Help your users discover what’s coming next
With our new StartDateStart and StartDateEnd parameters, developers can now filter content based on when a movie or TV title will become available on a major streaming service in the U.S. This gives your products the power to surface upcoming availability windows, not just what’s streaming today. It also helps users discover titles before they begin trending across streaming platforms nationwide.
It’s not just originals but it is also older titles that have found themselves on streaming platforms. Never seen the movie Pulp Fiction from 1994? Stream it this month on Peacock. Looking for other Academy Awards Best Picture nominees? Filter and see Munich is on Peacock too or The Shawshank Redemption is out on Paramount Plus.
Looking for new content? HBOMax is debuting an original new movie with Academy and Emmy Award winner Allison Janney May 29th called Miss You, Love You. Missed that big movie in theaters? See Project Hail Mary coming to Amazon Prime Video on the 20th.
Also, anyone who likes director Gus Van Sant would want to see his latest release Dead Man’s Wire that was just in theaters in January but is now on Netflix on May 28th. Speaking of Netflix, the triple MMA live event with Ronda Rousey vs. Gina Carano as the main event will be airing on May 17th. Your users can be informed about new movies, TV shows, seasons, live events, and even new episodes by using the Fabric Data Origin Nexus APIs.
Why It Matters
Drive Consumer Engagement
Give users a reason to return by highlighting titles arriving soon on their favorite streaming platforms. “Coming This Week” and “Available Next Friday” are high-intent discovery moments that increase repeat visits and session time.
Improve Watchlist & Queue Building
Help audiences plan ahead by allowing them to save upcoming titles before release. Users can add anticipated movies and shows to personal queues, increasing retention and platform stickiness. This kind of forward-looking content availability tracking turns passive browsing into planned viewing.
Power DTC Discovery Pages
Create dynamic "Coming Soon to Streaming" pages for direct-to-consumer experiences, publisher sites, entertainment apps, and streaming guides. Perfect for editorial hubs, recommendation engines, and homepage features. The same cross-platform availability data that powers these pages can feed into broader streaming catalog trends analysis for content and editorial teams.
Support Smarter Notifications
Trigger personalized alerts when a title is about to hit a streaming service. This enables better CRM campaigns, push notifications, and email engagement strategies. Pairing availability date filters with audience demand trends lets you prioritize notifications around the titles users are most likely to act on.
Enhance Editorial & Promotional Campaigns
Surface upcoming releases for newsletters, social campaigns, and seasonal promotions like "What's New This Month on Streaming" with real-time content insights driven by API accuracy. Teams working across media pricing and plan data can use the same availability signals to align promotional timing with platform launch windows.
Better Search & Recommendation Logic
Use availability windows to improve recommendation engines by prioritizing titles users can watch soon, increasing conversion from discovery to viewing. Combined with platform availability insights, this creates a discovery layer that reflects not just what exists in the catalog but what is actually actionable for the user right now.
Built for Developers
In the Origin Nexus Entertainment Search API, using StartDateStart and StartDateEnd, your team can easily query titles becoming available within a specific date range across major U.S. streaming platforms, making integration simple and highly actionable. Combine it with other filters such as genres, streaming platforms, themes, and program type.
Whether you're building content discovery experiences, watchlist tools, editorial features, or engagement campaigns, this new capability helps turn movie and TV metadata into meaningful consumer action. For organizations that also manage their own catalog records, the availability signals surfaced here connect directly with content availability tracking in Origin Studio, so that enriched data flows through a single governed metadata source of truth.
Explore the New Date Filters
Start building with StartDateStart and StartDateEnd today and help your users discover what to watch next, before it arrives. For a broader view of how streaming metadata solutions and entertainment market intelligence work together across the Origin product family, explore what Fabric builds for media companies at every layer of the content supply chain.
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