Image Credits:YouTube8:35 AM PST · December 2, 2025
It’s that clip of twelvemonth erstwhile companies are rolling retired their Spotify Wrapped-like end-of-year recaps, letting users revisit the contented they engaged with the most. While YouTube has offered a YouTube Music recap for the past fewer years, the level announced connected Tuesday that it’s present launching a abstracted acquisition for videos watched connected the main service.
YouTube Recap features up to 12 personalized cards that item a user’s apical channels, interests, the improvement of their viewing habits, and personality-type duty based connected their watching preferences.
For instance, the “Skill Builder” property benignant goes to users who are drawn to contented that helps make skills, portion “Sunshiners” gravitate toward contented that spreads positivity. “Trailblazers” ticker contented that’s archetypal and challenges the norm.
Other property types see the “Wonder Seeker,” the “Connector,” and the “Dreamer,” among others.
Users volition besides beryllium capable to spot their apical artists and songs of the year, but they tin get deeper insights successful the YouTube Music app with their yearly YouTube Music Recap, which started rolling retired past week.
Image Credits:YouTubeRecap is disposable starting contiguous for YouTube users successful North America, with a planetary rollout coming this week. Users tin find their Recap straight connected the YouTube homepage oregon nether the “You” tab. Recaps are accessible connected mobile devices and desktop.
YouTube says the caller diagnostic was requested by users and that it conducted implicit 50 antithetic conception tests earlier landing connected the last product.
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Alongside the motorboat of Recap, YouTube besides released inclination charts showcasing the apical creators, podcasts, and songs of the year.
MrBeast took the fig 1 spot for apical creator for the sixth twelvemonth successful a row. The apical podcast spot went to “The Joe Rogan Experience,” portion Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga took the fig 1 spot for apical opus with “Die With A Smile.”
YouTube Recap arrives the aforesaid time arsenic Apple Music’s Replay and Amazon Music’s Delivered. Spotify has yet to merchandise its highly-anticipated Wrapped, suggesting that different companies are looking to get the leap connected societal media sharing.
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