Wideorbit Inc.

Trevan Grant Zosel

William E Offeman

Brian Edward Thoman

Francisco Lopez Alvarez

Francisco Lopezalvarez

Pamela Morris

Systems, methods, and articles for augmenting slot metadata for broadcast streams and replacement of content in addressable streams based on the metadata are described herein. The systems disclosed herein are able to augment slots associated with content provided by broadcast streams to include metadata. The augmented slots are used to generate a log, that can be used by at least one of an augmentation system, a broadcast play out provider, and an addressable play out provider to generate one or more playlists for providing content via broadcast streams and addressable streams. The metadata can further be used to alter the content provided by addressable play out providers such that media content provided via the addressable stream and broadcast stream is similar but advertisement content provided via the addressable stream and broadcast stream is different.

Augmentation of metadata in broadcast streams

Systems, methods, and articles for assigning content, such as advertisements, to similar content breaks, such as advertisement placement opportunities, across multiple content providers. The systems disclosed herein automatically identify similar advertisement placement opportunities, such as advertisement placement opportunities occurring at the same time, across a plurality of media content providers, and assign an indicated advertisement spot to as many of the identified advertisement placement opportunities as possible. This is achieved by re-assigning advertisement spots which are already assigned to a slot in one of the advertisement placement opportunities to another slot in order to allow the indicated advertisement spot to be assigned to the slot.

Systems and methods for assigning advertisements across media content providers

Systems, methods, and articles for optimizing the placement of content, such as advertisements, within content breaks. The systems disclosed herein automatically identify the optimal allocation of content within breaks included in advertisement placement opportunities. This is achieved by scoring placed advertisements and determining whether a prospective advertisement can be placed within a break. The system may score the placed advertisements based on rules provided by a media content provider and multiple buyers.

Systems and methods for content distribution between content breaks

Systems, methods and articles for providing optimized scheduling of a log of spots to be delivered to consumers. The optimized scheduling allows content providers to autonomously satisfy contracts and increase revenue. An audience delivery optimizer system receives an initial log, generates an optimized log, and returns the optimized log so that content can be delivered to consumers according to the optimized log. The audience delivery optimizer system may use historical ratings data and may implement an algorithm to accurately project future delivery. The audience delivery optimizer system may evaluate and optimize a log that spans a particular period of time, such as a day, a week, a month, etc. The audience delivery optimizer system may evaluate over-performing contracts and under-performing contracts and may then optimize the placement of spots based on such evaluations. The audience delivery optimizer system may track liability or other metrics over determined periods (e.g., quarterly).

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