Patent ID: 8713592

Claim:
A computer implemented method for promoting subscription video channels provided on a content hosting computer system to subscribers over a network, the method comprising: providing at the content hosting computer system a plurality of subscription channels, each subscription channel including a plurality of videos controlled by a provider, and having a subscription price and a plurality of subscribers; providing the subscribers access over the network to the videos at the content hosting computer system in a subscription channel responsive to receiving over the network a payment of the subscription price for the subscription channel from the subscriber; monitoring, over a period of time, a subscriber churn rate of each subscription channel, the subscriber churn rate based on amounts of time subscribers are maintaining their subscriptions to the subscription channel; determining, by the content hosting computer system, a channel value for each subscription channel based upon a combination of the subscription price and the subscriber churn rate of the subscription channel; ranking, by the content hosting computer system, the subscription channels based upon their respective channel values; and presenting by the content hosting computer system and over the network the ranked subscription channels to a subscriber.