Method and server for providing content recommendation list

A server for providing a content recommendation list, which provides a content recommendation list to a user terminal, comprising:

• a communication unit;
• a content information receiving unit for receiving content information comprising at least three different types of ranking information including a first information, a second information, a third information and a release date information;
• a content group selection unit configured to:
• select a first content group comprising a first predetermined number of items of content from among the content by using the first ranking information;
• select a second content group comprising a second predetermined number of items of content from among the content by using the second ranking information;
• determine content that satisfies a predetermined condition based on the release date information and a result of comparing the day's ranking information and the previous day's ranking information for each item of the content;
• and
• when the number of contents satisfying the predetermined condition is less than the predetermined number, relax the predetermined condition to select a content group comprising the predetermined number of content items;
• a content recommendation list generation unit for generating a content recommendation list comprising at least one item of content from the first content group and at least one item of content from the second content group, on the basis of the third ranking information different from the first ranking information and the second ranking information;
• and
• a content recommendation list providing unit for providing the content recommendation list to the user terminal,
• wherein the relaxed condition is a condition in which at least one of a ranking change threshold based on the comparison between the day's ranking information and the previous day's ranking information, and a release date threshold based on the release date information, is set to be less restrictive than that of the predetermined condition.