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-w…
<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(a)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!
Best regards
Alex
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