Methods and systems for enabling the purchase of deliverable goods & services

A method, comprising:

• receiving an interactive shopping directory, the interactive shopping directory comprising a directory listing of at least one vendor with an interactive menu for accessing, selecting, and placing an order, the directory listing further associated with at least one of an identification category for a good provided by the vendor, an identification category for a service offered by the vendor, a vendor communications address, and a physical address of the vendor;
• storing the interactive shopping directory to a media device;
• and
• presenting the interactive shopping directory to the media device.

A method for awarding an advertisement time slot, comprising:

• accessing consumer data about a consumer's order from an interactive shopping directory, the consumer data comprising at least one consumer criterion describing one or more consumers as desirable for receiving advertisement content;
• accessing an advertising auction engine to award the advertisement time slot, the advertising auction engine comprising at least one of advertising data, auction data for selecting and bidding on the advertisement time slot, and business data for awarding the advertisement time slot, the advertising auction engine for:
• i) matching the consumer data with the auction data and the advertising data to identify one or more advertisements as desirable for distribution to the one or more media devices associated with desirable consumers during the advertisement time slot,
• ii) establishing a bid price for each of the identified one or more advertisements, the bid price adjusted by the advertising auction engine based upon the matched data for each advertisement and based upon the business data, and
• iii) awarding the advertisement time slot to one of the identified one or more advertisements to maximize a contract price for the advertisement time slot.