Recommendations and reviews on content: what they are, how they work, and how to make the most of them

When a customer loves something you've created, a recommendation gives them a simple way to say, “I liked this, and I think other people will too.”

Curios uses recommendations rather than traditional reviews or star ratings. Recommendations are built into content on Curios automatically, giving customers an easy way to endorse books, albums, shows, films, and other products they've enjoyed.

As a creator, you can see and manage the recommendations you've received directly from Curios Creator Studio.

What's the difference between a recommendation and a review?

Traditional reviews and ratings typically ask customers to evaluate a product. A five-star rating system, for example, can include everything from a glowing five-star review to a negative one-star rating.

Curios takes a different approach.

Recommendations are positive by design. Instead of asking customers to rate your work from good to bad, Curios gives customers who enjoyed it an opportunity to recommend it to other people.

Think of it as the digital equivalent of telling a friend:

This distinction matters. Recommendations aren't intended to be another public review system. They're a way for people who genuinely enjoyed your work to endorse it and help other potential customers discover something they might enjoy, too.

Do I need to enable recommendations?

No.

Recommendations are automatically built into the content you publish on Curios, whether that content is available for sale or claim.

There's nothing additional to activate or configure before customers can start recommending your work.

How customers recommend your content

Customers can recommend products they have in their Curios library, including through the Curios mobile app.

When someone chooses to recommend your product, that positive endorsement becomes part of Curios' recommendation system.

This means the people who are actually reading, listening to, watching, and enjoying your work have a simple way to signal that they'd recommend it to someone else.

How to see your recommendations in Creator Studio

You can see the recommendations your products have received from the Reports section of Curios Creator Studio.

1. Log in to Curios Creator Studio.
2. Select Reports from the main navigation.
3. Select Recommendations.
4. You'll see the recommendations your content has received.

Each recommendation identifies the associated product and indicates that the customer Liked this.

From this page, you can also search your recommendations, filter them, and manage how individual recommendations are handled.

Find recommendations for specific products

As your catalog and number of recommendations grow, you can narrow the report to find what you're looking for.

Use the available controls to:

• Search your recommendations.
• Select Liked to view positive recommendations.
• Select Disliked to access the corresponding filter where applicable.
• Use All Products to filter recommendations by a particular product.

This can be especially useful for creators with larger catalogs who want to see recommendations associated with a particular book, album, show, film, bundle, or other product.

Feature a recommendation

Received a recommendation you particularly want people to see? You can mark it as Featured.

From Reports → Recommendations, find the recommendation you want to highlight and turn on the Featured toggle.

The recommendation will then be marked Featured in your Studio report.

Featuring gives you control over which customer endorsements you want to prioritize for public display.

You can change this setting at any time.

Hide a recommendation

Creators also have control over whether a recommendation's comment is displayed publicly.

To hide one:

1. Go to Reports → Recommendations.
2. Find the recommendation you want to manage.
3. Turn on the Hidden toggle.

Hiding a recommendation prevents its comment from being displayed publicly.

You can change the setting again later if you decide you want it displayed.

What happens with dislikes?

Customers can also indicate that something wasn't for them.

There's nothing you need to do to keep a dislike private. It's hidden automatically. In your Recommendations report, a dislike is marked Automatically Hidden and doesn't have the Hidden or Featured toggles, because it's never shown publicly in the first place.

Instead, dislikes are used as a signal. They help Curios and its creators understand what to recommend to a particular customer in the future, so the products someone is shown are more likely to be ones they'll actually enjoy.

How to make the most of recommendations

Recommendations become more valuable as more customers engage with your work.

You don't need to manage them constantly, but it's worth periodically visiting Reports → Recommendations to see which products customers are responding to and manage the recommendations you've received.

A few simple habits can help:

Recommendations can help the next customer discover something they'll love

Direct-to-fan selling is about more than the transaction. It's about building connections between creators, their audiences, and the next person who might love what they've created.

Recommendations give your existing customers a simple way to participate in that process.

You publish your work. Your audience experiences it. And when someone loves it enough to recommend it, that enthusiasm can help the next potential customer discover it.