Social media platforms have democratized the process of web content creation allowing
mere consumers to become creators and distributors of content. But this has also contributed …

Content popularity prediction finds application in many areas, including media advertising,
content caching, movie revenue estimation, traffic management and macro-economic trends …

Predicting Web content popularity is an important task for supporting the design and
evaluation of a wide range of systems, from targeted advertising to effective search and …

News articles are an engaging type of online content that captures the attention of a
significant amount of Internet users. They are particularly enjoyed by mobile users and …

Understanding user participation is fundamental in anticipating the popularity of online
content. In this paper, we explore how the number of users' comments during a short …

In the current Web 2.0 era, the popularity of Web resources fluctuates ephemerally, based
on trends and social interest. As a result, content-based relevance signals are insufficient to …

Predicting the popularity of content is important for both the host and users of social media
sites. The challenge of this problem comes from the inequality of the popularity of content …

User generated content (UGC) has emerged as the predominant form of media publishing
on the Web 2.0. Motivated by the large adoption of video sharing on the Web 2.0, the …

As social networks become a major source of information, predicting the outcome of
information diffusion has appeared intriguing to both researchers and practitioners. By …

Popularity of content in social media is unequally distributed, with some items receiving a
disproportionate share of attention from users. Predicting which newly-submitted items will …