Display of videos based on referrers
View Patent ↗A system and method for determining popularity of a video based in part on requests for the video received from a referrer, grouping videos whose popularity based on requests from referrers exceeds a threshold and displaying those videos in a channel or providing them in a web feed.
1. A method comprising:
receiving on a client device a request to view a first page of a video hosting site;
displaying on the client device the first page received from the video hosting site, the first page including representations of a plurality of third party websites that include embedded videos hosted by the video hosting site; and
responsive to receiving on the client device a request to view a second page of the video hosting website associated with a third party website from the plurality, displaying on the client device the second page received from the video hosting site, the second page including representations of a plurality of videos hosted by the video hosting site and embedded on the third party website, for each of the plurality of videos a representation of the video is included on the second page in response to a percentage exceeding a threshold, the percentage indicating from a total number of requests to view the video a number of requests initiated through the third party website.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of videos is embedded on the third party website via a hyperlink to the video hosting site.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second page indicates that the plurality of videos are embedded on the third party website.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein a video from the plurality of videos is embedded in a plurality of web pages of the third party website.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein for each of the plurality of third party websites the first page includes an image of a video embedded on the third party website.
6. The method of claim 5 , wherein each video that includes an image on the first page is related to a genre associated with the first page.
7. A computer system comprising:
one or more computer processors; and
a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions that configure the one or more processors to:
receive a request to view a first page of a video hosting site;
display the first page received from the video hosting site, the first page including representations of a plurality of third party websites that include embedded videos hosted by the video hosting site; and
display a second page associated with a third party website from the plurality and received from the video hosting site in response to receiving a request to view the second page, the second page including representations of a plurality of videos hosted by the video hosting site and embedded on the third party website, for each of the plurality of videos a representation of the video is included on the second page in response to a percentage exceeding a threshold, the percentage indicating from a total number of requests to view the video a number of requests initiated through the third party website.
8. The computer system of claim 7 , wherein each of the plurality of videos is embedded on the third party website via a hyperlink to the video hosting site.
9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions that configure one or more processors to perform steps comprising:
receiving on a client device a request to view a first page of a video hosting site;
displaying on the client device the first page received from the video hosting site, the first page including representations of a plurality of third party websites that include embedded videos hosted by the video hosting site; and
responsive to receiving on the client device a request to view a second page of the video hosting website associated with a third party website from the plurality, displaying on the client device the second page received from the video hosting site, the second page including representations of a plurality of videos hosted by the video hosting site and embedded on the third party website, for each of the plurality of videos a representation of the video is included on the second page in response to a percentage exceeding a threshold, the percentage indicating from a total number of requests to view the video a number of requests initiated through the third party website.
10. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 , wherein each of the plurality of videos is embedded on the third party website via a hyperlink to the video hosting site.
11. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 , wherein the second page indicates that the plurality of videos are embedded on the third party website.
12. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 , wherein a video from the plurality of videos is embedded in a plurality of web pages of the third party website.
13. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 , wherein for each of the plurality of third party websites the first page includes an image of a video embedded on the third party website.
14. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein each video that includes an image on the first page is related to a genre associated with the first page.