Display of videos based on referrers

摘要

A system and method for determining popularity of a video based in part on requests for the video received from a referrer, grouping videos whose popularity based on requests from referrers exceeds a threshold and displaying those videos in a channel or providing them in a web feed.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving on a client device a request to view a first page of a video hosting site; displaying on the client device the first page received from the video hosting site, the first page including representations of a plurality of third party websites that include embedded videos hosted by the video hosting site; and responsive to receiving on the client device a request to view a second page of the video hosting website associated with a third party website from the plurality, displaying on the client device the second page received from the video hosting site, the second page including representations of a plurality of videos hosted by the video hosting site and embedded on the third party website, for each of the plurality of videos a representation of the video is included on the second page in response to a percentage exceeding a threshold, the percentage indicating from a total number of requests to view the video a number of requests initiated through the third party website.