System and method of managing access to time-restricted content

[0019]Embodiments disclosed herein disclose systems and methods configured to provide time-limited access to requested content by individual users, web-crawling entities or social media platform entities. For example, content such as text, images, audio, video, or combinations thereof, may be provided without charge or access requirements to one or more content requesting users or content requesting entities. After an initial content access period, the time-restricted content may be available to a non-subscriber content requestor only upon payment or when a user meets a particular subscriber access requirement condition, such as subscribing to a membership account that provides the content or an affiliate content providing site, performing a task or accessing other content.

[0020]Generally, the following disclosure describes three distinct types of media content that are arranged into two groups of the distinct media types. A first representative media type is an unrestricted media cont