The Influence of Audio Quality on the Popularity of Music Videos: A YouTube Case Study

Schöffler M, Herre J (2014)


Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2014

Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc

Edited Volumes: WISMM 2014 - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Internet-Scale Multimedia Management, Workshop of MM 2014

Pages Range: 35-38

Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings, First International Workshop on Internet-Scale Multimedia Management (ISMM '14)

Event location: Orlando, Florida US

ISBN: 978-1-4503-3157-9; DOI: 10.1145/2661714.2661725

URI: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2661725

DOI: 10.1145/2661714.2661725

Abstract

Video-sharing websites like YouTube contain many music videos. On such websites, the audio quality of these music videos can differ from poor to very good since the content is uploaded by users. The results of a previous study indicated that music videos are very popular in general among the users. This paper addresses the question whether the audio quality of music videos has an influence on user ratings. A generic system for measuring the audio quality on video-sharing websites is described. The system has been implemented and was deployed for evaluating the relationship between audio quality and video ratings on YouTube. The analysis of the results indicate that, contrary to popular expectation, the audio quality of music videos has surprisingly little influence on its appreciation by the YouTube user.

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APA:

Schöffler, M., & Herre, J. (2014). The Influence of Audio Quality on the Popularity of Music Videos: A YouTube Case Study. In Proceedings, First International Workshop on Internet-Scale Multimedia Management (ISMM '14) (pp. 35-38). Orlando, Florida, US: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.

MLA:

Schöffler, Michael, and Jürgen Herre. "The Influence of Audio Quality on the Popularity of Music Videos: A YouTube Case Study." Proceedings of the 2014 1st ACM International Workshop on Internet-Scale Multimedia Management, ISMM 2014, Co-located with the 2014 ACM International Conference on Multimedia, MM 2014, Orlando, Florida Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2014. 35-38.

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