How does video recommendation work?
A: Suggested videos are recommendations on the watch page that viewers may be interested in watching next. These videos include personalized recommendations, based on the viewer’s previous watches, and videos that are topically related. You may want to consider these tactics to increase traffic for Suggested.
Why does YouTube recommend the same videos?
Originally Answered: Why is YouTube recommending videos I already watched? YouTube announced publicly that they will show you a video that you already watched because it is likely that you will watch it again. Think about it. They can offer you that video and they know that you like it, guaranteed.
How does YouTube recommendation software work?
It used software to generate the hundreds of thousands of suggestions by selecting a random video to start and then automatically picking from among the top five videos that were recommended afterward. A recommended video was selected four times in sequence for each YouTube journey.
Why does YouTube recommend videos with millions of views?
YouTube wants to recommend things people will like, and the clearest signal of that is whether other people liked them. Pew found that 64 percent of recommendations went to videos with more than a million views.
Do YouTubers get recommendations from anonymous users?
Most YouTube users, though, are logged in and receive recommendations based on their viewing history. Nick Seaver, an anthropologist who studies recommender systems at Tufts University, said that the study assumes that an anonymous user generates a kind of “baseline” that personalization would merely modify around the edges.
How do you share recommendations on YouTube?
We share recommendations both on YouTube’s homepage and in the “Up next” section as a suggestion of what to watch next when you’re watching a video. We’re constantly testing, learning, and adjusting to recommend videos that are relevant to you.