In 2026, YouTube’s recommendation system places stronger weight on audience satisfaction and tailored engagement, with different strategies needed for Shorts, long-form videos, and YouTube Music.

YouTube’s 2026 algorithm refresh puts viewer satisfaction at the center of recommendations, reshaping what content gets seen. Shorts, long-form, and live streams are handled by more distinct ...

Companies, nonprofit organizations, and governments design algorithms to learn and predict user preferences. They embed these algorithms in recommendation systems that help consumers make choices ...

An exclusive excerpt from Every Screen On The Planet reveals how the social media app’s powerful recommendation engine was shaped by a bunch of ordinary, twentysomething curators—including a guy named ...

I’ve spent months trying to untrain the algorithms that were relentlessly serving me content on loss. I’ve always been a super-Googler, coping with uncertainty by trying to learn as much as I can ...