System and method for multi-user digital interactive experience

A method of adding a user to a digital interactive synchronized experience comprising:

• providing, at a server, an interaction system comprising:
• a publishing group comprising a first plurality of users participating in the digital interactive synchronized experience, each:
• sending a media stream to a publisher, the media stream comprising at least one selected from the group of an audio stream and a video stream;
• and
• receiving a composite media stream from a subscriber, the subscriber in communication with the publisher, the composite media stream comprising at least two of the media streams from the first plurality of users, wherein the media stream is sent simultaneously as the composite media stream is received;
• and
• receiving at the interaction system, from a computing device in network communication with the server, a connection request from a nominee user;
• establishing a simultaneous video connection with the nominee user and the interaction system;
• and
• adding the nominee user to the publishing group.