1. A computer-implemented method of ranking a plurality of video articles, comprising: for each of the plurality of video articles, performing the following steps at a server: determining video-oriented characteristic data of a video article, the video-oriented characteristic data describing one or more characteristics of at least one broadcast of the video article, wherein each video article has metadata describing the video article; and determining a rank score based at least in part on the video article-oriented characteristic data and based at least in part on the metadata of the video article; determining an order for transmitting the plurality of video articles to a client, the order of transmission based on the rank score for each of the plurality of video articles.
1. A computer-implemented method of ranking a plurality of video articles, comprising: for each of the plurality of video articles, performing the following steps at a server: determining video-oriented characteristic data of a video article, the video-oriented characteristic data describing one or more characteristics of at least one broadcast of the video article, wherein each video article has metadata describing the video article; and determining a rank score based at least in part on the video article-oriented characteristic data and based at least in part on the metadata of the video article; determining an order for transmitting the plurality of video articles to a client, the order of transmission based on the rank score for each of the plurality of video articles. 7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the metadata of the video article is a subtitle of the video article.