{"id":7888834,"date":"2025-11-14T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/?p=7888834"},"modified":"2025-11-14T11:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:10:13","slug":"taylor-sheridan-shows-worth-paramount-plus-revenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/taylor-sheridan-shows-worth-paramount-plus-revenue\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Sheridan Shows Have Generated $800 Million for Paramount+"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

Taylor Sheridan has long been one of Paramount\u2019s most valuable storytellers, but how valuable is he exactly?\u00a0Parrot Analytics\u2019\u00a0Streaming Economics<\/a>\u00a0data quantifies just how much value he has delivered for the company\u2019s streaming business: Since the first of his Paramount+ originals premiered in 2021, Sheridan\u2019s titles have generated more than $800 million in global streaming revenue for the platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That figure captures not creative influence but pure financial performance driven by subscriber acquisition, retention, and engagement value modeled across markets. \u201cMayor of Kingstown\u201d and \u201cTulsa King\u201d lead the pack. Each show has brought in more than $140 million for Paramount+ worldwide. \u201cYellowstone,\u201d the series that launched the \u201cSheridan-verse,\u201d has earned nearly $130 million for Paramount+ globally, despite the fact that its US streaming rights belong to Peacock. Had the flagship drama been available domestically on Paramount+, it likely would have topped the list outright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Taylor Sheridan series streaming revenue on Paramount+ (Data via Parrot Analytics)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Those numbers illustrate what is at stake as Sheridan shifts his creative home to NBCUniversal<\/a> under a major new overall deal. For Paramount+, his exit represents the loss of a prolific hitmaker whose series collectively account for a significant share of the platform\u2019s total original-content revenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Peacock smartly licensed the domestic streaming rights to \u201cYellowstone,\u201d the flagship series in Sheridan’s universe, his prolific output of titles on Paramount+ has rapidly delivered more value for that platform domestically than \u201cYellowstone\u201d has earned on Peacock. As the home of \u201cYellowstone,\u201d Peacock no doubt benefitted from spillover demand as Paramount+ built out the \u201cYellowstone\u201d universe with spinoffs and grew the fanbase.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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Still, our model calculates that \u201cYellowstone\u201d has earned over $90M on Peacock to date, while the rest of Taylor Sheridan’s work has brought in over 5 times that much for Paramount+ in the US and Canada alone.\u00a0That gap underscores how valuable Sheridan\u2019s creative ecosystem became once Paramount consolidated his newer shows under its own banner.\u00a0It also highlights what Paramount stands to lose and NBCU could potentially gain with the new deal, which doesn’t begin until 2029.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Paramount vs. Peacock Taylor Sheridan revenue (Data via Parrot Analytics)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Sheridan\u2019s move comes at a pivotal moment for Paramount, under new leadership following its merger with Skydance. Losing a reliable revenue engine like Sheridan will challenge Paramount+ to cultivate the next wave of original hits capable of driving both subscriber growth and retention at comparable levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For NBCUniversal, the deal represents a chance to reclaim \u201cYellowstone\u201d\u2019s creative DNA and potentially its economic upside. If Sheridan can replicate even part of the value he generated for Paramount+, his arrival could meaningfully boost Peacock\u2019s content ROI and strengthen its position within NBCU\u2019s broader streaming strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Few creators in television today have such a measurable impact on platform economics. With his next chapter unfolding at NBCUniversal, Taylor Sheridan has an opportunity to once again work his magic as a major value driver on a new streaming home.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Parrot Analytics’ Streaming Economics quantifies the “Yellowstone” creator’s value as he plans his exit to NBCUniversal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10066,"featured_media":7592039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"byline":{"profiles":[{"type":"byline_id","atts":{"term_id":505568,"post_id":7361269}}]},"_links_to":"","_links_to_type":0,"nb_breaking_email_type":"20ea2010-a7ac-4136-bfc8-12173d880a45","nb_breaking_template":"pro-single-story.html","nb_breaking_from_name":"WrapPRO","nb_breaking_subject":"","nb_breaking_preview":"","nb_breaking_list":[],"nb_breaking_header_img":7562034,"nb_breaking_should_send":false,"nb_breaking_content":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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