Plex’s advertising service is highly interactive with social profiles and reviews

Advertising service Plex has expanded beyond its founding as a streaming home to provide a complete solution for discovering, downloading, and sharing service content, including free TV and commercial-supported Plex movies. Recently, the company added social networking siteswhich is today growth and output about the new functionality. Specifically, this includes a way to share your Plex profile publicly and tools to allow others to read your TV and video reviews and comment back.

Plex launched the social network in November 2023 when it launched a feature called “Discover Together,” which allows users to create a profile on the service and find and follow friends to watch what they watch. (The feature also received feedback from other Plex users they were unhappy of his outgoing nature. Plex now says the content is listed as an adult it is not visible (in user fees, which was one of the user complaints.)

Although it was a change for the company, providing a rich experience on Plex allows it to compete well not only with other free, ad-supported, and dedicated video and TV streaming sites like. Letterboxd and TV timeamong others.

With today’s release, Plex says users will be able to share a public URL that points to their profile on the service. watch.plex.tv. By default, users will be able to find others on Plex through the app’s search function, unless they have already turned this off in their preferences.

People who view your profile will be able to see what you’ve been watching, what’s on your Watchlist, and more. This does not change your existing privacy settings, Plex notes.

Additionally, Plex users will have the option to make their Episodes & Comments visible to other users on Plex through a new update. Here, you can choose between allowing everyone to see these comments or only those logged into Plex. You can also choose whether your comments are only visible to your Friends or Friends of Friends, or you can make all your Ratings & Reviews private if you prefer.

Along with social media, Plex is also launching a preview of its new feature, first on Apple TV. The update includes updated navigation, customization options, easier access, richer functionality and more graphics, and a variety of Plex social media features, the company says. to announce.

For power users, Plex Pass subscribers (paid users) will get the opportunity to use HEVC hardware encoding to have better video quality and save bandwidth. This feature was previously shown to selected users but is now available to all subscribers.