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Streaming research

Attention has a shape after release, and the opening week is the part everyone sees. These studies measure what happens to it afterwards, title by title, with every figure published. Each study below registers its question before any data is pulled, publishes every row, and is re-run on a schedule.

One opened at twice the other. Three months later it was nine times smaller.

The question: Does a strong opening month predict whether a streaming title still has an audience a quarter later?

What it found: It predicts rank and not retention, and at the top of the chart it inverts. Median retention at three months is 7.3% — and the range runs 2.2% to 44.9%, so the median describes almost nobody.

20 titles screened · 13 with a full three-month window · monthly demand from 2019 · 4 comment corpora against a control · $0.022 of a $0.50 cap · published 2026-10-25 · re-run quarterly · ordering scored again at +6

Every study here is re-run, and the next reading will differ from the last.

Sound Decisions carries each re-run and each correction, with the registered question written before the data is pulled.

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