“If you never did any manual management in terms of control, we’re still going to recommend the stuff that’s right for you, and that’s really based on your viewing history,” Williams says. So over time, the newscasts should automatically get better. Still, Plex will offer stories from outside your specified interests on occasion, and will look at signals such as how often users view a particular news source to fine-tune what appears in the feed. Jason Williams, Plex’s director of product and growth, says these signals were too ambiguous compared to the granular control over favorite topics and sources. But it does have one difference: Plex doesn’t provide thumbs-up and thumb-down buttons to signal whether you like a particular story. The resulting product isn’t drastically different from what WatchUp offered.
Plex creates a personalized newscast from 190 sources. At the time, Plex said it would cease development on WatchUp’s own app to focus on building something similar directly inside Plex. Well, once you’ve logged in, you’ll be able to access whatever is in your Plex Media library, right away. Once you’ve downloaded the app for your device, just sign in using your Plex account. Back in January, Plex made its first acquisition in WatchUp, an app that stitched together web-based news videos into personalized newscasts. The Plex app can be downloaded for free on iOS, Android, PS4, Xbox One, Windows and several other devices. Plex hasn’t made a secret of its news plans or its broader ambitions.
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