Modeling and forecasting the popularity of YouTube videos

Many YouTube content owners currently make money from their videos by allowing YouTube to
display ads next to them. For these content owners, increasing the popularity of the video leads to
more revenue, and therefore it is of great importance. The purpose of this project is to design an
algorithm to predict the popularity of videos. The algorithm will look at past patterns of views for
videos and leverages this information to predict the future views for them. Using this algorithm,
YouTube content creators can get an estimate as to how popular their videos will become and
subsequently, how much money they will be making. They can then leverage this information to adjust
and adapt their marketing and content creation strategies.

Faculty Supervisor:

Jiangchuan Liu

Student:

Partner:

BroadbandTV

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program: