Licence windows, brand hubs and what leaves HBO Max next
The strongest thing this platform publishes is the licence window itself. Every title carries a start date and an end date; owned and original programming sits on a sentinel date a century out, while a licensed film carries its real expiry. Across one genre hub of 96 films and series, dated expiries outnumbered evergreen ones roughly four to one, and about a quarter of those dates fell inside the current year. A leaving-soon calendar here is read off the page, not inferred by comparing snapshots.
Coverage per storefront is just as open. Each market publishes a flat catalogue index at /sitemap/shows and /sitemap/movies - id, name and address, nothing else - which makes the country deltas countable rather than anecdotal. The US index runs to roughly 1,961 series and 2,315 films as of September 2026, against roughly 710 series in the United Kingdom and 705 in Germany, with Latin America holding the largest film library outside the States. Barely half the German film index also appears in the American one.
The rest of the structure is walkable: brand hubs at /channel for HBO, Max Originals, DC, TCM, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Discovery, TLC, HGTV, Food Network, Investigation Discovery, Magnolia Network and CNN Max; 183 genre hubs; a whats-new shelf; and sports hubs for whichever leagues a market carries. Trailers and extras are the only free shelf on the web, and plan tiers, stream limits and prices are quoted to signed-out visitors in each storefront's own currency.