Discovery and detection of events in interactive content

A system for augmenting in-stream events, the system comprising:

• a communication interface that receives tracked information regarding a plurality of streams;
• and
• memory that stores event criteria for one or more predefined events of interest;
• and a processor that executes instructions stored in memory, wherein the processor executes the instructions to:
• identify that statistics corresponding to data from one or more external sources are associated with one or more of the streams, wherein at least one set of the statistics is identified as associated with an identified time period during which a cluster of factors are concentrated within at least one of the streams;
• define an event at the identified time period during which the cluster of factors are concentrated within the at least one stream based on the at least one set of statistics for the identified time period meeting the stored event criteria;
• and
• modify one or more views of the defined event within the at least one stream, wherein modifying the views includes augmenting the identified stream in accordance with the data from the external sources associated with the at least one set of statistics.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, having embodied thereon a program executable by a processor to perform a method for augmenting in-stream events, the method comprising:

• tracking information regarding a plurality of streams;
• storing event criteria for one or more predefined events of interest;
• identifying that statistics corresponding to data from one or more external sources are associated with one or more of the streams, wherein at least one set of the statistics is identified as associated with an identified time period within at least one of the streams during which a cluster of factors are concentrated;
• defining an event at the identified time period during which the cluster of factors are concentrated within the at least one stream based on the at least one set of statistics for the identified time period meeting the stored event criteria;
• and
• modifying one or more views of the defined event within the at least one stream, wherein modifying the views includes augmenting the at least one stream in accordance with the data from the external sources associated with the at least one set of statistics.