Tune your taste: tell us why you loved it, not just that you did
A rating tells us you enjoyed something. It doesn't tell us what you enjoyed about it.
Two people can love the same slow, quiet drama for completely different reasons. One is there for the performances, the other for the pace. If we only know that both of them liked it, it's hard to recommend the right next title to either one.
Taste tuning is how we close that gap. After you favorite a title, you can tell Contentualize what made it click, and your picks lean that way.
How taste tuning works
Choose one of your favorites and you get one question: what made it click?
Below it is a list of things people often love about a title. Select the ones that are true for you. They're grouped so they're easy to scan:
- Tone. The mood of it.
- Story. What happens and how it's told.
- Characters. Who you spent time with.
- Pace. How fast or slow it moves.
- World and craft. The setting, the writing, and how it was made.
If the genre a title was filed under doesn't feel right, you can also say where it fits best. When you're done, lock in your choices and they're saved to your taste profile.
Ratings vs. taste tuning
Your picks are built from your ratings. Ratings cover lots of titles and tell us what you liked.
Tuning is narrower. It's only for your favorites, and it adds the reason behind the titles you care about most. Two things follow from that.
Your picks can lean toward what you actually loved, not just toward titles that look similar on paper. If you told us it was the found family, we have something to go on beyond the genre label.
We can tell you why we chose something. A pick that comes with a reason is easier to trust. It's also easier to skip when the reason doesn't fit you, which beats a card with no explanation.
You stay in control of your taste profile
Your taste profile is a page you can read. Open it and you'll see what you've told us about your favorites, grouped by genre. If you change your mind about what you loved, you can tune that title again.
If you want a clean slate, there's a reset. It clears what you told us about your favorites. Your ratings and history stay exactly as they are. You only lose the extra detail you added on top.
Where tuning fits in the daily loop
The basic loop hasn't changed. You rate titles in Discover, and once you reach 5 ratings in a day, you get a fresh batch of For You picks.
Tuning sits alongside that loop, not inside it. You can do it whenever you have a favorite you want to talk about. Free members can tune one favorite a day, and Contentualize Plus removes that limit.
New to the daily loop? The For You guide walks through it from the beginning.
Help us get the list right
This is a new part of the app, and the list of things people love about a title won't be perfect on the first try. If a favorite is missing the one thing that made you love it, let us know through the support page. That's how the list gets better.