Apparatus and methods for content management and account linking across multiple content delivery networks

Computerized network apparatus configured to enable provision of access to digitally rendered content via a first network to a computerized client device associated with a second network, the computerized network apparatus comprising:

• server apparatus comprising:
• digital processor apparatus;
• network interface apparatus in data communication with the processor apparatus;
• and
• storage apparatus in data communication with the digital processor apparatus, the storage apparatus comprising at least one computer program configured to, when executed on the digital processor apparatus:
• receive, from a computerized client device, data representative of a first request for digitally rendered content;
• based at least on the received data representative of the first request, transmit data representative of a second request to a computerized entity of the second network for authorization of the computerized client device to access, via the first network, the digitally rendered content;
• receive data from the computerized entity of the second network, the data received from the computerized entity (i) indicating that the computerized client device is authorized to access, via the first network, the digitally rendered content, and (ii) comprising a unique identifier generated for the computerized client device by the computerized entity of the second network;
• and
• store the unique identifier in a computerized storage apparatus of the first network.

Computer readable apparatus comprising a non-transitory storage medium, the non-transitory storage medium comprising at least one computer program having a plurality of instructions, the plurality of instructions configured to, when executed on a digital processing apparatus, cause a computerized apparatus of a first network to:

• receive data representative of a request for digitally rendered content from a computerized client device;
• query a data structure maintained at a computerized storage apparatus of the first network to identify a unique identifier associated with the computerized client device, the unique identifier being previously provided to the computerized apparatus of the first network by a computerized entity of a second network;
• and
• cause delivery of the digitally rendered content to the computerized client device based at least in part on the identification of the unique identifier.