Abstract:
Social interaction-based policies are provided to a digital content owner and are applied to uploaded content matching digital content owned by the digital content owner. Social interaction-based policies enable the content owner to obtain various benefits to the content owned by the content owner within a video hosting site and outside the video hosting site. The benefits include using content owner's successful digital content to drive traffic or subscriptions to content owner's social interaction platforms and increase engagement with viewers of the digital content within and outside the video hosting site. The social interaction-based policies also enable content uploaders of digital content matching content owned by others to participate in sharing revenue generated from their uploaded videos subject to social interaction-based policies applied to the uploaded videos.
Abstract:
A computer-implemented method for enabling users to subscribe to people and other tagged entities is provided herein. Such a method includes maintaining subscription data specifying a plurality of entities subscribed to by a plurality of users, with each of the plurality of entities being a tagged entity associated with a tag. The method further includes identifying a media item associated with one or more tagged entities of the plurality of entities, determining, based on the subscription data, a user of the plurality of users that is subscribed to the tagged entities of the media item, and providing the media item to the user. Other associated systems and methods are also provided.
Abstract:
A method may include receiving, by a processing device of a user device, a media item and storing the media item in a local store for offline playback of the media item on the user device, responsive to a user request to play the media item, identifying one or more offline playback settings associated with the media item, determining, based on the offline playback settings, whether the media item is to be played with an advertisement, and if the media item is to be played with the advertisement, providing playback of the media item from the local store with the advertisement on the user device.
Abstract:
A content server receives live streams from a content distributor to transmit to users of the content server. In one embodiment, the content server promotes the live streams received from the content distributor, by serving portions of the live stream as advertisements (ads) to users of the content server along with videos or digital content requested by the users. The content server buffers the live stream. The content server receives a request for a video from a client device. The content server identifies the video requested by the user and metadata associated with the identified video. The content server, based on the metadata determines whether to serve the client device with a live-stream ad, as a pre-roll ad for example, along with the video requested by the user. The content server then identifies a buffered live-stream ad to transmit to the client device along with the requested video.
Abstract:
Systems and methods for displaying annotated video content by mobile computing devices. An example method may comprise: presenting, on a display of a mobile computing device, a video stream including a plurality of video frames; presenting a video annotation overlaid over a frame of the plurality of video frames; receiving a user interface command via a user input interface of the mobile computing device; and performing an action related to the video annotation, the action defined by the user interface command.
Abstract:
A messaging system for a live event is described. A processing device presents a live event having at least one participant. The processing device presents one or more participant messages within a native messaging interface associated with the event. The processing device also presents one or more viewer messages within the native messaging interface. The viewer messages are integrated with the participant messages and the viewer messages are entered via a non-native messaging interface.
Abstract:
Methods, systems, and media for presenting interstitial animations are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: receiving metadata associated with a video; receiving a request to present the video; causing the video to begin buffering; generating, using a hardware processor, an animation based on the metadata; causing the animation to be presented until a predetermined amount of the video has been buffered; and causing the video to be presented upon buffering the predetermined amount of the video.
Abstract:
A content server receives live streams from a content distributor to transmit to users of the content server. In one embodiment, the content server promotes the live streams received from the content distributor, by serving portions of the live stream as advertisements (ads) to users of the content server along with videos or digital content requested by the users. The content server buffers the live stream. The content server receives a request for a video from a client device. The content server identifies the video requested by the user and metadata associated with the identified video. The content server, based on the metadata determines whether to serve the client device with a live-stream ad, as a pre-roll ad for example, along with the video requested by the user. The content server then identifies a buffered live-stream ad to transmit to the client device along with the requested video.
Abstract:
Systems and methods for recommending media content to a user based on information associated with a referral source that referred the user to a media item provided by a source of the media content are presented. In one or more aspects, a system is provided that includes a presentation component that presents, via user a interface, a first media item associated with a media presentation source referred to a user through a referral source. The system further includes an analytics component that identifies a second media item based on media items associated with the media presentation source that are referred to other users through the referral source, and a recommendation component that recommends the second media item to the user through the user interface.
Abstract:
Described herein is a method for managing media item playback. A method includes receiving a media request to play a media item via a first user interface (UI) on a mobile device. The method further includes causing a media player in a second UI to play the media item. The method also includes displaying a representation of the media item in a first portion of the first UI, the first portion of the first UI being associated with the media player in the second UI. The method includes receiving, via a second portion of the first UI, an activity request to perform an activity that is independent of the viewing of the media item. The method further includes and presenting content associated with the requested activity in the first UI while continuing to display, in the first portion of the first UI, the representation of the media item played in the media player in the second UI.