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. --- 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@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 _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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