Abstract: A user, seeking to modify an established content play list will enter an alteration request specifying the desired alterations, which can include the deletion and/or addition of content as well as alteration of the content order. A user profile (127) authenticates the user to determine whether the user has the authority to alter the established play list and if so, for which subset of locations. Following user authentication, the established play list undergoes modification for the subset of locations for which the user is authorized to alter the content play list. In this way, a user can locally modify an established play list to add and/or alter content, based on that user's profile, without altering the content at other locations.

Abstract: An apparatus (180) for managing media approval messages in an advertising system (100) includes an approval module (182) that stores information identifying approvers for a piece of media content. A message module (185) routes a first message seeking an approval decision for media content to at least one approver in accordance with the media content sought to be approved. A rules-based module (184) prescribes routing of at least one second message launched by the message module to at least one recipient depending on the action taken by an initial approver for a particular advertisement.