SPONSORED CONTENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PUBLICATION AND INTERACTIVE DISCUSSION ENGINE

摘要

A system useful for serving web pages is programmed to receive prospective sponsored content from a third party sponsor, identify at least one published topic page and/or curator of published topic pages on the system that is a good candidate to publish the prospective sponsored content on at least one of their topic pages, formulate and make one or more offers of compensation to the identified curators in exchange for publishing and/or curating the prospective sponsored content, receive an indication of acceptance of such offer from at least one curator, identify prospective voters to approve or disapprove the draft sponsored content, publish the sponsored content in a draft version of a topic page and make the draft version available to the prospective voters, receive votes from the prospective voters, and publish the sponsored content on one or more published topic pages of the at least one curator if the content has received at least a predetermined number or percentage of votes.

主权项

1. A system, useful in serving web pages, that provides incentive for a curator of a topic page to curate his or her topic pages in a manner that drives revenue to the system from third party sponsors by compensating the curator for publishing or curating sponsored content on their published topic pages, the system comprising:
(a) a data store containing data for populating a front end interface and a plurality of specific artist pages; (b) a computer system comprising at least one server operatively coupled to the data store, the computer system programmed to:
i) receive prospective sponsored content from a third party sponsor;ii) identify at least one curator of published topic pages on the system that is a good candidate to publish the prospective sponsored content on at least one of their topic pages;iii) formulate and make one or more offers of compensation to the identified curator in exchange for curating the prospective sponsored content;iv) receive an indication of acceptance of such offer from at least one curator;v) identify prospective voters to approve or disapprove the draft sponsored content;vi) publish the sponsored content in a draft version of a topic page and make the draft version available to the prospective voters;vii) receive votes from the prospective voters; and,viii) publish the sponsored content on one or more published topic pages of the at least one curator if the content has received at least a predetermined number or percentage of votes.