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To access these features, ask your JWP representative to enable Recommendations.

Recommendations automates the generation of a playlist based on the currently-watched video and provides you options to customize the appearance and behavior of that playlist. To set up Recommendations, you only need to create a recommendations playlist and then associate the playlist with a player.

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Use the following sections to set up JW Recommendations from your JW Player dashboard.

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If you are a developer or have developer resources, you can also [set up Recommendations](🔗) with our API.

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## Associate Recommendations with a player

To start recommending content to your viewers, you must associate a recommendations playlist with a player:

1. Create a [Recommendations](🔗) playlist.

2. From the [Players](🔗) page, select an existing player. The player builder page appears. If you have clicked **Create Web Player** to create a new player, the player builder page will also appear.

3. On the **Configuration** tab, expand the **Recommendations** section. The Recommendations options are displayed.

4. Click the toggle to turn **ON** the **Recommendations** features.

5. (Optional) From the **Recommendations Playlist** dropdown menu, select a playlist. If you do not have additional playlists listed or prefer not to choose a playlist, the **Default Recommendations Feed** will be used. NOTE: A recommendations playlist can be associated with multiple players.

6. (Optional) From the **Auto-advance to next video after** dropdown menu, choose when to autoplay the next video.

7. (Optional) Click the **Custom Text** checkbox and enter a message. Read the following [Countdown Overlay](🔗) section to learn more about this message.

8. (Optional) Update the [Display Title](🔗).

9. Select the [Display Mode](🔗).

10. Click **Save**.

You have enabled Recommendations for all videos that are played within your selected player.

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## Customize the Recommendations experience

You can customize some of the default features of the recommendations experience:

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### Countdown Overlay

The countdown overlay only appears if you select **After 5 seconds, After 10 seconds, After 20 seconds**, or **After 30 seconds** from the **Auto-advance to next video after** dropdown menu. A white line traces the border of the next video to play as part of the countdown.

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The countdown overlay looks like the overlay display mode option. However, only the countdown overlay has a countdown and customizable message.

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Above the title and description of the next video to play, the countdown message displays. The default message is _Next up in X._ X represents the number of seconds remaining in the countdown. When you click **Display Custom Text**, you can customize this message.

You can use the following macros in your custom message. We suggest using \_\_\_title\__ will play in xx seconds_.

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### Display Title

The default display title for the Recommendations icon and countdown overlay is _More Videos_.

Depending on the selected **Display Mode**, this text appears in the locations listed in the following table.

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Use the following steps to customize this title:

1. In the **Display Title** textbox, click the **X** to remove the default display title.

2. Enter a title in the textbox to replace the default title.

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### Display Mode

The **Display Mode** determines how the recommended videos will be displayed to your viewers.

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