Digital mall and social media platform

A method for providing a digital platform hosted on a computer, the digital platform providing commercial products and social media interaction accessible by a user using a device, comprising:

• opening a first advertisement, in response to receiving a selection by a user, using an application, of the first advertisement depicted on a display of a device, the first advertisement being in a first section of a viewable area of the display of the device, the viewable area having a plurality of advertisements each having a section of the viewable area in a contiguous relationship to each other in the viewable area on the display of the device, the opening of the first advertisement being opened as a first portal within a digital platform for the plurality of advertisements, and each of the advertisements accessing content data for each of the advertisements within the digital platform, the content data being hosted on a content server of the digital platform, and the application on the device communicating with the digital platform;
• displaying a first plurality of interactive elements of the first advertisement, in response to the user selecting the first advertisement, the interactive elements being associated with the first advertisement, and the interactive elements being in the first portal within the digital platform as part of first content data for the first advertisement, and;
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• displaying and providing featured options, as part of the first content data for the first advertisement for interaction related to the first advertisement, in response to the user selecting one or more of the first plurality of interactive elements, respectively.

A system for providing a digital platform hosted on a computer, the digital platform providing commercial products and social media interaction accessible by a user using a device, the system comprising:

• a computer system comprising:
• a computer processor, a computer-readable storage medium, and program instructions stored on the computer-readable storage medium being executable by the processor, to cause the computer system to perform a method, to:
• receive, using a computer system, a plurality of advertisements for posting on a digital platform;
• receive content data, using the computer system, for each of the plurality of advertisements;
• post, using the computer system, the plurality of advertisements on the digital platform, the digital platform being viewable on a display of a device, each of the advertisements having a section of the viewable area in a contiguous relationship to each other in the viewable area on the display of the device, the digital platform being hosted on the device using an application on the device and being in communication, using a communications network, with a content server which hosts the content data for each of the plurality of advertisements, the digital platform being accessible by a plurality of users via the application on computer devices, respectively, for each of the plurality of users;
• configure and enable each advertisement as a portal within the digital platform for each of the respective advertisements, the advertisements being selectable and linking to the content data for a respective advertisement as a portal, respectively, when the advertisement is selected by one of the plurality of users on their device, the content data being hosted on the computer system of the digital platform;
• access a first portal, in response to receiving a selection of a first advertisement by a user, the first portal being respective to the first advertisement selected by the user, the first portal being associated with first content data, for the first advertisement, stored on the computer system of the digital platform;
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• display the first content data for the first advertisement selected within the first portal, respective to the advertisement, on the digital platform.