From here, you can also take actions like watching a trailer, adding the title to your watchlist, or marking the program as “watched.” Helpfully, you can choose to launch the content directly on a particular service by clicking one of the options. On the title’s page, you can view other information about the show or movie, like its runtime, description, category, rating, cast, director and more.

And it will indicate if the user has the title available in their own media library. It will also highlight if the title is currently available to stream through Plex’s own ad-supported streaming catalog. When viewing a particular title, Plex will first display the streaming options users have access to ahead of other services. but the actual search results will vary based on your region and which services you’ve told Plex you have access to. This helps Plex personalize its universal search results and new discovery features.Īs of today’s launch, Plex has more than 450 services indexed for search on a global basis - hundreds of which are in the U.S. “We really wanted to solve that…and get back to the roots of Plex, which is solving problems for users around movies and shows,” he adds.Īt launch, users will go through a brief onboarding process where they will select the various streaming services they have access to, both free and paid. How do we expect users to navigate this?,” says Plex’s senior director of Product and Design, Jason Williams, speaking about the issues with the current streaming landscape. Things are moving around from one service to the next.

“Everybody has their content and exclusives.

The company believes the additions will make Plex more useful in today’s increasingly fragmented streaming landscape where it’s hard to keep up with what’s available to watch on which services - particularly when content regularly changes hands as licensing deals expire.

Streaming media platform Plex is expanding on its mission to serve as a one-stop shop for media and entertainment with the launch of new features designed to help users discover content to watch across their streaming services and save titles to a universal watchlist.

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