Plex Wants to add Subscription Channels Rental Option More ByGabriela Vatu-January 9 2020 “3/3.1921.jpg” Figure 1 This year, Plex Plex is considering introducing new features. SVOD channels are on the New Add-ons list. Plex also wants to add the options to rent and buy. Back in December, in over 200 countries working to compete with other similar tools, Plex announced the launch of its ad-supported streaming services. But for the business, which seeks to expand even more by offering visitors more ways to consume content, that is not nearly enough. Nowadays Plex mixes with their own antennas cloud DVR podcasts in live TV streaming for cord-cutters with Tidal music streaming and an ad-supported catalog of films and shows. If there was anything free they could add to their service they were already doing pretty much that. But the thing about today’s consumers is that they want to watch a lot of content created by services that require a subscription whether we’re talking about Netflix Hulu Amazon Prime Video HBO Apple TV+ Disney+ or any others that we might have forgotten to add to this ever-growing list. The integration of deep-linking into the service would be one solution to this problem. Basically, they want you to be able to subscribe to Hulu or HBO via their website, for example, and then you can view the content on the Plex app from these providers. This is similar to what Amazon Prime does with the Prime Video Channels it provides, or a website like Reelgood where you can browse through quite a few streaming services to find content. It doesn’t seem like there’s an urgent rush to implement these apps. According to a statement given to TechCrunch by Plex CEO Keith Valory the company wants to concentrate mainly on expanding the ad-supported content library but these other features are definitely on their list. In addition to these targets, they are also engaged in talks with studios and companies involved in offering their subscription services via Plex with the intention of getting 15 to 20 SVOD channels in between. While it’s uncertain what functionality will be introduced when it looks like we’re at least getting some of these this year. One thing that is clear is that Plex is looking to become the place you’re going to control most of your content watching whether we’re talking about streaming free movies and showing checking out your favorite pay-per-view channel or looking at a dashboard for streaming content in Hulu or another similar platform if you like.