System and method for providing a searchable platform for online content including metadata

A method to provide a searchable platform for online content, the method being implemented by a computer system including one or more physical processors configured by machine-readable instructions, the method comprising:

• pulling online content comprising multiple videos over a network from multiple online content distribution platforms, wherein the online content distribution platforms host the online content over the network such that content consumers, separate and distinct from creators of the online content, view the online content by accessing the online content distribution platforms via consumer client computing platforms, the online content having existing metadata associated with the online content, wherein the existing metadata includes (i) platform information related to distribution of the online content through the multiple online content distribution platforms, and (ii) file information related to an electronic file that defines the online content;
• processing the existing metadata associated with the online content such that the existing metadata is searchable;
• obtaining supplemental metadata for the online content;
• associating the supplemental metadata with the online content, the supplemental metadata including one or more of the platform information, the file information, content information describing and/or related to content included in the online content, and/or contextual information indirectly associated with the online content;
• receiving a search query over the network from one or more client computing platforms associated with users;
• generating a result for the search query based the existing metadata and/or the supplemental metadata, wherein the result includes the online content associated with the existing metadata and/or the supplemental metadata satisfying the search query;
• effectuating presentation of the result on the one or more client computing platforms associated with the users;
• identifying a particular distribution platform that the online content should be transmitted to;
• obtaining distribution platform-specific processing guidelines corresponding to the particular distribution platform, the distribution platform-specific processing guidelines indicating guidelines the online content should meet and/or steps the online content should go through in order to be distributed via the particular distribution platform;
• determining, according to the distribution platform-specific processing guidelines and based on the existing metadata and/or the supplemental metadata associated with the online content, whether the online content is ready to be distributed to the particular distribution platform;
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• responsive to a determination that the online content is not ready to be distributed to the particular distribution platform, transmitting the online content to an editing platform so that the online content is edited and/or modified to meet the distribution platform-specific processing guidelines.