INTRODUCTION Videos promoting electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) can be easily accessed on YouTube. Marketing claims present in YouTube videos may help shape the public's opinion of e-cigarettes. Thus, it is important to understand the most frequent marketing claims and video sources. METHODS The objectives of this study were to 1) identify marketing claims in YouTube videos that are common...

OBJECTIVE Nonsuicidal self-injury, the deliberate destruction of one's body tissue (eg, self-cutting, burning) without suicidal intent, has consistent rates ranging from 14% to 24% among youth and young adults. With more youth using video-sharing Web sites (eg, YouTube), this study examined the accessibility and scope of nonsuicidal self-injury videos online. METHODS Using YouTube's search en...

We have performed city-verification of videos based on the videos' audio and metadata, using videos from the MediaEval Placing Task's video set, which contain consumerproduced videos “from-the-wild.” Eighteen cities were used as targets, for which acoustic and language models were trained, and against which test videos were scored. We have obtained the first known results for the city verificat...

Now a days, the Data Engineering becoming emerging trend to discover knowledge from web audiovisual data such asYouTube videos, Yahoo Screen, Face Book videos etc. Different categories of web video are being shared on such social websites and are being used by the billions of users all over the world. The uploaded web videos will have different kind of metadata as attribute information of the v...

The popularity of video-on-demand (VoD) streaming has grown dramatically over the World Wide Web. Most users in VoD P2P networks have to wait a long time in order to access their requesting videos. Therefore, reducing waiting time to access videos is the main challenge for VoD P2P networks. In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm for caching video based on peers' priority and video's popula...

CONTEXT Cancer caregivers have information and support needs, especially about cancer pain management. With high Internet use reported among caregivers, YouTube may be an accessible option when looking for information on cancer pain management. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to explore the availability and characteristics of instructional cancer pain management videos on YouTube and...

BACKGROUND YouTube is one of the largest social networking websites, allowing users to upload and view video content that provides entertainment and conveys many messages, including those related to health conditions, such as concussion. However, little is known about the content of videos relating to concussion. OBJECTIVE To identify and classify the content of concussion-related videos avai...