r/whattowatch
Founded February 2010 · Public — anyone can post
A community where suggestions and requests can be made for TV shows on popular streaming services such as Netflix, Disney Plus, Hulu and more!
Members
13,934
14K
Online now
—
not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
4.9
from the last 100 posts, spanning 20.1 days
Comments per post
—
no sample yet
Growth · 7d
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not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
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not enough history yet
Promo tolerance
—
not assessed yet
Last post
Nov 6
sampled Nov 6
Distinct posters
89%
of the last 100 posts
Tracking since Sep 23 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.
Member growth
Tracking since Sep 23 — growth charts appear after a week of history.
What works in r/whattowatch
Every post in a recent sample, labelled by format. Share is how much of the sample used that format; average score is how it performed.
| Format | Share of posts | Avg score |
|---|---|---|
| Question | 93% | 38 |
| Discussion | 3% | 246 |
| Rant | 2% | 21 |
| Promo | 2% | 8 |
Based on 58 posts sampled in September 2026. A sample, not the full history.
- Median score
- 14
- Top 10% score
- 85
- Text posts
- 95%
- Got no replies
- 0%
- Busiest windows
- Wed 03:00 UTC, Mon 02:00 UTC
Posting rules, in plain words
Self-promotion rules were not clear from the sidebar.
- Do not multiple several suggestion requests within 12 hours of each other: Do not multiple several suggestion requests within 12 hours of each other
Quoted from the community’s own published rules. Always re-read them before posting.
What a good comment looks like here
- — Directly answers the prompt with a show title.
- — Provides brief context or reasoning for the recommendation.
- — Shares personal experience or emotional connection to the show.
- — Engages with other comments, building on recommendations.
- — Mentions specific platforms where the show can be watched.
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r/whattowatch — frequently asked
How many members does r/whattowatch have?
r/whattowatch has 13,934 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 23. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.
Is r/whattowatch growing?
We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/whattowatch yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Sep 23; the chart fills in as history accumulates.
How active is r/whattowatch?
Around 4.9 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 20.1 days. Posting rate matters more than subscriber count when you're deciding where to spend your time — it determines how long your comment stays visible.
When was r/whattowatch created?
r/whattowatch was founded in February 2010 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.
Who posts in r/whattowatch?
Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 89% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Nov 6. A low share means a feed dominated by a handful of accounts (bots, mods, or one prolific poster) rather than a community.
Can I promote my product in r/whattowatch?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/whattowatch yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.
How do I monitor r/whattowatch for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/whattowatch into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.
Can my AI agent read r/whattowatch's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/whattowatch's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.
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