SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CROWD SOURCED METRICS FOR NETWORK CONTENT BROADCASTERS

摘要

A system and method for providing crowd sourced metrics for broadcast content providers. For determinations of such metrics, user consumption of broadcast content in multiple streams by multiple content providers may be monitored and user consumption information regarding the broadcast content may be obtained. One or more content consumption metrics may be determined to quantify individual user consumption of the broadcast content. Audience metrics may be determined, for a content provider, to inform about users that are available to consume broadcast content provided by the content provider. Events within the broadcast content may be determined and event information regarding individual user consumption of the broadcast content at the event may be obtained. Event metrics may be determined based on the obtained event information to inform about consumption of the broadcast content at the event by users.

主权项

1. A system configured to provide audience metrics for content providers, the system comprising:
one or more processors configured to execute computer program modules, the computer program modules comprising:
a content consumption module configured to obtain user consumption information that indicates individual user consumption of broadcast content by monitoring user activities corresponding to the broadcast content streamed over the Internet in multiple streams from multiple content providers;a user module configured to manage user accounts associated with individual users, the user accounts including individual user information, the individual user information comprising content consumption metrics quantifying individual user consumption of the broadcast content monitored by the content consumption module, wherein the user accounts include a first user account associated with a first user, the first user account including user information comprising content consumption metrics quantifying consumption of the broadcast content by the first user;an available user determination module configured to determine users that are available to consume broadcast content streamed over the Internet by the content providers; andan audience metrics module configured to determine audience metrics for the content providers such that the audience metrics determined for a first content provider includes a first audience metric indicating a prediction of an amount of users that will consume a first set of broadcast content should the first content provider stream the first set of content over the Internet, the audience metrics being determined based on the content consumption metrics for the available users.