Plex Media Server (PMS) is free software that allows users to create a client–server for movies, television shows, and music. Plex Media Server Plex Media Server Initial release As of August 2019, Plex had about 100 global employees. Domestic Television Distribution, MGM, Lionsgate, Regency Enterprises and Legendary. In December 2019, Plex launched an ad-supported streaming service of movies and television shows from content sources including Warner Bros.

Keith Valory became president and CEO in 2013. Feingold said Plex apps had been downloaded about one million times. At that time, Plex had 130 apps, the most popular of which were viewers for iTunes movies trailers, YouTube, Hulu, Netflix, MTV music videos, BBC iPlayer and Vimeo.

was incorporated with Ullman as CEO and Feingold as chief technology officer. In July 2008, the project was renamed Plex, which the developers said was chosen because 'it evokes 'cineplex' and the suffix means 'comprising a number of parts''. The OSXBMC code was kept roughly in sync with the upstream XBMC code. Due to different goals from the XBMC team, they forked the code that became Plex, and published it on GitHub. The developers continued collaborating with the Linux-based XBMC project until May 21, 2008. The team released early versions of the port, called OSXBMC, intended for eventual full integration into Mac OS X. They contacted him and offered support and funding, and they formed a three-person team in January 2008. Around the same time, Cayce Ullman and Scott Olechowski-software executives who had recently sold their previous company to Cisco-were also looking to port XBMC to Mac OS X, and noticed Feingold's progress in the XBMC online forums. Plex began as a freeware hobby project in December 2007 when developer Elan Feingold created a media center application for his Mac by porting the media player XBMC (since renamed Kodi) to Mac OS X.

In 2019, Plex launched an ad-supported streaming service of movies, television shows and music that is accessible from its applications. Plex's media server software organizes video, audio, and photos from a user's server and streams it to players on mobile devices, smart TVs, streaming boxes, and in web apps. is an American software company that develops its namesake streaming media service and a client–server media player platform.

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