| 摘要 |
Example apparatus and methods concern automatically creating editorial content for albums that are to be recommended in a computerized music marketplace. An album may be selected for recommendation after analyzing consumption data (e.g., sales, downloads, samples), and popularity data (e.g., chart rankings, critical reviews). The popularity data may also include data mined from sources including search engines and social media sites. An overall recommendation score may be a weighted function of consumption data and popularity data. A customized recommendation score may be a weighted function of the overall recommendation score influenced by regional considerations, demographic considerations, and other considerations. The editorial content may include art and text and may be customized based on regional considerations, demographic considerations, and based on other art or text that will appear at the same time as the editorial content. |
| 主权项 |
1. A method, comprising:
controlling an automated album scoring process to acquire static information for a set of albums and to acquire dynamic information for the set of albums; controlling the automated album scoring process to select a genre for which an album recommendation is to be made, to select a region for which the album recommendation is to be made, to select a classification for which the album recommendation is to be made, and to select a demographic for which the album recommendation is to be made; controlling the automated album scoring process to produce a raw score for a member of the set of albums as a function of the static information, the dynamic information, the genre, the region, the classification, and the demographic; controlling an automated recommendation process to acquire a set of ratios associated with recommendations in a music marketplace, to acquire a set of thresholds associated with recommendations in the music marketplace, and to acquire a set of time constraints associated with recommendations in the music marketplace, where the set of ratios, set of thresholds, and set of time constraints control, at least in part, whether an album will be recommended in the music marketplace; controlling the automated recommendation process to acquire a set of weights that control, at least in part, the relative importance to a recommendation score of the genre, the region, the classification, the demographic, members of the set of ratios, members of the set of thresholds, or members of the set of time constraints; controlling the automated recommendation process to produce the recommendation score for the member of the set of albums as a function of the raw score, the set of ratios, the set of thresholds, the set of time constraints, and the set of weights; selecting the member of the set of albums as a recommended album based, at least in part, on the recommendation score, and automatically generating editorial content for the music marketplace for the recommended album. |
