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Plex wants to become a hub for video and audio subscription services
July 22, 2025
If you’re aPlexuser, you likely use it mainly to stream your personal library of audio and video files (all of which you purchased legally because you would never, ever pirate anything). This, after all, is the main reason for the existence of Plex.
However, with Plex now supportingpodcasts,web shows, and even integrating withthe music streaming service TIDAL, the Plex platform is becoming much bigger. Now, according to German-language siteGolem, the new goal for Plex is to become a hub for all your streaming services.
Theoretically, this would mean you could open Plex and have access to your personal media library as well as access content from other streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Spotify, Audible, etc., all within the same app.
If this were to happen, Plex could be the one-stop-shop for all media which would truly send the platform into the stratosphere.
The problem Plex will face now will be getting the huge platforms — like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video — to sign on. Considering that even a company as huge as Apple had to jump through many hoops toget Amazon Prime Video onto its Apple TV platform, Plex certainly has its work cut out for it in that regard.
What will most likely happen is that Plex will work with smaller and/or up-and-coming streaming services at first. If it can leverage those partnerships to grow its user base, it could potentially become large enough to entice a company like Netflix to come aboard.
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