Apparatus and methods for providing enhanced or interactive features

A computerized method of enabling a plurality of users to actively participate with digitally rendered content delivered over a content delivery network, the computerized method comprising:

• transmitting notification data to a plurality of computerized client devices respectively associated with the plurality of users, the notification data configured to cause display of a notification relating to an event, the event being enabled for participation and relating to particular digitally rendered content;
• causing delivery of secondary event information in conjunction with the notification, the secondary event information comprising a recitation of one or more materials needed for participation in the event;
• causing delivery of the particular digitally rendered content to the plurality of computerized client devices;
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• enabling the plurality of users to interactively participate in the event, the interactively participating comprising at least one of interaction of individual ones of the plurality of users independent of other ones of the plurality of users, or interaction of individual ones of the plurality of users simultaneously with one another.

A method for interaction of a plurality of subscribers to a content delivery network with a digitally rendered content element delivered over the content delivery network, the method comprising:

• determining a threshold number of subscribers required for participation in an event, the event being associated with the digitally rendered content element;
• notifying the plurality of subscribers of the event associated with the digitally rendered content element;
• enabling interested ones of the plurality of subscribers to designate an interest in participation in the event via the content delivery network;
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• in response to a number of the interested subscribers meeting the threshold number of subscribers, causing the event to occur using the content delivery network for only the interested ones of the plurality of subscribers.

A method of enabling user interaction with content over a managed content delivery network, the method comprising:

• delivering a first plurality of content channels to a first subscriber;
• collecting a plurality of data relating to one or more interactions of the first subscriber with individual ones of the first plurality of content channels;
• identifying, based at least in part on the plurality of data, one or more of the individual ones of the first plurality of content channels for removal from the delivery;
• identifying, based at least in part on the plurality of data, one or more of a second plurality of content channels for addition to the delivery;
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• identifying a second subscriber, the second subscriber receiving the one or more of the second plurality of content channels and not receiving the one or more of the individual ones of the first plurality of content channels;
• enabling the first subscriber, in coordination with the second subscriber, to select the addition to the delivery of the one or more of a second plurality of content channels and the removal from the delivery of the one or more of the individual ones of the first plurality of content channels.