Following its $40 million fundraise at first of this 12 months, streaming media firm Plex introduced on Wednesday it’s rolling out a brand new TV present and film opinions function, placing its app in additional direct competitors with different apps, like Letterboxd and TV Time. The function will even embrace social networking parts, because the opinions may be shared with your folks on Plex and even pals of pals.
The corporate moved into the social networking house final 12 months with the launch of a brand new “Discover Together” function that allowed customers to create profiles on the app and discover and comply with pals to be able to uncover information films and exhibits collectively. With Uncover Collectively, customers may share what they’re watching with pals, what they’re bookmarking, and what they’ve rated the content material. This newest launch of film and TV present opinions builds on that current framework, making Plex not only a streaming hub, but additionally a streaming neighborhood.
Plex says that, initially, customers’ opinions will solely be shared inside their community of pals and their pals, however it’s engaged on an replace that can later permit customers to share their rankings and opinions with anybody on the service. The corporate says it’s searching for beta testers for this function now.
To entry the brand new function, customers will want a verified e-mail tackle to get began, however can then create their opinions from both the net interface or the cell apps. To assessment objects out of your Private Media library, customers might want to allow a Sync Watch State & Rankings function, Plex notes. Opinions might want to abide by Plex’s current Group Tips, as effectively.
As well as, Plex customers will have the ability to management which opinions they’ll see when on film and present element pages by accessing a brand new “Ratings and Reviews” choice beneath Account settings. From right here, customers can select to see opinions from Plex customers and critics, customers solely, critics solely, or from nobody.
Plex customers’ current privateness settings will probably be preserved, as effectively — an space that Plex had earlier run into issues with attributable to how Uncover Collectively was an opt-out, not opt-in expertise, resulting in customers leaking their embarrassing viewing habits to family and friends.
