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The 2024 Streaming Power Rankings
We asked 29 critics, executives, agents, producers, and analysts who they think is winning the streaming wars — and who’s struggling to survive.
In addition to adding new customers and providing a steady serving of hits ( Baby Reindeer, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and old episodes of Suits), it’s also making real money — over $2 billion in the most recent fiscal quarter — while competitors desperately try to stop hemorrhaging red ink. Overall, while critics and our industry panel were sort of meh on Prime — particularly its perennially awful user interface — the streamer’s undeniable momentum over the past year plus its huge reach with broad-based hits allowed it to move up two spots in our ranking, the biggest upward leap of any service. Max finds itself slipping to third mainly because our industry panel bailed hard (dropping it from first to third) and because HBO has been in one of its occasional “slow” periods of late where there’s more focus on what’s leaving ( Succession, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Barry, A Black Lady Sketch Show, Winning Time, Our Flag Means Death) than on what’s new.
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