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HBO Max and Paramount+ Lost a Quarter of Their Hits. Almost None of Them Left the Service.

By David Markowitz | September 22, 2026

Reelgood graphic headlined "HBO Max and Paramount+ lost a quarter of their hits. The titles never left." A line chart tracks four US streaming services across three 30-day windows from May to August 2026, with HBO Max and Paramount+ falling and Disney+ and Tubi rising. The two services carried a combined 45.8 US Top 100 titles on an average day in June and 34.4 in August, and exactly one of those titles left either service.

Since June, HBO Max and Paramount+ have each lost about a quarter of their most popular titles. Almost none of those titles left the service. On an average day between July 24 and August 24, 2026, the two carried a combined 34.4 titles from the US Top 100 movies and Top 100 shows, down from…

Introducing the Streaming Service Popularity Index: Who’s Actually Carrying Streaming’s Demand

By David Markowitz | August 11, 2026

Full ranking table from Reelgood's Streaming Service Popularity Index for June 24 to July 24, 2026, listing 19 US streaming services by rank, average titles in the US Top 100, Streaming Ranking Index score (0-10), and month-over-month change. Netflix ranks first at 9.78, followed by Prime Video at 8.82 and HBO Max at 7.23.

Netflix holds an average of 34.2 titles in the US Top 100 movies and shows at any given time. Philo holds 23.6, a smaller number built almost entirely from cable networks it carries rather than content it produces, and it just posted the biggest month-over-month jump on the board. That gap and that rise are…