New Vizio Watchlist Corrals Favorite Streaming Shows Into 1 Location

Vizio tackled streaming TV’s fragmented user experience, announcing My Watchlist, where users can access favorite TV shows and movies from certain streaming services in one location. Users search for a title, actor or hit the “+Watchlist” button on a title's content detail page to add it to the Watchlist, which appears on the SmartCast home screen, Vizio said Tuesday. Users can build a queue of TV shows from premium services including Apple TV+, discovery+, Disney+, HBO Max, Hulu, Paramount+, Prime Video, Starz and others and launch the show directly from the list. Vizio is also serving users more recommendations based on the apps and genres they use most, it said. If a user views Apple TV+ frequently, she may be served an AppleTV+ row with a list of show and movie recommendations for the service. It also added a genre recommendation feature with a row on the home screen dedicated to the types of genre a viewer watches most.