Identifying viral videos

摘要

The present invention enables methods and systems that identify viral videos. A viral video is a video which received a percentage of its views from one person sharing the video with another person. That is, a viral video received most of its views from person to person sharing. A video hosting server determines whether a video is a viral video based at least in part on views the video received through person to person sharing and the total number of views the video has received.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for identifying a viral video hosted on a video hosting website, the method comprising:
determining a set of views received by the video; classifying, for each of the views in the set, a source that referred the video to a viewer as either a social source or a non-social source; determining a ratio of a total number of views of the video that were referred to the viewer by social sources to a total number of views in the set of views received by the video; and identifying the video as a viral video in response to the ratio exceeding a ratio threshold.