Video Sharing Network’s Popularity Detection (Aparat)

Aparat has become one of the largest Iranian websites on the Internet which also has induced Social Network features. This article provides the factors affecting the popularity of social networks and uses this information based on Aparat’s attributes. A content analysis of 618 videos from 13 Aparat channels was conducted. The main purpose is to find solutions or formulate that change each influence parameter to quantity knowledge and then make the connection between these parameters to get a final score for each channel. This number is influenced by all the important factors affecting the popularity of the channel and that is the reason for its impotence. Moreover, it is used to rank channels based on popularity.