Compiling and analyzing statistics for determining audience ratings of elections and decision-making in live streaming and virtual events, physical spaces and live events, physical and virtual kiosks, devices and peripherals, online retail, live commerce, and digital experiences. Includes the collection, measurement, promotion, amplification, endorsement, sharing, evaluation, and interpretation of participant feedback and preferences. These processes utilize real-time voting, polling, consensus building, and sentiment analysis to assess public and private uses. Resulting data supports various applications such as purchasing, discounting, recommending, marketing, analyzing, improving, optimizing, tracking, and facilitating user experiences, decisions, and preferences. This data can also be applied in live and virtual tournaments, competitions, and gamified events for audience interaction and engagement. It can be used for market research, content personalization, engagement, customer loyalty, and refinement of products and services across various platforms, industries, and environments.