3. The method of claim 1 further comprising: running an automatic content recognition (ACR) process to search for a match between the generated query fingerprints and the original fingerprints stored in the fingerprint database; and retrieving the meta information associated with the matching original multimedia content.
1. A method to add a tagged snippet of multimedia content to a playlist based on a number of viewers, the method comprising: searching a fingerprint database to find a match between query fingerprints for a snippet of multimedia content captured from a multimedia program at a timestamp and original fingerprints of matching original multimedia content stored in the fingerprint database that identifies the snippet of multimedia content and the multimedia program; generating a tag representing the snippet of multimedia content, wherein the tag, the timestamp, meta information associated with the matching original multimedia content, and a monitored variable for a number of viewers of the snippet of multimedia content are stored in a database storage as a tagged snippet of multimedia content; and adding the tagged snippet of multimedia content to a playlist for the identified multimedia program if the number of viewers of the tagged snippet exceeds a threshold.