{"id":22294,"date":"2024-01-19T11:11:04","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T05:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/plex-is-about-to-launch-a-store-for-movies-and-tv-shows\/"},"modified":"2024-01-19T11:11:04","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T05:41:04","slug":"plex-is-about-to-launch-a-store-for-movies-and-tv-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/plex-is-about-to-launch-a-store-for-movies-and-tv-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Plex is about to launch a store for movies and TV shows"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Plex, known for its media server software and as a place to watch ad-supported content, is going to launch a store for to buy and rent movies and TV shows in early February, executives told Lowpass<\/em>\u2019 Janko Roettgers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cMost studios\u201d are lined up for the store\u2019s launch, and there are \u201cplans to complete the catalog soon after,\u201d Roettgers says. The store will also integrate with Plex features like its watchlists for movies. Roettgers points out that that Plex has announced plans in both 2020 and 2023 to launch a movie \/ TV store \u2014 hopefully Plex is truly ready to do so this time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The new store will mark a major addition for Plex, especially following the company\u2019s layoff of 20 percent of its staff in June 2023. At the time, the company\u2019s CEO told staffers that Plex\u2019s ad business had been \u201csignificantly impacted\u201d by a downturn in global advertising markets, but chief product officer Scott Olechowski told Roettgers that its ad business is growing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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There are more changes coming to Plex down the line, Roettgers\u00a0reports. Olechowski said that the company has a \u201cpretty major UX refresh\u201d in the works to help support the many people using Plex to watch ad-supported movies and TV shows and FAST (free, ad-supported streaming) channels. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Plex is also planning to add more social features like public profiles this year \u2014 even after concerns popped up about its activity sharing feature late last year. (Roettgers says that Plex updated some of the feature\u2019s onboarding processes, and Plex senior product and design director Jason Williams told him that the backlash \u201ckind of vanished pretty quickly afterwards.\u201d)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[ad_1] Plex, known for its media server software and as a place to watch ad-supported content, is going to launch a store for to buy and rent movies and TV shows in early February, executives told Lowpass\u2019 Janko Roettgers. \u201cMost studios\u201d are lined up for the store\u2019s launch, and there are \u201cplans to complete the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}