Editors’ Picks For You

Introduction

Recombee enhances your editorial capabilities by enabling you to tailor your selections to showcase the most relevant titles to your audience.

Show your users content that has been carefully selected by the editorial team, with the option to personalize the ordering of these videos for each user.

Scenario Setup

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

1. Enter a Scenario ID, such as "editors-picks"
2. Choose Recommendation type - Items to User (as we want to reorder the content picked by editors based on the user’s watching history)

Logic

The Logic defines the behavior of the recommendation engine.

• Choose the video:editorial-picks logic type from the Video models to return the assets picked by the editors

The list of picked assets is provided via the picks parameter: the editorial team can either pick the list of items directly in the Recombee Admin UI or if you export the list from a CMS, you can set it via API when calling the recommendation request.

To reorder the picks based on the user’s history, set the personalizedReordering parameter to true.

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

Filters

Requesting Recommendations

1. HTML Widget - create an HTML Widget using the visual editor in the Admin UI.
2. API & SDK - request the Recommend Items to User 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.

In order to request content for multiple rows with a single API request, use the Batch endpoint and put the recommendation requests inside it. Set the parameter distinctRecomms in order to deduplicate the assets among the rows.