--- title: "Buyer-guided discovery with Section ranking (Intent Survey)" slug: "/help/playlists/section-ranking" topic: "playlists" last_updated: "2026-09-28T13:03:55.789Z" --- ## **Overview** **Section ranking** turns the welcome screen of a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure (CYOA) playlist into a lightweight **intent survey**: before the buyer picks a section to explore, they drag the sections into the order that matters most to them. Their ranking then powers Insights so you can see, at scale, **what buyers actually prioritize** across every viewing of the playlist. Use Section ranking when you want to: - Ask a buyer what matters most **before** they navigate — instead of guessing from clickstream data afterward. - Compare the story you tell (your section order) with the story your buyers want to hear (their ranking). - Roll up buyer priorities across an account, a segment, or the whole book of business, and feed that back to product/marketing. Watch demo to learn more --- ## **Turn on Section ranking for a playlist** Section ranking is an **entry-page type** on the CYOA welcome screen. You pick it in the CYOA editor. 1. Open the playlist and switch to the **CYOA editor** view. 2. In the entry-screen mode picker, choose **Section ranking** (a.k.a. **Intent Survey**). 3. Fill in the opening line and context that will appear above the ranking widget on the welcome screen (for example: _"What matters most to you? Drag to reorder."_). 4. Build your sections in the **Section ranking editor tab**: - Add each section by name. - Attach entity chips (screens, sub-demos, embedded content) that belong to each section — drag them in from the entity list on the side. - Reorder sections by dragging their handles; the order you set here is the **default order** the buyer sees before they change it. 5. Publish the playlist. You can switch back to a standard Welcome page or another entry mode at any time — the ranking data lives on the playlist and isn't lost when you toggle the mode off. --- ## **What the buyer sees** On the welcome screen, the buyer sees: - Your **opening line and context** at the top. - A card listing every section, in the default order you set. - A **drag handle** on each section, so they can reorder from most to least important. - A **Start my demo** button. When they click **Start my demo**, the "Your playlist" sidebar slides in with the sections **in their ranked order** — so they can walk the demo in the sequence they care about, not the one you happened to author. If a buyer decides mid-demo that they got it wrong, the player sidebar exposes a **Change my ranking** control that reopens the ranking screen. --- ## **Insights and analytics** Once buyers start ranking, Section ranking data flows into Playlist Insights alongside your existing analytics. **KPI tiles** - **Ranking completion %** — how many viewers who reached the welcome screen actually submitted a ranking. - **Sections per viewer** — the average number of sections a viewer marked before starting. **Buyer priorities card** A dedicated card next to the items table shows, per section, how buyers rated it. Each row uses neutral color segments with a legend so you can compare priority distributions across sections at a glance. Hover a segment for the exact count; long section titles are truncated with a tooltip. **What they said mattered** A panel + one-sentence summary highlighting the sections that most viewers ranked in their top slot. **Sessions table** - A **Top priority** column shows the section each viewer put first. - A **Their ranking** column in the session drawer shows the full ranking that viewer submitted, with a tri-state time indicator for how long they spent per section. - Both are included in the **CSV export**. **Items table** - The items-analytics table gains **Section** and **Signal** columns so you can pivot per-item engagement against the ranking signal for that section. --- ## **FAQs** ### **Can I still use a normal Welcome page instead?** Yes. Section ranking is one of several entry-page modes on a CYOA playlist. Pick **Welcome page** in the entry-screen mode picker to revert to a standard welcome. ### **Do buyers have to rank every section?** No. The ranking is optional. If a buyer skips it and clicks **Start my demo**, they enter the playlist in your default section order and are counted against **Ranking completion %** as a non-completion. ### **What happens if I add or remove a section after buyers have ranked?** Existing sessions keep the ranking they submitted. New viewers see the current section list. Sessions taken before the change stay attached to the section IDs they ranked. ### **Can buyers change their ranking mid-demo?** Yes — the player sidebar exposes a **Change my ranking** control that reopens the ranking screen. Their new ranking replaces the previous one for that session. ### **Where do I see who ranked what?** Open **Playlist Insights** for the playlist. The Buyer priorities card gives you the roll-up; the Sessions table's **Top priority** column and the per-session drawer's **Their ranking** column give you the per-viewer detail.