Compensation Plans | 11. Compensation Plans The Company provides stock-based compensation in the form of (a) stock awards to employees and directors, comprised of restricted stock awards and restricted stock units (collectively referred to as the “Restricted Stock Awards”), (b) stock option grants to employees, directors and consultants (referred to as the “Common Stock Awards”) (c) stock option awards, restricted stock awards, unrestricted stock awards, and stock appreciation rights to employees, directors and consultants (collectively the “Common Equity Awards”), (d) stock option awards outside of the 2016 Stock Incentive Plan and 2019 Equity Incentive Plan to certain officers, directors and employees (referred to as the “Outside Options”), (e) common stock warrants to the Company’s publisher partners (referred to as the “Publisher Partner Warrants”), and (f) common stock warrants to ABG-SI, LLC (referred to as the “ABG Warrants”). Stock-based compensation and equity-based expense charged to operations or capitalized during the three months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020 are summarized as follows: Summary of Stock-based Compensation Restricted Common Common Publisher Stock Stock Equity Outside Partner ABG Awards Awards Awards Options Warrants Warrants Totals During the Three Months Ended September 30, 2021 Cost of revenue $ 11,808 $ 23,217 $ 1,696,147 $ 967 $ - $ - $ 1,732,139 Selling and marketing - 3,970 1,341,948 75,193 - - 1,421,111 General and administrative 414,163 78,017 4,081,766 - - 745,636 5,319,582 Total costs charged to operations 425,971 105,204 7,119,861 76,160 - 745,636 8,472,832 Capitalized platform development 2,328 - 483,854 2,690 - - 488,872 Total stock-based compensation $ 428,299 $ 105,204 $ 7,603,715 $ 78,850 $ - $ 745,636 $ 8,961,704 During the Three Months Ended September 30, 2020 Cost of revenue $ 35,610 $ 53,149 $ 1,178,276 $ 2,471 $ 992 $ - $ 1,270,498 Selling and marketing 323,164 42,695 734,391 43,900 - - 1,144,150 General and administrative 80,306 127,786 855,390 - - 364,248 1,427,730 Total costs charged to operations 439,080 223,630 2,768,057 46,371 992 364,248 3,842,378 Capitalized platform development 88,619 32,680 267,013 1,188 - - 389,500 Total stock-based compensation $ 527,699 256,310 $ 3,035,070 $ 47,559 $ 992 $ 364,248 $ 4,231,878 Stock-based compensation and equity-based expense charged to operations or capitalized during the nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020 are summarized as follows: Restricted Common Common Publisher Stock Stock Equity Outside Partner ABG Awards Awards Awards Options Warrants Warrants Totals During the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2021 Cost of revenue $ 60,838 $ 169,482 $ 4,694,925 $ 4,463 $ - $ - $ 4,929,708 Selling and marketing - 13,899 3,820,996 224,371 - - 4,059,266 General and administrative 559,505 297,283 10,344,247 - - 1,498,217 12,699,252 Total costs charged to operations 620,343 480,664 18,860,168 228,834 - 1,498,217 21,688,226 Capitalized platform development 11,276 5,071 1,324,805 6,472 - - 1,347,624 Total stock-based compensation $ 631,619 $ 485,735 $ 20,184,973 $ 235,306 $ - $ 1,498,217 $ 23,035,850 During the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2020 Cost of revenue $ 108,936 $ 150,915 $ 3,261,542 $ 5,644 $ 36,654 $ - $ 3,563,691 Selling and marketing 920,566 102,206 2,114,595 142,767 - - 3,280,134 General and administrative 238,558 437,614 2,430,553 150,577 - 1,084,826 4,342,128 Total costs charged to operations 1,268,060 690,735 7,806,690 298,988 36,654 1,084,826 11,185,953 Capitalized platform development 234,611 154,445 864,656 5,451 - - 1,259,163 Total stock-based compensation $ 1,502,671 845,180 $ 8,671,346 $ 304,439 $ 36,654 $ 1,084,826 $ 12,445,116 Unrecognized compensation expense and expected weighted-average period to be recognized related to the stock-based compensation awards and equity-based awards as of September 30, 2021 was as follows: Schedule of Unrecognized Compensation Expense Restricted Common Common Publisher Stock Stock Equity Outside Partner ABG Awards Awards Awards Options Warrants Warrants Totals Unrecognized compensation expense $ 2,750,000 $ - $ 54,255,910 $ 135,741 $ - $ 3,788,429 $ 60,930,080 Expected weighted-average period expected to be recognized (in years) 1.68 - 2.14 0.44 - 1.63 2.08 Pursuant to an amendment with ABG-SI, LLC on June 4, 2021, the exercise price related to the ABG Warrants exercisable for up to 10,994,922 0.42 per share from $ 0.84 per share in exchange for additional benefits under the Sports Illustrated licensing agreement. Further details as of the date these condensed consolidated financial statements were issued or were available to be issued are provided under the heading Compensation Plans |