What’s occurred? YouTube simply rolled out its first-ever “Recap” characteristic for 2025, giving each consumer a personalised look again at what they watched this yr. It’s like your individual spotlight reel, exhibiting your high channels, shifting pursuits, and even assigning you a “viewer character sort.”

• If you happen to use YouTube Music, your yearly Recap can show further playing cards together with your high artists, songs, podcast habits, and worldwide listening spots.
• This characteristic is dwell for customers within the U.S., with international rollout set for the approaching days. You possibly can entry it by way of the “You” tab or a banner on the homepage.

Why it issues? YouTube Recap is just like how top music streaming services have dealt with private listening highlights, resembling Spotify’s Wrapped or Amazon Music’s Delivered.

• YouTube Recap presents as much as 12 interactive playing cards, every summarizing completely different parts of your exercise, resembling favourite creators, high channels, incessantly watched matters, viewing streaks, and the way your pursuits modified over time.
• Based mostly in your watch patterns, YouTube assigns you a “viewer character” resembling Adventurer, Ability Builder, Inventive Spirit, or Sunshiner, just like how music apps tag listening habits.

Recap doesn’t simply checklist stats; it appears for patterns in your viewing, like sudden shifts into cooking movies, or durations the place you explored music, podcasts, and creators from world wide.

Why ought to I care? YouTube says Recap is constructed on months of suggestions and dozens of design checks to unveil not simply what you watched, however who you’re as a viewer.

• If you happen to spend hours on YouTube, Recap turns your random scrolls, rabbit-hole hunts, and guilty-pleasure episodes right into a significant abstract.
• It’s a enjoyable solution to mirror in your yr and see what sort of movies outlined it, discover adjustments in your pursuits, or just look again on which creators saved you coming again.

YouTube Recap outcomes will also be shared on social media to indicate off your “viewer character” or help favourite channels.