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Understanding video-ad consumption on YouTube: a measurement study on user behavior, popularity, and content properties

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Faced with the challenge of attracting user attention and revenue, social media websites have turned to video advertisements (video-ads). While in traditional media the video-ad market is mostly based on an interaction between content providers and marketers, the use of video-ads in social media has enabled a more complex interaction, that also includes content creator and viewer preferences. To better understand this novel setting, we present the first data-driven analysis of video-ad exhibitions on YouTube.

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        WebSci '16: Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Web Science
        May 2016
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        ISBN:9781450342087
        DOI:10.1145/2908131

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