YouTube introduces its own version of Spotify Wrapped for videos

YouTube is rolling retired a caller roundup acquisition that lets you rapidly reappraisal your astir notable video habits implicit the past year. The Recap diagnostic “uniquely highlights interests, heavy dives, and moments” based connected your ticker history, according to YouTube’s announcement, providing up to 12 cards that spotlight apical channels, interests, and however your sensation successful videos has changed implicit time.

It appears akin to Spotify’s end-of-year Wrapped experience, which different services similar Apple Music and Amazon Music person besides riffed connected successful caller years. YouTube’s Recap diagnostic volition adjacent delegate users a “personality type” based connected viewing habits, specified arsenic Adventurer, Skill Builder, and Creative Spirit — which look comparable to Spotify’s listening property types.

Recap is launching for YouTube users successful the US starting today, and volition rotation retired globally this week. The diagnostic is disposable connected some mobile devices and desktop, and tin beryllium recovered by selecting the dedicated fastener connected the YouTube homepage oregon nether the “You” tab successful the idiosyncratic menu.

Some stats related to listening and watching music, specified arsenic your apical artists and songs, volition besides beryllium included successful Recap, though it’s not replacing the existing Recap acquisition for YouTube Music that provides an yearly reappraisal of apical artists, songs, genres, and podcasts. YouTube Music app users volition inactive person “a abstracted YouTube Music Recap disposable wrong that app,” according to a YouTube enactment page.

Alongside the video Recap launch, YouTube besides shared immoderate inclination charts that amusement which topics, creators, podcasts, and songs person been the astir fashionable with US users this year. Some stats aren’t particularly astonishing — MrBeast remains the apical creator and The Joe Rogan Experience holds the fig 1 spot successful the podcast rankings, for illustration — but it’s absorbing to spot that the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack was little fashionable successful Shorts compared to its domination connected the wide apical songs chart.