Tubi Introduces “Mixtapes” and We’ve Created Our Own “Return of the Dead” Horror Mixtape

Tubi has an absolutely incredible collection of horror films, but since their library contains over 375,000 movies and TV episodes, browsing for exactly what you're looking for can sometimes be challenging. Thankfully, Tubi has introduced Mixtapes, allowing users to create their own personal collection of titles for themselves to keep and share. We have all the details of the newly launched feature, and we've created our own horror playlist that's appropriately Daily Dead themed!

From the Press Release: "Long before streaming, people found their next favorite movie or show through someone else: often someone who knew their taste better than they did. A friend passed along a VHS they swore you’d love. Someone insisted, “You have to see this.” And for music, there was the mixtape: songs chosen one by one, sequenced with care, and made for a particular person, mood, or moment. 

Entertainment discovery has always been social. Recent Tubi research found that recommendations from friends or family are among the top three factors influencing U.S. consumers to try a new streaming service, behind only affordability and variety of content. Now, Tubi is bringing more of that human element of discovery into streaming with Mixtapes, a new way for people to package what they love to watch into personal collections they can give to someone else, share with everyone, or keep entirely for themselves. 

With Mixtapes, fans of all kinds can personally curate collections from Tubi's library of more than 375,000 movies and TV episodes around almost anything: a mood, a memory, an obsession, an era, a person. They can give each mixtape a title and description and arrange the entertainment inside in whatever order feels right to them. Viewers can build one entirely on their own, or describe what they’re looking for and let Tubi offer a starting place that they can edit, rearrange, or rebuild entirely. When their mixtape is finished, they can publish and share it with other people or keep it for themselves. 

'Discovery on Tubi has always been deeply personal, and we built Mixtapes to give viewers a new sense of authorship,' said Mike Bidgoli, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Tubi. 'There’s something special about choosing what belongs together and who it’s for. A mixtape can express your own taste, but it can also say to someone else, ‘I made this for you,’ and that kind of personal recommendation has always been at the heart of how people discover their next favorite thing.'

Tubi fans have long used My List to save movies and shows they want to return to. Instead of one running list, viewers can build as many distinct mixtapes as they want, and, for the first time on Tubi, they can share their collections through a link that opens directly into the mixtape itself. 

That behavior already thrives beyond streaming platforms, where fans trade homemade watchlists, recommendations, and 'what to watch] threads across social media. Mixtapes brings that creativity into Tubi itself, with a destination where fans can browse mixtapes and discover a corner of the vast Tubi entertainment library through someone else’s personal taste and point of view."

The Mixtapes feature is available now on mobile and web for you to create your own custom mixtape. As for our Daily Dead Mixtape? It's titled "Return of the Dead" and collects zombie movies and other films where the dead come back to life! With titles like Fulci's Zombie, The Return of the Living Dead, and Cemetery Man, there's a little something for everything and hopefully some titles that will be brand-new watches for Daily Dead readers. We'll continue to update our Mixtape as new titles are added and removed.