Plex is rolling out a variety of new features in the coming weeks and months. The new features are collectively designed to make the platform more social through the use of community-driven recommendations, conversations, and more.
What You Need to Know
- Plex is adding community‑driven tools like Lists, Discussions, reactions, and follows to make discovery more social.
- The goal here is to further help solve the fragmented nature of streaming by enabling trust‑based recommendations across all services.
- Discussions launch this month, followed by the rest of the new social features throughout the year.
Unlike traditional streaming services, Plex is more of a general platform, and this makes it more versatile with the added ability to appeal to a wider variety of users than a single service.
It is this versatility that the company is now looking to build on through new features that not only increase social interactions but also content discovery.
“Streaming has become increasingly fragmented, and discovery stays focused within individual content silos locked behind each platform’s closed algorithms. We believe the future of entertainment discovery is social and trust-driven,” said Scott Olechowski, co-founder and chief product officer at Plex.
One of the new features coming to Plex is Lists. As the name suggests, Lists offer a way for users to create personalized lists on Plex. However, these lists are not just for the individual user, as they can easily be shared with others as well.
Technically, Lists are already available on Plex, but the company says an enhanced version will be coming later this year.
Here’s the full list of social features coming to Plex:
- Lists: Users can create, manage and share personalized lists on Plex of any movie, show or episode. Additional enhancements launching later this year will include the ability to import existing lists from other platforms and being able to react and comment on friends’ lists.
- Discussions: A new community forum lets users post and comment directly on any movie, show, season, or episode, surfacing conversations around the content they love most.
- Match Score: A proprietary compatibility score predicts how much any individual user will enjoy a given movie or show, tailored to their unique taste, past ratings and viewing history.
- Content Reactions: Fans can go beyond star ratings with emoji-based reactions that capture how a title made them feel.
- Follow Anything: Alerts keep entertainment fans in the loop on new activity tied to the lists, movies, shows, cast, and crew they follow.
- Comment with Images: Users can react to reviews, discussions, and more with images, adding a new layer of expression to every conversation.
Along with Lists, Discussions is the only other feature that Plex has commented on the release, stating it will go live for users sometime this month.
All of the other features are currently scheduled to roll out through the remainder of the year.
“Because Plex isn’t tied to any single content library or service, we can build something no one else can: a shared discovery experience powered by people you trust, conversations, and community,” added Olechowski.
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