DIRECT: Decomposing Audience Preference and Creative Effect in Visual Content Analytics
DIRECT:分解视觉内容分析中的受众偏好与创作效应
Which visual choices make a post perform better? A growing literature answers this question with pooled coefficients estimated across many creators, which platforms translate into creative recommendations. We show that these coefficients blend two distinct patterns that can point in opposite directions for the same attribute. The first, audience preference, arises because creators who favor a style attract differently composed audiences, so their posts perform differently…