Popularity analysis of a video-on-demand service with a great variety of content types: influence of the subject and video characteristics

Abstract

This paper presents the popularity analysis performed on the www.lne.es video-on-demand service, which is part of the digital version of one of the most important newspapers in Spain. Its most special characteristics are the wide range of subjects (events, music, culture, tourism, nature, sports, etc) and the type of contents offered (long life, seasonal, etc), which make it an interesting case study. The analysis pays attention to the influence of the subject and the video characteristics on the popularity. Moreover, the results are checked for short and long periods of time. This study has been performed thanks to a log database with more than 170,000 requests of almost 1000 videos stored over a period of 4 years.