Datadory notebook
How Competitive Intel Product Teams Use Movies & Entertainment Data
1,744 datasets. Pick your catch. Every guide here is built on what the catalog can actually prove.
1,744 datasets. Pick your catch.
How do you monitor movie and streaming competitors with public data?
Start where a competitive intel team starts: with the change you need to catch. In this industry that is usually one of four things - a rival title overperforming at the weekend box office, a platform picking up or dropping a catalog title, a critic score moving during an opening window, or a distributor quietly gaining share. Datadory catalogs 15 pooled datasets for Movies & Entertainment (14 primary records plus the related TVmaze API), and nine of them qualify for competitive work at relevance 1 or higher; five of those nine are free.
Which datasets expose a rival title's box-office trajectory?
Three trackers cover receipts, and they split cleanly by geography and depth. Box Office Mojo (quality score 8) publishes daily, weekend, weekly, monthly and yearly domestic and international charts as structured HTML tables reaching back to the early 1980s, with per-title gross histories for roughly 20,000+ releases - so a rival franchise's per-day curve through its opening fortnight can be charted against your own slate. The Numbers - Movie Financial Data (quality 7) adds rank, theater counts and per-theater averages on daily domestic charts through an archive founded in 1997, which turns a raw gross into a screens-weighted comparison.
For official context, BFI Industry Data & Insights (quality score 8) publishes weekly Top 15 weekend box-office ODS files for the United Kingdom since 2017 (one file of roughly 13 KB per week, about 52 a year) plus a Statistical Yearbook with editions back to 2002. Pairing the two countries catches territory-level divergence a domestic-only feed hides: a title can fade domestically while holding UK screens.
What does a six-step competitor-tracking workflow look like?
Run the loop in detection-speed order:
Where to go next
Four pages extend this workflow:
Pick up where this leaves off
Every one of these ships with sample rows before you commit to anything.
Box Office Mojo
rank · release_title · prior_period_rank …+8 more
The Numbers - Movie Financial Data
rank · prev_rank · title …+8 more
BFI Industry Data & Insights
Rank · Film · Distributor
JustWatch Streaming Guide
Kaggle Netflix Movies and TV Shows
multi-value splitting on request …+9 more
Rotten Tomatoes Movies & TV Data
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