Abstract: This invention relates generally to software and more specifically to systems and methods for providing a telephony-based content portal. In one embodiment, the invention includes a system for providing a content portal, the system including a computer system, the computer system being accessible to a content producer, an advertiser, and a consuming device over a communications network, the computer system configurable to receiving content from the content producer and an advertisement from the advertiser, the computer system configurable to distributing the content and the advertisement to a consumer upon the consumer accessing the computer system using the consuming device, and the computer system configurable to providing transport controls for any of the content and the advertisement. In a further embodiment, the communications network is a telephony-based network, the consuming device is a mobile phone, and the content is any of audio and visual.