Science communication on YouTube: Factors that affect channel and video popularity

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The Lifecyle of a Youtube Video: Phases, Content and Popularity

This paper proposes a new representation to explain and predict popularity evolution in social media. Recent work on social networks has led to insights about the popularity of a digital item. For example, both the content and the network matters, and gaining early popularity is critical. However, these observations did not paint a full picture of popularity evolution; some open questions inclu...

Forecasting popularity of videos in YouTube

This paper proposes a new prediction process to explain and predict popularity evolution of Youtube videos. We exploit our recent study on the classification of YouTube videos in order to predict the evolution of videos’ view-count. This classification allows to identify important factors of the observed popularity dynamics. Our experimental results show that our prediction process is able to r...

Will This Video Go Viral? Explaining and Predicting the Popularity of Youtube Videos

What makes content go viral? Which videos become popular and why others don’t? Such questions have elicited significant attention from both researchers and industry, particularly in the context of online media. A range of models have been recently proposed to explain and predict popularity; however, there is a short supply of practical tools, accessible for regular users, that leverage these th...

The Entropy of Attention and Popularity in YouTube Videos

The vast majority of YouTube videos never become popular, languishing in obscurity with few views, no likes, and no comments. We use information theoretical measures based on entropy to examine how time series distributions of common measures of popularity in videos from YouTube’s “Trending videos” and “Most recent” video feeds relate to the theoretical concept of attention. While most of the v...