Workshop on VOD prominence at Imec-SMIT in Brussels

Responding to an invitation from Karin Van Es of Utrecht University, visiting fellow at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, and Catalina Iordache, Senior Researcher at Imec-SMIT, Arvester took part in a day-long workshop that made use of our Vignette dashboard to aid ongoing research projects and spark new conversations around prominence on VOD services.

Participants were given special access to our dashboard with data on four profiles to manipulate as they pleased. This gave rise to interesting discussions that ranged from the prominence of specific countries of production to the different methods of attributing prominence scores, the influence of extraneous factors on the homepage and the effects of personalisation on its composition.

Hopefully, the workshop has encouraged attendees to use Arvester data in their research projects.

I wish to thank Karin Van Es, Catalina Iordache and Tim Raats for organising the event and all the participants for attending and providing valuable feedback.