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Rights Windows Say What Should Happen. Streaming Availability Data Shows What Did.

By David Markowitz | July 6, 2026

Reelgood historical availability timeline for Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning in the United States, 2025 to 2026. Horizontal bars show each service's streaming window: Prime Video, Paramount+, and MGM+ under SVOD; Apple TV Store and Fandango at Home under Buy / Rent; DIRECTV Stream and fuboTV under vMVPD. Windows begin and end at different points across the timeline.

A studio’s compliance team recently walked me through how they confirm a licensed title came down when its window closed. The process: someone opens the platform, searches for the title, and checks whether it is still there. If a partner was supposed to have pulled a title last quarter, they send an acknowledgment letter and…

New Releases Drive Library Demand. Availability Data Reveals the Missed Licensing Windows.

By David Markowitz | June 21, 2026

Grid titled "Great Titles, Not Streaming Anywhere" showing nine films with their TVOD-only availability periods: Inception (29 days), Office Space (274 days), Cape Fear (238/59 days), Oppenheimer (290 days), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (93 days), 28 Days Later (92 days), Gone Girl (143 days), Lord of the Flies (212 days), and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (458 days). Source: Reelgood availability data, April 2026.

Library demand spikes when new titles release. Streaming availability data is how licensing teams catch those windows before they close. Oppenheimer won Best Picture in March 2024. For 290 days – and counting, it hasn’t been available on any SVOD or AVOD streaming service. That’s not a rare anomaly. Across Reelgood’s availability database, major titles…