Reminds me of the work Next Big Sound has been doing.
Here's what the Next Big Sound dashboard looks like: http://i.imgur.com/MQBPfdm.png http://i.imgur.com/MQBPfdm.png
.. where "the music business is measuring success via popularity social media." (Including Wikipedia page views!)
According to Next Big Sound, Wikipedia page views by far have the strongest correlation to sales. (More than any other metric)
Check out their blog post for this and more information: http://blog.nextbigsound.com/post/37277146054/what-social-media-has-to-do-wi... http://blog.nextbigsound.com/post/37277146054/what-social-media-has-to-do-with-record-sales
See also:
* YouTube Developers Live: Next Big Sound Details their backend stack. Turns out it's written mostly in PHP, using Cassandra DB. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3m_weExKhA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3m_weExKhA
* Lightning talk: YouTube Analytics API This is where I found out about the Next Big Sound and saw Wikipedia in the screenshot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDnmeGgd8qc&t=4m51s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDnmeGgd8qc&t=4m51s
— Krinkle
On 27 Apr 2015, at 15:27, Alex Harrison alex.harrison@waytoblue.com wrote:
Hi Wikipedia analysts,
I work in product development for the Insights team at Way To Blue. We provide reports to major film studios to provide them with information about how their films are doing on social platforms over the course of their marketing campaign, up to a film’s release in cinemas.
We typically focus on social media volumes (and traditionally split by Twitter, Forums, Blogs and News), however I just stumbled across the free Wikipedia article traffic statistics site (http://stats.grok.se/ http://stats.grok.se/ ) and am thinking that daily Wikipedia traffic could be an interesting additional metric for us to report. I have a few questions about daily Wikipedia traffic data:
Are you affiliated with the site above, or do you independently cover traffic volume?Do you know if it is possible to attribute a source country to traffic count? E.g. I can see that the daily traffic on the Tomorrowland (film) page was 5773 yesterday, however it would be interesting what proportion of that is US vs. UK vs. etc.We have never used Wikipedia traffic as a source, so if you are the wrong team to be asking about this please let me know!
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