YouTube has long sought to remake television for the web, and now it has an Emmy to show for it. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences said today that the Google-owned video service has won a technical Emmy for its personalized video recommendations. The Emmy honors the computer science that powers YouTube’s recommendation algorithm, which suggests clips to watch based on a person’s viewing history, popular videos, and other signals.
The Emmy, which will be presented in January at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, recognizes YouTube’s efforts to guide its 1 billion monthly users through the world’s largest video library. "What’s remarkable is that the biggest problem we hear from viewers is they can’t...
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