Abstract: A system and method for promoting commercial-media advertising and generating advertising revenue on the Internet is disclosed that enables creators of digital-media content to buy and sell media content and exhibition time directly through an online electronic marketplace. The system and method provide a platform allowing commercial advertising media buyers to both bid for and buy exhibition time directly from exhibition sellers who exhibit their videos on the Internet; and provides digital-video exhibition sellers the platform to both offer for sale and sell exhibition time directly to bidding advertising media buyers. The Invention recognizes that digital-video content creators can and do exhibit their own video content on a multitude of sites on the Internet, and in that respect, have the potential to attach a commercial element to their video content and receive monetary compensation from commercial sponsors for the product's exhibition.