METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EFFICIENTLY COMPILING MEDIA CONTENT ITEMS FOR A MEDIA-ON-DEMAND PLATFORM

摘要

For the negotiation of an operator of a media-on-demand platform with its content providers a method and system for efficiently compiling media content items for the media-on-demand platform is provided. The method makes use of a combination of a recommender system to select a suitable set of media content items to be offered for a next period of service and a number-of-rentals predictor for estimating how many videos individual users will rent the following period of service. Furthermore, the method and system can be executed for estimating profit or loss from rentals over the following period of service as well as estimate customer satisfaction.