Abstract: A method of approving video advertisements for placement in video content can comprise receiving and ingesting the video advertisements, obtaining a plurality of business rules, creating a database of the business rules, obtaining file information of the video advertisements, obtaining content information about the video advertisements, determining audio codec information and video codec information and/or video data of the video advertisements, determining presence and absence of a unique advertisement identifier of the video advertisements and assigning the unique advertisement identifier to the video advertisements on determining the absence of the unique advertisement identifier, storing video advertisement data in a memory, approving, rejecting and/or rating the video advertisements based on the business rules and the deterministic criteria, providing a web portal that includes user accessibility to the video advertisements and the video advertising data, and providing notification of the availability of

Abstract: A method of delivering video content to an IP-connected device comprises: sending a request for the video content, providing a source video stream and splicing information to an ingest server, determining video stream properties, determining splicing properties packaging the source video stream and properties to an edge server, and integrating a commercial video clip into the source video stream.