Compare Y. Borghol et al. 2011 and The Untold Story of the Clones: Content-agnostic Factors that Impact YouTube Video Popularity
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Problem
Although both papers study the popularity dynamics of user-generated videos, the focus is quite different. Paper 1 tries to characterize the evolution of YouTube video popularity in a general sense, while Paper 2 focuses on the content-agnostic factors only, and deliberately removes the impact that might be caused by video content. In paper 1, a three-phase evolution model is proposed to explain the popularity dynamics, while paper 2 does not have such characterization.
Dataset
Paper 1 uses a