Image browsing system and method for a digital content platform

An image-browsing system for selecting and displaying a plurality of contextually relevant images proximate to a published image on a digital content platform, comprising:

• a server, including a memory unit for storing a database having a plurality of images, each image having at least one contextual tag;
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• a processor configured to provide:
• an image frame proximate to the published image on the digital content platform, wherein the image frame displays a first image provided from the plurality of images in the database, and
• a user-actionable interface within the published image and proximate to an object within the published image, wherein activation of the user-actionable interface replaces the first image within the frame with a second image, and wherein the second image is selected based on the object within the published image.

A computer-implemented method for matching objects within a published image, on a web page of a publisher's website, with contextually relevant content, the method comprising:

• (a) creating an image catalog populated with a plurality of product images from a plurality of merchants;
• (b) establishing a link between the publisher's website and an image analysis engine to receive the image published on the publisher's website;
• (c) the image analysis engine providing a computerized interface for a crowdsource network to (1) identify objects within the published image and (2match objects within the published image with matching product images from the image catalog;
• (d) providing a first user-actionable interface, proximate to a first object within the published image on the web page of the publisher's website, for a user to activate the published image;
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• (e) upon activation by the user, providing an image frame on the web page, wherein the image frame displays a matching product image from step (b)(2), and wherein the image frame includes a second user-actionable interface, wherein activation of the second user-actionable interface replaces the matching product image of step (b)(2within the image frame with a second image.