Patent ID: 7904505

Claim:
A system comprising: at least one audio content registry component to receive an audio content item submitted by and spoken in a voice of an author of the audio content item, to register the audio content item, to receive and store an indication of an insertion point for an audio advertisement in the audio content item, and to receive and store content information associated with the audio content item, wherein the at least one audio content registry component comprises an interactive voice response (IVR) unit which provides options for the author to record the audio content item and to indicate the insertion point within a telephone call; at least one audio advertising registry component to receive the audio advertisement from an advertiser, to receive and store at least one targeting criterion associated with the audio advertisement, and to register the audio advertisement for insertion into one or more audio content items based on the at least one targeting criterion; a user profile component to store user information and at least one content pushing criterion for a user, the at least one content pushing criterion specified by the user; a download packager to automatically select the audio content item for pushing to the user in response to determining that the content information satisfies the at least one content pushing criterion, the download packager to automatically insert the audio advertisement in the insertion point based on the content information and based on the user information satisfying the at least one targeting criterion, the download packager to create a package that includes the audio content item with the audio advertisement inserted at the insertion point; and a push component to automatically push the package to the user without the user selecting the audio content item.