A private first challenge can be conducted within a consumer engagement mobile application. A component of the challenge can be a good or a service of the sponsor. Each participant in the challenge must complete an act involving the good or the service component. Each participant must create a visual record of the act. The participants must submit the visual record of the act at a first specified time period. An invitation can be conveyed to participate in the challenge to each participant valid for the duration of the time period. Advantageously, all within the mobile application, private challenges/contests are provided, which allow users and sponsors to generate and set the terms of their own challenge/contest, as well as allow users and sponsors to engage in multiple concurrent challenges/contests.

Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate a generation of a content rating based upon user input and an insertion of the content rating into a video stream. A user interface may be utilized at a multimedia device to gather user input including a rating assigned to a piece of content by the user. The user input including the content rating may be output from the multimedia device to an upstream system over a return path. The upstream system may consolidate the received content rating with other ratings associated with the piece of content and may generate an aggregate rating for the piece of content. The aggregate rating may be inserted, as metadata, into a transport stream carrying the piece of content, and the piece of content, along with the metadata representing the aggregate rating, may be output to one or more multimedia devices.

A method of livestreaming an audiovisual audition allows a candidate to livestream an audiovisual audition to a talent agency, talent competition, or similar entity. A plurality of computerized kiosks is utilized to capture and livestream the audiovisual audition. The candidate is able to enter personal information to generate a candidate profile on at least one remote server. Audiovisual audition data for the candidate profile is retrieved and livestreamed to an audience a plurality of personal computing (PC) devices through a destination web portal. A voting process is executed to allow the audience to vote for the candidate profile with the plurality of PC devices. An aggregated vote count is calculated by subtracting a plurality of negative votes from a plurality of positive votes to rank the candidate profile amongst other candidate profiles from a particular region or state.

An apparatus and a method by which a content such as an advertisement corresponding to a user at the reception apparatus side can be selectively outputted to the reception apparatus are provided. A transmission apparatus transmits signaling data (MPD) having a user information setting region, a control information file capable of being accessed or generated applying user information-set data generated by a process for the MPD, and a user information-corresponding advertisement capable of being acquired and reproduced on the basis of description data of the control information file. The reception apparatus sets user information to the user information setting region of the MPD, applies the generated user information-set data to acquire a control information file of a user information-corresponding advertisement, applies the description data of the acquired control information file to acquire the user information-corresponding advertisement, and outputs the user information-corresponding advertisement.

An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit and a changing unit. The acquisition unit acquires character information input by a viewer to content including an image or sound. The changing unit changes a representation form of a frequent word which is character information with a high appearance frequency among character information input by multiple viewers to the content.

A server may generate interactive commerce programming with content including descriptive information about a product or a service. The interactive commerce programming may be provided to a producer client to present the content at a display of the producer client and to participant devices. The server may receive from a participant device a participant response. Additional descriptive information about the product and the service may also be provided to complete a commercial transaction.

A system for assisting a content consumer to select content services, the system including a processor that is configured to execute a matching algorithm. The matching algorithm comprises interviewing the content consumer for questions in a plurality of categories, determining a point system for answers obtained by the interviewing step, wherein the answers indicate entertainment interests of the content consumer; calculating a service score for each content service based on the point system, wherein the service score indicates an agreement between a content service and the entertainment interests of the content consumer; and selecting a pre-determined number of content services based on the service score.

In one aspect, an example method involves: accessing, by a computing device, data associated with an election; using, by a computing device, the accessed data to determine a status associated with a voting option of the election; using, by the computing device, the determined status as a basis to select a content storage-location from among multiple content storage-locations, wherein each of the multiple content storage-locations corresponds with a respective content placeholder of a content template; and storing, by the computing device, in the selected content storage-location, (i) a content item associated with the voting option or (ii) a reference to the content item.

A system for providing video motion augmentation is disclosed. In particular, the system provides mechanisms for analyzing video content, metadata, or a combination thereof, to dynamically enhance and adapt regions of small movements or micro-movements in the video content based on a variety of inputs. The regions of small movements or micro-movements may be enhanced based on device characteristics associated with a device consuming the video content, based on a theme associated with the content, based on sensor data, based on user feedback, and based on a variety of other inputs. For example, motion content in the video content may be enhanced and emphasized based on the display resolution or other device characteristics of a device requesting the video content. Once the enhanced video content is generated based on the inputs, the enhanced content may be provided to the device requesting the content.

There is presented a system for providing a digital multimedia presentation. The system includes a processor and a memory. The system further includes a presentation content database stored in the memory, the presentation content database configured to store a plurality of episodes of a media series each of the plurality of episodes including and a credit portion. The system also includes a media player for execution by the processor and configured to play a selected episode of the plurality of episodes of the media series, and a review and redirection application for execution by the processor and configured to determine a next episode of the selected episode in the media series, where the processor executes the review and redirection pane during or after the credit portion of the selected episode to present a consumer with the next episode of the selected episode in the media series.