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Before we dive into he streaming ratings this week, check out my two articles from last week.  – “U.S. Streaming Subscriber Estimates For Q4 Of 2021”. This is my semi-regular take on the number of paid, U.S. subscribers for the major streamers. Here’s the key visual: If you want the gory, “how did I make these” details, click here to read the whole thing. – At the Ankler, I wrote

Since most of my readers are fairly devoted followers of the streaming wars, I bet most of you think this week’s biggest story is the titanic showdown between Turning Red and The Adam Project.  And you’d be wrong! The bigger story “content”-wise in my mind—and I love to zig when others zag—is Prime Video airing, er, streaming the 57th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards on Monday 7-March! This is

I know it’s April Fool’s Day today, but as much as I love this holiday, this newsletter is still serious-ish journalism, so I’m not going to make up anything. In my experience, bad statistics just get taken as fact more often than real, often boring truth. (You may have seen that quote “that a lie travels halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on”, that’s often

The international content wave is coming! Of the 39 streaming shows or films released during the week of 14-March, 16 were non-English language. For the week of 1-April, 10 of the 21 were non-English language. I wish I had been collecting this data for longer, but c’est le vie. I’m putting my data assistant on it. To be clear, this international wave started building momentum well before Squid Game hit

After what felt like a few slow weeks—or months—without huge news, this week had some pretty big developments. MGM and Amazon is happening! Netflix is testing their strongest response to password sharing yet! Disney got Indian Premiere League rights! With all that news, my “most important story of the week” feature will return next week.  But for now, it’s time for some streaming ratings. There was a bit of a

This week represents a fun squaring off of streamers. Not the usual battle of the titans–Netflix versus Disney+–but Hulu and Prime Video, featuring two releases couldn’t be more different. Let’s dig in. (Reminder: The streaming ratings report compiles data from Nielsen’s weekly top ten viewership ranks, TV Time trend data, Netflix datecdotes and hours viewed data, Netflix Top Ten lists, Google Trends and IMDb to determine the most popular content.

Before we start, let’s admit it: our minds aren’t really on streaming ratings right now, are they?  The tragic news in Ukraine will likely draw your focus away from entertainment news. I don’t blame you. I’m there too.  Still, I’m going to write this week’s report, because the streaming world isn’t slowing down. Yes, there are more important topics, but sometimes distractions like this are worth it. I also published

Looking back on 2021, it probably ended up “weirder” than 2020. In 2020, theaters shuttered due to the pandemic, so nothing happened after March, outside of Disney and Warner Bros. trying to release Tenet and Mulan. Last year, in contrast, Warner Bros tried to release all their films day-and-date on streaming. Disney had some films go straight-to-streaming, while others went to theaters, and others had a day-and-date PVOD (premium video-on-demand)