Method and system for providing interactive content delivery and audience engagement
A method includes generating one or more control signals configured to cause a user device displaying a video program to display an interactive bet tracking content overlay on a graphical user interface of a user device, the interactive bet tracking content overlay including one or more values associated with one or more active bets, the one or more interactive bet tracking content overlays further including an indication regarding a current state of the one or more active bets.
1. A system for interactive video content comprising:
one or more interactive engagement platform servers communicatively couplable to a plurality of user devices, wherein the plurality of user devices are configured to display one or more video programs via one or more video program streams received from one or more video provider servers, wherein the one or more interactive engagement platform servers are configured to:
generate one or more control signals configured to cause the plurality of user devices to display an interactive bet tracking content overlay in response to a user selection of an additional interactive content overlay;
retrieve a data query containing one or more parameters of one or more active bets, the data query further containing device ID information of the plurality of user devices;
transmit the retrieved data query to one or more third party betting service providers;
retrieve a data packet from at least one of the one or more third party betting service providers;
generate one or more control signals configured to cause the plurality of user devices to display the interactive bet tracking content overlay over the displayed one or more video programs, wherein the interactive bet tracking content overlay is configured to display information associated with the retrieved data packet, wherein the interactive bet content tracking overlay includes a bet value associated with the one or more active bets and a current state of the one or more active bets;
identify one or more user devices of the plurality of user devices subscribed to a specific betting service provider of the one or more third party betting service providers;
transmit one or more data payloads to the one or more identified user devices subscribed to the specific betting service provider;
retrieve an additional data packet including one or more results of the one or more active bets from at least one of the one or more third party betting service providers; and
upon the one or more active bets concluding, generate one or more control signals configured to cause the one or more identified user devices to display a bet result content overlay configured to display information associated with the retrieved additional data packet, the information associated with the retrieved additional data packet including the one or more results of the one or more active bets, wherein the bet result content overlay is different than the interactive bet tracking content overlay.
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more interactive engagement platform servers further are configured to:
receive an additional data query in near real-time from the one or more identified user devices when new data related to the one or more parameters of the one or more active bets are available;
identify one or more user devices of the plurality of user devices subscribed to an event ID associated with at least one video program stream of the one or more video program streams; and
generate in near real-time one or more control signals configured to cause the plurality of user devices to update the current state of the one or more active bets displayed on the interactive bet tracking content overlay based on the new data related to the one or more parameters of the one or more active bets.
3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the interactive bet tracking content overlay is semi-persistent.
4. A system for interactive video content comprising:
a user device communicatively coupled to one or more video provider servers and at least one of one or more third party betting service providers or one or more third party content providers, wherein the user device is subscribed to a specific betting service provider of the one or more third party betting service providers, wherein the user device is configured to:
display one or more interactive bet tracking content overlays in response to a user selection, wherein the one or more interactive bet tracking content overlays are displayed over a video program being displayed on the user device, the one or more interactive bet tracking content overlays including one or more values associated with one or more active bets, the one or more interactive bet tracking content overlays further including an indication regarding a current state of the one or more active bets;
receive one or more data payloads;
generate one or more control signals configured to cause an additional data packet to be retrieved, wherein the additional data packet includes one or more results of the one or more active bets from at least one of the one or more third party betting service providers; and
display a bet result content overlay upon the one or more active bets concluding, wherein the bet result content overlay includes one or more results of the one or more active bets, wherein the bet result content overlay is different than the one or more interactive bet tracking content overlays.
5. The system of claim 4 , wherein the current state of the one or more active bets are updated in near-real time in conjunction with the video program being displayed.
6. The system of claim 4 , wherein the one or more interactive bet tracking content overlays are semi-persistent.
7. The system of claim 4 , wherein user device is further configured to:
display a quick return selectable button configured to direct a user to a closed interactive content overlay.
8. The system of claim 4 , wherein the user device is configured to associate a first data payload with a first selectable button, and a second data payload with a second selectable button.
9. The system of claim 8 ,
wherein the user device is configured to display supplemental content of the first data payload in a first interactive content overlay window in response to a user selection of the first selectable button,
wherein the user device is configured to display supplemental content of the second data payload in a second interactive content overlay window in response to a user selection of the second selectable button.
10. The system of claim 9 , wherein at least one of the first interactive content overlay window or the second interactive content overlay window is at least partially transparent.
11. The system of claim 4 , wherein the user device is further configured to:
receive one or more signals indicating a specified event has occurred;
identify the user device as being subscribed to a livestream associated with the specified event; and
display a notification in the one or more interactive bet tracking content overlays on the user device.
12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the livestream comprises at least one of:
a fantasy league livestream;
a sporting league livestream; or
a gambling service livestream.
13. A method comprising:
generating one or more control signals configured to cause a plurality of user devices displaying one or more video programs to display an interactive bet tracking content overlay on a graphical user interface of the plurality of user devices, wherein the interactive bet tracking content overlay is displayed over the displayed one or more video programs, the interactive bet tracking content overlay including one or more bet values associated with one or more active bets, the one or more interactive bet tracking content overlays further including an indication regarding a current state of the one or more active bets;
identifying one or more user devices of the plurality of user devices subscribed to a specific betting service provider of one or more third party betting service providers;
transmitting one or more data payloads to the one or more identified user devices subscribed to the specific betting service provider;
retrieving an additional data packet including one or more results of the one or more active bets from at least one of the one or more third party betting service providers; and
upon the one or more active bets concluding, generating one or more control signals configured to cause the one or more identified user devices to display a bet result content overlay configured to display information associated with the retrieved additional data packet, the information associated with the retrieved additional data packet including the one or more results of the one or more active bets, wherein the bet result content overlay is different than the interactive bet tracking content overlay.
14. The method of claim 13 , further comprising:
generate in near real-time one or more control signals configured to cause the plurality of user devices to update the current state of the one or more active bets displayed on the interactive bet tracking content overlay based on new data related to one or more parameters of the one or more active bets.