Methods and systems of facilitating sharing of information among service providers

A method of recommending media content to users viewing over-the-top content, the method comprising:

• receiving, at a server, a request from a user, over a communications network, to access media assets from a first content provider, wherein the first content provider is associated with a cloud-based aggregator of a plurality of content providers;
• determining, at the server, a media preference for the user based on the request;
• retrieving, at the server, a list of media assets available from each of the plurality of content providers;
• identifying, at the server, a media asset available from a second content provider based on the media preference, wherein the second content provider is associated with the cloud-based aggregator;
• transmitting, over the communications network, a recommendation, on a display screen, for the media asset without indicating the second content provider to the user;
• and
• receiving, at the server, a first recommendation credit from the cloud-based aggregator in response to transmitting the recommendation.