YouTube rolls out personalised ‘Recap’ highlighting users’ top creators, trends
Recap will appear on users’ homepages, inside the “You” tab, or on a dedicated recap page on desktop.
YouTube is launching its first full-platform year-end review, called YouTube Recap, giving users a personalised look at their 2025 viewing habits.
The release marks the first time the platform has created a dedicated recap for video-watching, separate from its long-running YouTube Music version.
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Rolling out this week, YouTube Recap provides viewers with a set of interactive cards that highlight their most-watched creators, top interests, and shifts in viewing trends throughout the year.
Unlike the music-focused Recap available in YouTube Music, this new feature analyses what users watched across the entire platform, from tutorials and livestreams to comedy, gaming, commentary, vlogs, and more.
YouTube says the new Recap was designed to capture “the personality behind your watch history”, not just the numbers.
To do that, the system assigns users a viewing “identity” based on patterns in what they watched over the year.
Early examples include personalities like “The Adventurer”, “The Skill Builder” and “The Dreamer", each reflecting different types of content exploration.
Each Recap includes up to a dozen shareable cards, encouraging users to post their results across social platforms, mirroring the viral success of Spotify Wrapped and other end-of-year digital summaries.
A long-requested feature
For years, viewers have asked YouTube to create a platform-wide version of Wrapped, and creators have used fan-made tools to guess their audience’s behaviour.
The new Recap answers that demand directly, offering viewers an official, polished breakdown.
The move also benefits creators. Channels that appear frequently in user Recaps could see a boost as fans share their cards, effectively turning the feature into a new wave of organic promotion.
Recap will appear on users’ homepages, inside the “You” tab, or on a dedicated recap page on desktop.
YouTube notes that the feature is only available for regular accounts, not for supervised or restricted profiles.
The company says it expects Recap to become an annual tradition, one that reflects not only what people watched, but how online video shaped their year.
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