We have freemium users I want to convert to paid subscribers. Can I actually tune the recommender to push them toward subscription - or is that too manual to set up?
Yes. Recommendation systems can be configured to serve business objectives beyond engagement, including subscription conversion. For freemium users, the system can prioritize content behind the paywall or content that historically preceded subscription in similar users' journeys. Both approaches use existing data - paywall boundaries and past conversion sequences - rather than requiring manual curation. This makes conversion a measurable recommendation objective: it becomes testable whether users shown paywall-adjacent content convert at a higher rate than those shown standard recommendations.