4 and U. Footnote reads that the chart is based on distribution of top-3 genres and top-4 tags per title, including movies and TV series, from the Reelgood content streaming dataset as of July 2026.

A crime drama about a small-town investigation and a crime drama about corporate corruption share a genre and almost nothing else. Tags are where that difference lives, and it’s why genre-only comparisons miss so much of what’s actually distinctive about a catalogue. Reelgood tracks real-time and historical streaming availability and metadata across most platforms in…

What a Genre Dashboard Can’t See: The Case for Tag-Level Demand Data

By David Markowitz | August 4, 2026

Diverging bar chart titled Drama moved one spot, the stories inside it moved dozens, split into two labeled sections. The genre view section shows a single small bar for Drama at plus 1, from 167 to 168 weekly Top 10 spots. The tag view section, labeled inside those same Drama titles, shows relationships at plus 23 (33 to 56), doctor at plus 12 (4 to 16), and superhero at plus 12 (0 to 12) in green, and government-and-politics at minus 16 (22 to 6), social-inequality at minus 18 (18 to 0), and identity-and-growth at minus 20 (29 to 9) in red. Source: Reelgood Weekly Streaming Top 10, US.

Genre data says streaming barely changed this year: Drama held 167 of 260 weekly Top 10 spots in H1 2025 and 168 in H1 2026. But look closer – tag (sub-genre) data shows 82% of the stories behind that number turned over. Between the first half of 2025 and the first half of 2026, US…

The TV Thriller Correction: Thriller Shows Lost Half Their Top 10 Presence in a Year

By David Markowitz | July 27, 2026

Bar chart titled The thriller correction happened on TV, not in movies, comparing thriller genre appearances in H1 2025 versus H1 2026. Thriller shows on the weekly shows Top 10 fall from 122 appearances to 56, labeled minus 54 percent. Thriller movies on the weekly movies Top 10 hold at 131 versus 132, labeled flat. Source: Reelgood Weekly Streaming Top 10, US.

Thriller appearances on Reelgood’s weekly TV shows Top 10 fell from 122 in H1 2025 to 56 in H1 2026, a 54% decline. Movie thrillers didn’t move. Television thrillers just went through a correction, and the chart’s biggest genre never flinched: Drama held 167 of 260 overall Top 10 spots in H1 2025 and 168…

Politics Fell Out of Streaming’s Top 10: The Biggest Thematic Decline of 2026

By David Markowitz | July 16, 2026

Bar chart comparing declining Top 10 tag appearances in H1 2025 versus H1 2026. Government-and-politics falls from 41 spots to 18, detectives-and-investigation from 44 to 27, identity-and-growth from 33 to 10, wealth-and-privilege from 26 to 15, social-inequality from 18 to 0, and technology from 14 to 4. Source: Reelgood Weekly Streaming Top 10, US.

Titles tagged government-and-politics held 41 of the 260 spots in Reelgood’s weekly overall Top 10 in the first half of 2025. In the first half of 2026, they held 18. Streaming’s political moment is over. That’s the clearest finding from comparing the first half of 2026 against the first half of 2025 in Reelgood’s weekly…

Reelgood Streaming Data Solution Updates [Jun 2026]

By David Markowitz | June 29, 2026

Reelgood metadata includes awards data at the title level, covering both winners and nominees tied directly to each movie and show, from the Academy Awards and Golden Globes to SXSW and Sundance Film Festivals

For prior Reelgood streaming data solution updates, please refer to our Updated Taxonomy post and Mar 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 now indexes 288,806 movies and 72,011 TV shows globally. Keeping…

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

By David Markowitz | June 24, 2026

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…

Reelgood Streaming Data Solution Updates [Mar 2026]

By David Markowitz | March 30, 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. …