Search & Recommendations

$34M Generated Using Search & Recommendations for Digital Marketplaces

How a global digital content marketplace combined personalized search and recommendations to achieve +20.7% revenue increase from search and +7.2% from recommendations.

$34M

Revenue Impact

+20.7%

Search Revenue

+7.2%

Reco Revenue

+89%

Conversion Rate

The Challenge

This digital marketplace serves millions of users with thousands of community-created items for a mass video game. Users struggled to discover relevant content — the search had a 10% zero-result rate, and generic recommendation lists drove low engagement. The marketplace needed both better search and personalized discovery to increase creator revenue and platform growth.

The Solution

We built a dual personalization system covering both search and discovery. For recommendations, we personalized the homepage based on user taste profiles, and on each product page we surfaced similar items and more content from the same creator. For search, we used a technique that combined exact term matching with contextual understanding and revenue signals, then personalized results by factoring in each user's past interactions with items to surface the most relevant content first.

Results

Measurable impact across key metrics

Revenue from Search

Before

Baseline

After

+20.7%

+20.7%

Revenue from Reco

Before

Baseline

After

+7.2%

+7.2%

Conversion Rate

Before

1.8%

After

3.4%

+89%

Zero Result Rate

Before

10%

After

2%

-80%
The combined search and recommendation system generated $34M in value — $18M from personalized search (+20.7% revenue increase) and $16M from recommendations (+7.2% revenue increase).

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