What is Yandex Zen?
Yandex Zen is a content aggregation and recommendation platform created by Yandex, a Russian multinational technology company. It provides users with a personalized feed of articles, videos, and other media content tailored to their interests and preferences.
The service uses artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms to get to know each user's tastes based on their engagement with content on the platform. As users read, watch, like, share, and otherwise interact with items in their feed, Yandex Zen gradually builds a profile of their interests.
It then uses this profile to populate users' feeds with additional pieces of content that are likely to satisfy their preferences. This might include news stories, explanatory videos, viral social posts, and more. The goal is to provide a steady stream of engaging material catered to each person.
Yandex Zen is available as a mobile app for Android and iOS devices as well as a website. The experience is similar across platforms, automatically delivering new personalized content in an easy-to-consume, scrollable feed format. Additional features allow users to save content for later, share with others, leave comments, and more.
The service first launched in 2019 and has grown in popularity for its ability to deliver intriguing, highly relevant content without requiring users to actively search for topics that interest them. The AI algorithms underpinning it aim to handle discovering and recommending content so users can passively enjoy tailored feeds.
Feedly, Flipboard, Inoreader, Reeder , NetNewsWire, QuiteRSS, Tiny Tiny RSS, Fluent Reader, The Old Reader, NewsBlur, Feedbro, Feeder RSS feed reader, Notify by Facebook are some alternatives to Yandex Zen.