The Effect of Online Reviews on Movie Box Office Sales

The Main Determinants of Bollywood Movie Box Office Sales

Effect of Word of Mouth on Sales: Online Book Reviews”

The creation of online consumer communities to provide product reviews and advice has been touted as an important, albeit somewhat expensive component of Internet retail strategies. In this paper, we characterize reviewer behavior at two popular Internet sites and examine the effect of consumer reviews on firms' sales. We use publicly available data from the two leading online booksellers, Amaz...

Box Office Movie Rating and Take Prediction

Predicting movies’ box office performance is a bit like gambling and predicting the stock market: there’s a lot of luck involved but analyzing the system’s input frequently leads a better result. The inputs to box office prediction are infinite for the most part but there’s little to argue that the actors involved in a new work and those actors’ past performances play a huge role in a movie’s s...

Pre-Release Movie Piracy and Box Office Sales: Estimates and Policy Implications

The impact of piracy on digital media sales is an important academic, managerial, and policy question. Answers to this question are particularly salient for theatrical piracy where rights-holders and policy-makers are struggling to determine both the size of the problem and the appropriate legislative and managerial responses, and where there are few if any rigorous academic studies to guide th...

Effects of Microblogging and Third-Party Word of Mouth on Product Sales: Empirical Study Based on Movie Box Office Revenue

This paper investigates the effects of word of mouth (WOM) through microblogging and third-party platforms on the box office revenue of a movie and the moderating role of movie popularity. The study uses a two-year panel data set of 147 movies, tweets from 120 thousand randomly selected users of Sina Weibo, and reviews from Douban.com discussing these movies in their release period and finds th...