[Air-L] Any research on/with YouTube API?

[Steven Clift]

I thought I'd mention that I received some quite useful off list replies.

Now a new idea/offer ...

Would anyone here like to do some data analysis on comparative YouTube
adoption by television news stations.

I am seeing some interesting trends that need some quantification:

1. How many videos does a channel upload each day? (I have a growing list
of channels.)
- How has that changed over time?
- How does usage compare over time?
- Comparing say the top ten global video channels how do they use YouTube
differently? Viewership trends.

I am particularly curious about why the BBC seems to put so little news
video content on YouTube when produce so much? And why Scotland et al has
so little BBC content shared with the wider world?

Comparing "external services," I'd love to see how France 24 compares to
VOA, RT, CTGN, etc. There is a big story perhaps in how poorly the VOA is
leveraging YouTube especially with live streaming opportunities.

2. How do countries compare in terms of YouTube take up? India, Taiwan,
Pakistan, and Latin America generally are on fire in terms of their use of
YouTube for streaming live news video channels.

I'd love to see some analysis about this over time.

Anyway, I'd be glad to help share some of my growing data list on news
channels on YouTube and ideas on what more to collect, analyze, and
visualize. I'd love to crowd source more channel links with a multi-lingual
group of grad students, etc.

Thanks,
Steven Clift

P.S. People like the app - http://tvnewsapp.com - 4.7 rating, reached 500
downloads quickly with little advertising, climbing the charts on Google
Play for searches like "tv news" "news video" ... give them a try, search
that then install http://play.google.com - I would guess just ten people
searching that in a day and then selecting my app would bump the app up
organically in search "ASO" as they called it.

On Wed, Mar 6, 2019, 9:48 PM Steven Clift <slc at publicus.net> wrote:

> So I stumbled into a developer who created one of those "floating" YouTube
> music video players.
>
> After six years of curating the original radio news "flash briefing," I
> thought hey, why not try video.
>
> Combining forces on Android (so far) we've come up with:
>
>      http://tvnewsapp.com
>
> So, here's the deal. The YouTube API is pretty darn interesting and I'd
> love to connect with researchers who are experimenting with it.
>
> I am interested in ways to better automate how to surface live news
> streams. The app has scores of these. I never expected so many from so many
> countries. Some countries clearly are all in with nearly all news channels
> competing on Facebook while others while free on the web haven't joined the
> YouTube club.
>
> Anyway, get in touch if you've dug into the YouTube API. Heck perhaps we
> can even collaborate.
>
> Cheers,
> Steven Clift
>
> P.S. My 150K downloads radio news app: http://1radionews.com
>