YouTube's Custom Feeds finally let you tell the algorithm what to show you
YouTube is expanding its Custom Feeds feature to allow users to generate personalized home feeds using text prompts. The platform is also enhancing its shopping experience with new Ask YouTube capabilities and comparison tools. Additionally, YouTube Music is introducing AI-driven podcast recommendations and improved queue customization features.
- ▪Custom Feeds will roll out to US users across mobile, web, and TV platforms without a specific release date.
- ▪Users can create multiple feeds based on text prompts to access content tailored to their mood or time of day.
- ▪Ask YouTube is being updated to include product categories and comparison tables to assist with shopping decisions.
- ▪YouTube Music is adding a weekly personalized AI audio guide for podcast recommendations.
- ▪The new YouTube Music features are expected to arrive globally soon, with some potentially requiring a Premium subscription.
4 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 6 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ YouTube is finally giving you more control over what shows up on your Home feed — Android Authority
- ▪ YouTube will let you build your own algorithm with AI — TechCrunch
- ▪ YouTube’s Custom Feeds Give You More Control Over the Algorithm — WIRED
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| Original publisher | Android Police |
| Canonical URL | https://www.androidpolice.com/youtube-custom-feeds-announcement/ |
| Publication time | Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:12:22 GMT |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-23T20:14:31.457Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-23T20:14:31.457Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
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| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | -VFDDdaA7u6k · 4 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
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| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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