Plex Closing Year with Billions of Minutes Viewed; Doubles YOY Watchership

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — PlexThe global streaming media platform, nearly tripled its annual revenue and increased its monthly active users to 16million. Plex released major product updates that enhanced the streaming experience. Plex doubled its FAST programming. Plex also expanded its programming and viewership internationally.

Launch of Discover
Plex introduced Universal Watchlist and Discover in April. These features made Plex the only streaming platform that allows users to easily search for and keep a watchlist across all platforms of virtually any movie, documentary or TV show. Plex has added 24 million titles to its Watchlists, which now include more than 450,000 titles. This is in just nine months. In order of popularity, the top-watchlisted programs were franchises. Black Adam, Top Gun Maverick: Avatar: The Way of Water. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Thor: Love and Thunder.

Additionally, millions of shows and movies have been deeplinked from Plex, with the top destinations being Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, HBO Max, Plex, Apple TV, Amazon Video, Google Play Movies & TV, and Hulu.

Partner Growth
Plex focuses on creating content that everyone can enjoy and doubled its partnership efforts in 2022. Plex launched content from A24 and Hallmark, Hearst FOX, E.W. Scripps and Local Now were joined by NBC Universal, PBS and Vevo.  These partnerships enhance Plex’s content offerings and demonstrate Plex’s commitment to offering a wide range of high-quality, free entertainment for all viewers.

FAST is on the Rise
Plex was the first platform to offer free ad supported streaming TV (FAST) channels. Plex FAST viewership more than doubled in 2022. Plex also logged billions of minutes of FAST content. FAST channels on Plex now stand at over 300, with the top performing channels being A+E’s Crime 360, Hallmark Movies & More, and The Walking Dead on Stories by AMC.

Rapid International Growth
Plex is a global content provider with content in 239 countries, and 81 languages. Plex was founded to cater to its international audience. Minutes viewed in 2022 more than doubled annually. Australia, Canada, MexicoThe United Kingdom, and South Africa. Minutes viewed in Spain With Brazil Growing 3X. International growth can be attributed to a focus of new partners who provide high-quality international content such as Rakuten and BBC, eOne or VVS, Trinity, among others.

About Plex
Plex is today’s most comprehensive entertainment platform. Plex is a one-stop platform to stream TV shows and movies online. Plex makes it easy to search for and play any TV show or movie being streamed online. Plex is currently the only streaming platform that provides ad-free movies, shows, or Live TV. You can search for any title and create a watchlist to keep track of the movies and shows that interest you, regardless of where they’re being streamed. Plex has partnered up with some of the most prominent names in entertainment such as Paramount, Warner Brothers Discovery and NBC Universal. Scripps, Relativity and Hearst are among the partners of Plex. Plex acts as a single window to all streaming services and a user’s media library. Plex provides the most relevant content for every user.

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