Following its $40 million fundraise in the beginning of this 12 months, streaming media firm Plex introduced on Wednesday it’s rolling out a brand new TV present and film evaluations function, placing its app in additional direct competitors with different apps, like Letterboxd and TV Time. The function may even embody social networking components, because the evaluations will be shared with your mates on Plex and even mates of mates.
The corporate moved into the social networking area final 12 months with the launch of a brand new “Uncover Collectively” function that allowed customers to create profiles on the app, and discover and comply with mates with a purpose to uncover information motion pictures and exhibits collectively. With Uncover Collectively, customers might share what they’re watching with mates, what they’re bookmarking, and what they’ve rated the content material. This newest launch of film and TV present evaluations builds on that present framework, making Plex not only a streaming hub, but additionally a streaming neighborhood.
Plex says that, initially, customers’ evaluations will solely be shared inside their community of mates and their mates, however it’s engaged on an replace that may enable customers to share their rankings and evaluations 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 electronic mail handle to get began, however can then create their evaluations from both the net interface or the cell apps. To overview objects from the Private Media library, customers might want to allow a Sync Watch State & Rankings function, Plex notes. Evaluations might want to abide by Plex’s present Neighborhood Tips, as properly.
As well as, Plex customers will be capable to management which evaluations they’ll see when on film and present element pages by accessing a brand new “Rankings and Evaluations” choice underneath Account settings. From right here, customers can select to see evaluations from Plex customers and critics, customers solely, critics solely, or from nobody.
Plex customers’ present privateness settings shall be preserved, as properly — an space that Plex had earlier run into issues with resulting from how Uncover Collectively was an opt-out, not opt-in expertise, resulting in customers leaking their embarrassing viewing habits to family and friends.