[Air-L] YouTube Data

[Alex Leavitt]

Hi Megan,

I've been working on a YouTube data project for about a year now. The kind
of granularity that you're asking for doesn't reeeeally exist... but you
can get data for users and video metadata, but you'd also need some skills
dealing with YouTube's API. You can theoretically string together a network
of recommended videos (I've seen a visualization of it, but I can't find
the link...). Also, unless you have direct access to the analytics for each
video (by having it under your account), I'm fairly certain that you can't
see stats regarding use of the videos on external sites.

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Alexander Leavitt
PhD Student
USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
http://alexleavitt.com
Twitter: @alexleavitt



On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Megan Zahay <meganzahay at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I have been lurking on the list for about a year now and really enjoying
> the wealth of insights and information, but this is my first addition to
> it. I am currently working on a project which would like to track the
> network of some YouTube videos, so that includes things like referrals from
> other videos, embedding videos on external sites, video comments, text
> comments, etc. I would also like to use any demographic data available. Can
> anyone inform me about the reliability of the statistics provided on
> YouTube itself for each video, or point me in the direction of some
> publications on the subject? Additionally, if anyone is aware of any
> programs that would allow me to view the network between groups of videos
> or research that has been done in this area I would be very appreciative.
>
> Thank you in advance!
>
> Megan Zahay
> B.A. Arcadia University
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