Posts Tagged ‘licensing windows’
Paramount Owns Star Trek. Half Its US Streaming Windows Are Somewhere Else.
This is the first of two posts marking Star Trek’s 60th anniversary with Reelgood’s US availability data. This one covers where Star Trek actually streams and who owns those services. Part two will cover what is in the 97-title catalog and why 51 of those titles are in no streaming catalog at all. Key takeaways…
Read MoreWhen Project Hail Mary Hit #1, The Martian Wasn’t Streaming: Content Intelligence Takeaways for Streaming Marketers
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…
Read MoreRights Windows Say What Should Happen. Streaming Availability Data Shows What Did.
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…
Read MoreNew Releases Drive Library Demand. Availability Data Reveals the Missed Licensing Windows.
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…
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