Digital media playback instruction distribution device, method, and program that calculate a digital media playback delay and distribute a delay instruction with website content

A digital media playback instruction distribution method comprising:

• accessing a memory storing content data, the content data including website content for distribution to a remote terminal, the website content including a display area for displaying digital media;
• receiving, via a network interface, a request for the stored web content from the remote terminal;
• calculating a time period over which a user of the remote terminal is estimated to need to browse the website content when it is rendered on the remote terminal, and
• transmitting, via the network interface, the website content and a delay instruction to the remote terminal, the delay instruction instructing the remote terminal to delay playback of digital media displayed in the display area until after the calculated time period has elapsed since display of the website content on the remote terminal.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium with an executable digital media playback instruction program, the program comprising instructions that cause the computer to perform the following functions:

• accessing a memory storing content data, the content data including website content for distribution to a remote terminal, the website content including a display area for displaying digital media;
• receiving, via the network interface, a request for the stored web content from the remote terminal;
• calculating a time period over which a user of the remote terminal is estimated to need to browse the website content when it is rendered on the remote terminal;
• and
• transmitting, via the network interface, the website content and a delay instruction to the remote terminal, the delay instruction instructing the remote terminal to delay playback of digital media displayed in the display area until after the calculated time period has elapsed since display of the website content on the remote terminal.