OPTIMIZED DELIVERY OF SEQUENTIAL CONTENT BY SKIPPING REDUNDANT SEGMENTS

Ways to provide optimized content for sequential viewing are described. A processing server (120) may be able to retrieve source content from a storage (110). The processing server (120) may optimize the content by removing redundant and irrelevant segments. The processing server may further accelerate a playback speed associated with the optimized content. The redundancy and/or relevancy of segments may be determined based at least partly on the subject matter included in the segments, user preferences, and/or other relevant factors. The processing server (120) may receive data from multiple analytics resource and use the data to identify relevant and/or redundant segments. The processing server may provide optimized content to a content server (140) which may, in turn, provide the content to a user device (150) for playback. Alternatively, the optimized content may be generated at the user device.