Recommender systems rely on signals such as clicks, viewing history, purchases, and skips to predict what people might like. But past behavior only tells part of the story.
Picture this: your phone buzzes. It's your streaming app, and for once the notification is the one you actually wanted: "LIVE: your team just went 1–0 up, 78th minute”.
Personalization is never finished. Every change to your recommendation strategy raises new questions. Should you boost fresh content? Change used Logic? Introduce new filters?
The digital world continues to change at an incredible pace. As technology evolves and user expectations keep rising, creating experiences that feel relevant has never been more important.
In 2025, I became Head of Research at Recombee. I knew it would be a challenge: and I wasn’t wrong. Recombee is a leader in recommendation-as-a-service, with thousands of clients...
2025 marked 10 years of Recombee. A decade of building personalization from first principles, shaped by research, real-world deployments, and close collaboration with partners across industries.
In 2025, we focused on making advanced personalization easier to implement, scale, and maintain across products and platforms. Here’s a look at the key product updates we released last year.
Here’s what caught my attention in AI research lately, and where things might be heading in 2026. After 25+ years in this field, the pace has gotten hard to keep up with. I’m trying to make sense of...
Learning objectives of recommender systems and personalized search.
Personalization can be achieved without compromising user privacy. While many personalization systems have historically relied on practices now considered intrusive, like...
At Recombee, we don't just excel at recommendations – we provide powerful full-text search capabilities too. Our Quick, No-Code Search Widget exemplifies this, offering a seamless...
From ancient trade routes to modern urban planning, geography has consistently shaped human decisions and opportunities. Today, in the world of online business and personalized recommendations...
Imagine searching for "glass tubing" and getting recommendations for drug manufacturing equipment. As AI-powered search becomes ubiquitous — from online marketplaces to social networks...
As recommender systems become more widespread across digital platforms, concerns around fairness are coming to the forefront. Standard relevance-based ranking techniques, while effective...
When it comes to deciding between buying a recommender system and building one from scratch, the choice isn’t always straightforward. Both options come with their own set of pros and cons...
Why do influencers frequently request their subscribers to enable all notifications for their channels? This practice stems from their awareness that not all subscribers are regular...
Recombee has always been deeply connected to academia, with four of our six co-founders holding Ph.D. degrees. Over the years, our investment in research has grown alongside our company and the increasing demand for advanced features in the market.
The way news is produced, delivered, and consumed keeps shifting, and as we move through 2025, a few big changes have become impossible to ignore.
As we wrap up 2024, let’s take a moment to celebrate the milestones we’ve achieved together. Your collaboration and feedback have been at the heart of our progress. Here’s a quick recap of last year’s highlights.
With Recombee’s AI-powered recommendation engine working with DIAGNAL Enhance, CMGO serves up personalised experiences for each viewer, driving engagement for the service.
In this webinar we look into building a data-driven video backend geared towards personalized video recommendations, integration with Axinom Mosaic, and how to transform user experiences on streaming platforms.
This collaboration is set to introduce a new era of personalized and engaging digital user experiences.
Data used by modern recommenders and how we can measure progress towards goals.
Segment has enabled its users to enjoy Recombee personalization services without the need to leave their platform and with minimum coding involved. With a few simple clicks, domains using Segment can upgrade their services to maximize the digital experience for their customers.
Picture this: you're on the hunt for the perfect new smartphone, browsing through your favourite online electronics store. The online store’s recommendation engine pops up with what it thinks could be your possible next gadget love...
Recombeelab, a joint research laboratory of Recombee and the Faculty of Information Technology at the Czech Technical University in Prague, experienced a highly productive year in 2023, publishing a series of insightful and impactful papers in the field of recommendation systems.
We look at the most interesting research directions and assess the state of knowledge in key areas of AI. We'll also estimate future developments in 2024 so you know what to prepare for.
Recommender systems and ethical controversies
In today's digital age, personalization has become the cornerstone of the media industry. Whether it's tailoring content recommendations, refining marketing strategies, or enhancing user experiences...
How machine learning methods simplify item discovery and search.
In my presentation at the Data Technology Seminar organized by the European Broadcasting Union, I have focused on demonstrating that recommender systems can actually help public media organizations to better fulfill their role in society and reduce content distribution biases.
Matrix completion (MC), the problem of recovering the missing entries of a partially observed matrix, has found use in a wide range of domains. Still, its potentially most successful application is as a collaborative filtering technique for recommender systems (RSs)...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly transformed the media industry in recent years. From automated news production to trend analysis and personalized content recommendations, AI has brought significant changes to the way media is created, distributed, and consumed.
At Recombee, we felt the transition within the media industry accelerated by the pandemic. OTT and CTV consumption ballooned at a significant rate.
Do you manage a publishing company, online gaming platform, or a streaming site with a content-heavy catalog and are thinking about how to improve the user experience?
Recombee expanded its integration options - and now is available at the Kentico Xperience platform! Analyzing different types of personalization, we look into why Kentiko chose our AI-powered recommendation engine over manual segmentation.
Accurate “next basket prediction” will be enabling next generation e-commerce — predictive shopping and logistics. In this blogpost, we will discuss the deep learning technology behind next basket...
Together with the endless expansion of E-commerce and online media in the last years, there are more and more Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)…
The e-commerce boom makes online environment more competitive. Internet retailers seek competitive advantages and a personalized experience…
At Recombee, we “think big”, and prefer making big leaps in technology over taking small steps. Our team has been involved in data science and artificial intelligence research for many years. Beginning in 2012, we began to capitalize our knowledge and experience, developing products which…
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