This study develops a sales prediction model for Douyin live commerce, focusing on five cosmetics influencers. Using sales revenue as the outcome, it examines whether quantitative operational variables and viewer comment features can explain sales performance. The dataset includes cumulative viewers, streaming duration, start time, preview video characteristics, and comment-derived features based on sentiment-related measures and keywords. Multiple regression and random forest regression are used to compare predictive performance, and the results are interpreted through the stimulus-organism-response (S-O-R) framework. The random forest model using only quantitative variables generally achieves the highest R², indicating that operational variables are the main drivers of sales prediction. The effects of individual variables differ across influencers, suggesting that effective sales strategies are influencer-specific. In contrast, linguistic features extracted from comments add limited predictive value, likely because the comments are brief, repetitive, and dominated by emojis or stamps.
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