Crunchyroll announced today that it is unveiling a new beta website for Crunchyroll Premium web users based in the United States. The beta website includes a mobile responsive experience, updated homepage, redesigned browse and watch pages, new search capabilities, and the brand new Crunchylists feature. The website’s homepage also has a new user interface where users can now enjoy personalized recommendations and navigate seamlessly to their watchlist or to a specific show or episode page.
The redesigned browse and watch pages are engineered with user engagement in mind, incorporating high-converting landing pages that guide viewers to content more efficiently. Enhanced search capabilities allow users to find specific shows or episodes with ease, while the Crunchylists feature provides a new way to curate and share collections of anime. This comprehensive overhaul aims to deliver a more seamless and enjoyable streaming experience, catering to the needs of a diverse and growing audience.
Additional Information
Crunchyroll Beta offers fans improved search and filtering that enables fans to easily access simulcasts, new and popular anime, and explore different genres, while filtering between subtitled or dubbed anime series. Additionally, Crunchyroll will continue to offer curated collections, handpicked by Crunchyroll’s anime experts.
To add a more personal touch to the Crunchyroll experience, fans now have the ability to create unique usernames and select from a curated library of avatars and header images featuring their favorite series. Crunchyroll also announced that the Beta website will introduce the brand new Crunchylists feature, which allows fans to create a curated collection of their own. Fans can add a title to their unique Crunchylist creations, add any series or select episodes from Crunchyroll’s extensive collection of more than 1,000 series, and organize their Crunchylist however they choose.
To experience the new Crunchyroll Beta, eligible Crunchyroll Premium users can opt-in through the header images or pop ups that appear across the Crunchyroll website. Currently, Crunchyroll Beta is only available to 20% of premium users, but will eventually become available to all premium subscribers and all free users in the U.S. More info on the international rollout of Crunchyroll Beta will be shared when that is available. Fans can opt in and out of the beta experience to Crunchyroll Classic as they would like and are encouraged to share feedback in the “Leave Feedback” function under their profile header.
Source: Press release
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