Topic: content discovery
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Optimize Streaming Search with Metadata & Machine Learning
The streaming industry faces a significant challenge with content discovery, making the use of metadata and machine learning critical for improving user engagement and revenue. Experts argue for richer, more nuanced metadata and standardized, high-quality data to power effective AI-driven persona...
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AI-Powered Content Discovery for OTT & CTV
AI is transforming content discovery on streaming platforms by using viewer data to create personalized experiences, moving beyond the paradox of choice. Recommendation systems employ hybrid methods, combining content-based and collaborative filtering to suggest both familiar favorites and unexpe...
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Master Your Platform's Algorithm: A Quick Guide
Users have significant control over algorithmic recommendations on major social platforms through built-in tools that allow them to signal preferences for content they want to see more or less of. Specific platform features include Facebook's content preferences and activity log, Instagram's Reel...
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Federation: The Fix for Broken Watch Lists
The modern streaming landscape is fragmented, with each service maintaining its own isolated watchlist, making it difficult for users to retrieve saved content across platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Google TV. A proposed solution is data federation, allowing users to opt into sharing watchlist ...
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Find What's Streaming Across All Platforms Instantly
The vast number of streaming services makes finding content difficult, but specialized aggregation tools can streamline the search process across all subscriptions. Two prominent free tools are JustWatch, which offers detailed listings and optional premium features, and Reelgood, which provides s...
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YouTube Adds AI Overviews Like Google for Better Search
YouTube is testing an AI-powered search feature for Premium members in the U.S., focusing on shopping, travel, and local activities, with AI-generated summaries and video carousels. The feature is currently limited to iOS/Android devices, English-language videos, and a select group of Premium use...
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Netflix Redesigns App to Boost Daily User Engagement
Netflix is redesigning its mobile app to boost daily engagement by integrating vertical video feeds and expanding into new content like video podcasts, positioning this as strategic growth rather than imitation. The redesign, launching fully in 2026, focuses on a TikTok-like short-form video feed...
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Roku's Massive Upgrade: All the New Features Revealed
Roku's platform upgrade introduces AI-powered voice search for more natural, conversational queries and enhanced content discovery tools to streamline entertainment access. New features include a "Ways to Watch" button for instant viewing from trailers and real-time sports alerts with customizabl...
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Google Lens Now Works With YouTube Shorts
Google Lens is now integrated into YouTube Shorts, enabling users to search for visual content directly within videos by pausing and highlighting elements. The feature works by overlaying search results on paused Shorts, allowing users to explore related information without leaving the video, cur...
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LLMs.txt: The Web's Future or Spam Nightmare?
The llms.txt protocol aims to help AI systems access cleaner website content but faces trust issues due to potential abuse, such as cloaking and manipulative instructions, making major platforms hesitant to adopt it. Despite its goal of guiding large language models, the protocol lacks built-in v...
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Rate Your Favorite Shows and Movies on HBO Max
HBO Max has introduced an interactive rating feature with options "Love," "Like," or "Not For Me" to personalize content recommendations and curate sections like "Because You Love." The feature, tested extensively last year, mirrors competitors like Netflix and is accessible across all platforms ...
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Google's Gemini AI Is Coming to Your TV Screen
Google is integrating its Gemini AI assistant into Google TV, allowing users to interact with it using natural language to find content and access information on over 300 million devices. The AI serves as an entertainment concierge for personalized show recommendations, plot summaries, and film s...
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Google's Discover Feed Now Includes X and Instagram Posts
Google Discover is expanding to include content from social networks like YouTube Shorts, Instagram, and X, making the feed more dynamic and personalized. Users will gain greater control over their feed, including the ability to follow specific creators or publishers and preview content before ch...
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YouTube Tests AI to Enhance Search & Discovery
YouTube is testing AI-powered tools like smarter search results and conversational assistance to enhance content discovery and interaction, with a focus on refining recommendations and helping creators reach audiences. A new AI-generated search carousel for Premium U.S. users organizes video ...
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Build Your Own Spotify Playlist With ChatGPT
Spotify has integrated ChatGPT to allow users to generate personalized music and podcast recommendations by linking their accounts and making conversational requests. The feature offers different levels of personalization, with premium subscribers receiving more advanced, tailored playlists based...
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YouTube CEO's 2026 Video Marketing Strategy Revealed
YouTube's CEO repositions the platform as a central hub for global culture, commerce, and entertainment, requiring marketers to adopt an integrated, creator-led, and commerce-enabled strategy. The platform's evolution demands brands move beyond transactional sponsorships to deep co-production par...
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Threads' 'Dear Algo' AI Customizes Your Feed
Meta's Threads has launched "Dear Algo," a public AI tool that lets users temporarily adjust their feed's content for three days by posting a direct request, offering customization not found on rivals like X. The feature works by users making public posts (e.g., "show me more about NBA finals"), ...
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Alexa Plus Can Find That Movie Scene You're Thinking Of
Amazon has launched an AI feature for Fire TV that allows users to describe a movie scene to Alexa Plus and instantly jump to that exact moment, integrating with Prime Video. The technology uses advanced AI models to understand natural language queries, enabling it to find scenes based on descrip...
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Sex Workers Launch 'Anti-OnlyFans' to Reclaim Their Earnings
Stella Barey leveraged TikTok fame during the pandemic to build a lucrative career on OnlyFans, but found the creator demands unsustainable, leading her to establish a new platform by 2025. She launched Hidden, the first adult platform owned and operated by sex workers, designed as an "anti-OnlyF...
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Gemini Arrives on Google TV Streamer
Gemini AI assistant is now launching on the Google TV Streamer, replacing Google Assistant to offer more conversational and detailed entertainment recommendations. It extends beyond entertainment to provide educational explanations, DIY guides, and smart home control, with personalized voice opti...
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YouTube TV App Upgrades: QR Code Shopping & AI Upscaling
YouTube has introduced QR code shopping and AI-powered video upscaling to its TV app, aiming to enhance its living room presence, where it holds 12.4% of TV watch time. The shoppable QR codes allow viewers to scan and purchase products directly from videos, boosting creator revenue as high-earnin...
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17 Must-Track SEO Reports for 2026 Success
SEO strategy requires reliable data from key reports to guide budget decisions, identify opportunities, and maintain credibility with stakeholders. The IAB/PwC report provides historical U.S. digital ad revenue data, tracking shifts from desktop to mobile and capital migration to new channels lik...
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Roku's New AI Assistant Answers Questions About Your Shows
Roku is enhancing its voice assistant with advanced AI, enabling detailed conversational queries about entertainment and providing on-screen text responses with relevant content links. The update reflects a broader industry trend, with competitors like Amazon and Netflix also integrating AI-drive...
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Google's AI-Powered Discover & Sports Feed Unveiled
Google has enhanced its Discover platform with AI to provide dynamic content previews and introduced a specialized sports feed for mobile search, aiming to deliver quicker access to relevant information. The AI-driven previews in Discover are currently available in the U.S., South Korea, and Indi...
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Threads Launches Communities to Organize Your Interests
Threads has launched a global Communities feature for web and mobile, enabling users to connect over shared interests like sports, entertainment, and technology in dedicated spaces. Joining a community labels your profile and integrates posts into your feeds, combining exclusive group content wit...
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Gemini Arrives on Google TV: Here's How to Get It
Google is integrating its Gemini AI assistant into Google TV, starting with TCL's QM9K series and expanding to other devices like the Google TV Streamer 4K later this year. Gemini enables free-flowing conversations for personalized TV recommendations, content searches, and answering general knowl...
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Shamroc Peterson: How to Engage Niche Audiences & Monetize Content
Diverseego TV targets Black and Latino travelers by offering curated travel content and helps content creators evolve into business owners, emphasizing community engagement and monetization. The platform supports creators in transitioning from individual influencers to company owners, enabling th...
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TikTok Launches 'Shared Feeds' for Collaborative Content
TikTok has globally launched **Shared Collections**, allowing users over 16 to collaboratively save and organize videos into folders with mutual followers, enhancing group content discovery. The platform previewed **Shared Feeds**, a future feature that will create a daily, curated feed of 15 vid...
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Threads Launches Podcast Features to Host Show Discussions
Meta is launching new Threads features specifically for podcast creators, aiming to become the main platform for podcast-related discussions and community engagement. The platform is introducing visually enhanced podcast links and dedicated profile sections to help creators promote shows and attr...
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Control YouTube's AI Upscaling on Your Videos
YouTube is introducing AI-powered upscaling to enhance videos originally uploaded in lower resolutions (240p to 720p) to high-definition quality, with future plans for 4K support and an opt-out option for both creators and viewers. The platform is adding new features including an instant shopping...
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Google Adds AI Summaries to Discover, 'What's New' Sports Feed to Search
Google is introducing AI-generated summaries in its Discover feed for users in the U.S., South Korea, and India, providing concise previews of trending topics that can be expanded for more details and links to articles. A new "What's New" sports feature in Google Search will offer mobile users a ...
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How to Remove YouTube Shorts from Search Results
YouTube is introducing new search filters to separate long-form videos from YouTube Shorts, addressing user frustration with mixed-format results. The platform is removing underperforming filters like "Upload Date - Last Hour" and replacing "View count" sorting with a "Popularity" filter based on...
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Substack's New TV App Sparks Backlash
Substack's launch of TV apps for video and livestreams has sparked backlash from its core user base, who see it as a departure from the platform's identity as a haven for written journalism. The strategic expansion targets the growing market for televised video and podcast consumption, aligning w...
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Google Discover Now Defaults to AI-Powered Feed
Google is integrating AI-powered features like article summaries and Q&A directly into its Discover feed and Android app, shifting how users consume information within its ecosystem. This move is part of a broader strategy to steer user interactions toward Google's own AI tools, creating a seamle...
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Snapchat Launches 'Topic Chats' for Public Conversations
Snapchat is launching Topic Chats, a new feature enabling public discussions on global events and niche interests, shifting the platform from its private messaging focus. The feature prioritizes user privacy by hiding profiles from non-friends and employs advanced moderation tools, including LLM ...
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The Sports Streaming Chaos: A Fragmented Nightmare
Sports streaming has become increasingly fragmented, frustrating fans like JJ Watt who face access issues due to carriage disputes and the need for multiple subscriptions. Streaming giants like Amazon, Netflix, and Apple are securing exclusive sports rights, making more games available online but...
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Perplexity AI Partners with Getty Images in Major Licensing Deal
Perplexity AI has secured a multi-year licensing deal with Getty Images, allowing legal use of its image library to enhance AI-driven search platforms and address past content scraping concerns. The partnership legitimizes Perplexity's prior use of Getty's imagery, which had faced plagiarism accu...
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Instagram Tests Feature to Control Your Feed
Instagram is testing a feature that lets users add or remove topics to customize their Reels and Explore content for a more personalized feed. The update, announced by Adam Mosseri, aims to give users greater control over their experience and may extend to Threads in the future. This initiative i...
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Unlock Perplexity AI Pro for Free on Your Samsung TV
Samsung is integrating Perplexity AI into its TVs, offering a free one-year Perplexity Pro subscription to enhance interactivity and information access directly from the television. The app allows users to perform tasks like getting quick answers, researching topics, and discovering content using...
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Facebook's New Look: The TikTok Transformation
Facebook is adopting a TikTok-inspired short-form video strategy, enhancing its recommendations engine to deliver more relevant Reels and revitalize the platform under Meta's leadership. The platform now prioritizes fresh content by showing 50% more same-day Reels and introduces "friend bubbles" ...
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Alexa Plus Frees You From Your Phone on TV
Alexa Plus enhances TV viewing by providing intuitive, context-aware responses that reduce the need for phone checks, keeping viewers immersed in their entertainment. It expands Prime Video's X-Ray feature, allowing users to ask about actors, filming locations, trivia, and skip directly to specif...
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iOS 26.2 Finally Adds Long-Awaited Apple Music Feature
The iOS 26.2 update integrates Apple Music song links into the Podcasts app, allowing listeners to see track information and add discovered songs directly to their library while listening to radio shows. This solves a long-standing user dilemma by combining the robust episode management features ...
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Cloudflare's AI Agents Spark SEO Concerns
Cloudflare's new "Markdown for Agents" feature automatically converts web pages into a simplified markdown format for AI crawlers, aiming to reduce processing costs and improve efficiency for machine readers. The feature has raised significant SEO concerns, as it could enable "AI cloaking" by all...
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Sites Can Opt Out of Google's AI Search Features
Google is developing tools for website owners to opt their content out of its generative AI search features, like AI Overviews, in response to UK regulatory requirements. The company aims to balance publisher control with maintaining core search functionality, ensuring new opt-out mechanisms do n...
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Substack Launches a Dedicated TV App
Substack has launched a beta TV app for Apple and Google TV, allowing subscribers to watch video posts and live streams on their televisions with a "For You" recommendation feed. The move represents a major strategic investment in video to compete with platforms like YouTube, despite sparking use...
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Amazon Unveils Frame TVs and Upgraded Fire TV at CES
Amazon has launched a major redesign of its Fire TV platform, featuring a cleaner interface and faster navigation to simplify content discovery as streaming libraries grow. The update introduces a more modern layout with consolidated tabs, a quick-access panel for settings, and AI-powered Alexa+ ...
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Patreon Adds Tweet-Style Features and Recommendations
Patreon is introducing social media-style tools like Quips, which are public posts to help creators attract new audiences while maintaining direct supporter connections. The update includes collaborative posts and an improved recommendation engine to foster discovery and audience sharing among cr...
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Gemini Arrives on Google TV Streamer This Winter
Google's Gemini voice assistant is expanding to Google TV Streamer, Walmart onn. 4K Pro, and 2025 Hisense and TCL TV models this winter, broadening its availability beyond the initial TCL QM9K series. The assistant enables natural, conversational interactions for entertainment purposes, such as s...
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YouTube's Hype Feature: A New Avenue for Smaller Creators
YouTube's new "Hype" feature empowers fans to boost smaller creators by hyping videos, enhancing visibility with badges and leaderboard rankings. Creators under 500K subscribers gain more points, leveling the playing field. This community-driven initiative offers a potential revenue stream through paid hypes and promises tailored content discovery and analytics for future development.
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SoundCloud Adds Social Feature to See What Friends Like
SoundCloud is introducing new social discovery tools to help users connect through shared music, enhancing community interaction and competing with services like Spotify. Key features include "Liked By Your Crew" and "Liked By Playlists," which aggregate liked songs and playlists from followed us...
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