Leaf Group Ltd.

Ispot.tv, Inc.

Ewan Godley

Sean Muller

Mark Conrad Jones

Dennis A Ameen

Laurent Gherardi

Jon R Jurgens, Jr

Brian Havener

Glenn Moran

Richard Rosenblatt

Larry Fitzgibbon

Dean Busenbark

Joey C Perez

Greg Griffin

Adam Youngers

Scott Happell

The invention is directed to a User Publishing System (UPS) that enables both content publishing for users that share what they know in articles and enabling these users to get paid for providing the content through use of a User Compensation System (UCS). The invention enables users to create and edit content in multiple formats, from multiple sources, and in multiple languages. The system can be integrated for use with a plurality of different websites and adopt both the look and feel and the content format of each website, and/or other communication medium. Compensation may be provided to the user providing the content based on a variety of metrics.

User generated content publishing system

Television transmissions are received at multiple locations across a large area. Advertisements are identified, harvested and tagged from within in the television transmissions. The advertisements are made into smaller representations ('fingerprinted') and are assigned identifiers and media plans are determined for the advertisements. Smart TVs use the advertisement representations to identify advertisements in television content received by the smart TVs. The smart TVs report the advertisement identifiers and identifiers of shows in the television content received by the smart TVs. The television content and advertisements as rendered by the smart TVs are categorized as live, timeshifted, on-demand, over-the-top, and the like. The advertisements are categorized as occurring in national or regional ad slots. The data from the smart TVs is used to determine ad impressions, gross rating points, and target rating points.

Television audience measurement method and apparatus

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Ewan Godley