Anticipating movie success through crowdsourced social media videos.

Business houses and marketers have been relying on social media to affect consumer opinions and purchasing behavior. In this paper a framework has been proposed to identify and quantify the emotive value of any movie trailer. The proposed framework made use of Dlib-ml (a machine learning toolkit) and a Genetic Algorithm inspired Support Vector Machine algorithm (GA i SVM) for parameter tuning and classification and emotive analysis of movie trailers. A case study comprising of 141 movies trailers released from Jan 1, 2017 till April 31, 2018 was done to investigate the relationship between emotive score of a movie trailer and financial returns associated with it. Results revealed a direct correlation between emotive score of a movie trailer and financial returns. Further, it was concluded that an emotionally intense movie trailer could result high financial returns in comparison to non-much emotionally intense trailers. • Release of movie trailer has a positive effect on the stock value of the movie. • Higher the emotional appeal of trailer, higher is the impact on stock value. • SVM performs better if its parameter tuning is done. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]