Viralness Calculator
YouTube currently ranks videos based on the number of likes and the number of views – but both separately. However, this isn’t a particularly interesting way of ranking videos, and a few friends and I decided to build a simple formula that calculates how viral a video is – taking in number of views, days it has been up for, likes and dislikes. This allows us to compute how popular a video is, and the timescale that it has got popular in. To this post I have attached a spreadsheet that can calculate the viralness of a video, but here is the rough formula for it:
Viralness formula
Therefore, with this formula we can establish the following of these videos as of today, 24th May 2011:
- Justin Bieber – Baby: 589,139
- Charlie Bit My Finger : 1,806,195
- Evolution of Dance: 1,070,846
- Rebecca Black – Friday: 201,841
The reason that Friday has such a low rating is because it is not particularly appreciated, i.e. it is very disliked.
