More Like This

Introduction

As a user, you'll appreciate the "More like this" section when exploring video details, as it conveniently displays titles similar to your current selection. This makes it super easy for you to discover new videos that align with your tastes.

Scenario Setup

In the Recombee Admin UI, navigate to the Scenarios section and choose Create Scenario.

1. Enter a Scenario ID, such as "similar-movies"
2. Choose Recommendation type - Items to Item (as the recommendations will be based mainly on the currently viewed movie or series)

Logic

The Logic defines the behavior of the recommendation engine.

• Choose the video:more-like-this logic type from the Video models

Based on the assetType parameter you can choose what type of assets will be returned (e.g. movies, series, episodes, or movies and episodes, etc.).

Using the excludeAlreadyWatched parameter you can either allow or filter out the titles the user has already watched.

Filters

Available Assets (Global Settings)

You always want to recommend only movies, series, and episodes that are currently available to watch for your users. Therefore you need to apply a Filter rule to allow only such assets.

As it would be tedious and prone to error to add this rule to all the Scenarios, this rule shall be added to the Global Settings, so it is always applied everywhere.

The particular filter depends on how you specify such assets in your catalog:

• If you have a boolean property that marks the asset as available you can use the predefined Available items [boolean] rule.
• If you have a timestamp property that specifies when the asset is published (becomes available) you can use the predefined Published items rule.
• Or if you have a licensing window (start date, end date) you can use the predefined Items within their licensing window rule.
• In every other case, you can create a custom filter rule to allow only the available assets according to your own logic.

Requesting Recommendations

1. No-Code Widget - create a No-Code Widget using the visual editor in the Admin UI.
2. Widget SDKs - use the SDK for a Carousel, Grid or Feed to display the recommendations in the design of your choice. Use the Recommend Items to Item endpoint when initializing the widget.
3. API SDK - request the Recommend Items to Item endpoint of the Recombee API using an SDK of your choice.

For more information navigate to the Integration tab of the Scenario in the Admin UI.