Set up Recommendations

You can use one of the following approaches to generate reports for Recommendations:

• View the Recommendations Playlists Summary
• Create a custom recommendations report
• Create a custom recommendations playlist report

View the Recommendations playlist summary

This report is a default report that includes the following metrics for all recommendation playlists: ad impressions, completes, complete rate, plays, and time watched. This report cannot be edited and covers the last seven days of Recommendations performance.

Use the following steps to access this report:

1. From your JW Player dashboard, click Custom Reports.
2. Click Recommendation Playlists Summary from the list of reports.

Create a custom Recommendations report

You can also create a custom report that allows you to specify the date range and metrics to include in the report.

Use the following steps to create a custom recommendations report:

1. From your JWP dashboard, click Custom Reports.
2. Click Create Report. A panel appears.
3. Select a Date Range from the dropdown menu.
4. Select up to five Metrics to display in the report.
5. In the Group by section, select Playlist Type.
6. From the Filter by dropdown menu in the Filter section, select Playlist Type.
7. From the Choose an option dropdown menu, select Equals.
8. In the final text box, enter Recommendations.
9. Click RUN REPORT. After the report completes, the results are displayed. If you do not want to save the report, skip to step 12.
10. Click Untitled Report and name the report.
11. Click Save Report.
12. Click the More menu icon (next to the Save Report button) to Download graph or Download table of the report.

Create a custom Recommendations playlist report

You can also create a custom report for a specific recommendations playlist that allows you to specify the date range and metrics to include in the report.

Use the following steps to create a custom recommendations playlist report:

1. From your dashboard, click Custom Reports.
2. Click Create Report. A panel appears.
3. Select a Date Range from the dropdown menu.
4. Select up to five Metrics to display in the report.
5. In the Group by section, select Playlist Type.
6. From the Filter by dropdown menu in the Filter section, select Playlist.
7. From the Choose an option dropdown menu, select Equals.
8. In the final text box, enter the name of the playlist.
9. Click RUN REPORT. After the report completes, the results are displayed. If you do not want to save the report, skip to step 12.
10. Click Untitled Report and name the report.
11. Click Save Report.
12. Click the More menu icon (next to the Save Report button) to Download graph or Download table of the report.

You can optimize the performance of Recommendations by following these best practices:

• Create a title and description for each video in your library.
• Group similar categories of videos with tags.
• Associate a recommendations playlist with each player that you embed.
• Replace dynamic, trending, and manual playlists with recommendations playlists.

Yes. Use the following steps to promote up to two playlists that will appear when the countdown overlay appears:

1. From your JW Player dashboard, click Playlist > name of the recommendations playlist.
2. In the Promoted Content section of the SETUP tab, select a manual, trending, or dynamic playlist from the drop-down menu. Once you have chosen one playlist, an option to select a second playlist appears.
3. (Optional) Select another manual, trending, or dynamic playlist to promote from the second drop-down menu.
4. Click SAVE.

To derive the most benefit from Recommendations, you should have a minimum of 50 videos in your library.