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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Papers

1. Characterizing and modelling popularity of user-generated videos, Y. Borghol et al., Performance Evaluation 68 2011

2. The Untold Story of the Clones: Content-agnostic Factors that Impact YouTube Video Popularity, Y Borghol et al., KDD, 2012.

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

Problem