Sponsor questions
These are the business terms for the 2027 pilot. Your signed agreement controls. Planned features are labelled, and they are not promises of current availability.
Who is the agreement with?
0Skips L3C, a Utah low-profit limited liability company. Sponsorship is an advertising and marketing purchase with promotional benefits. We do not promise a charitable contribution or tax deduction. Consult your own tax adviser.
Every eligible student has a free path to enter. Sponsor-funded Artist Support Packages, with an estimated value of $100, support T-shirt fulfillment, AI review, Coach Review & Feedback, judging and administration. Packages are available while funding and capacity last; a waitlist may be needed.
Funding supports the overall program unless an agreement specifies otherwise. A student counts as funded only once $100 has actually been allocated. Interest and unpaid pledges do not count. Package equivalencies are estimates, not actual funded-student totals.
20% of sponsorship revenue goes to the 0Skips Boost Fund, supporting qualifying actions including verified 529 milestones. Standard sponsorship does not promise a direct contribution to any individual student’s 529 account.
What benefits are included?
All tiers include recognition, Sponsor Backstage and season reporting, with optional T-Shirt Offers. Partner receives available automated reporting and a final summary. Bronze and above receive monthly custom impact reports and a final season report, with regional placement eligibility. Silver and above are eligible for selected Finale and livestream placements. Gold and above include T-shirt back-logo placement and premium placement priority; Platinum receives the highest placement weight and priority.
Placement depends on approved inventory and the agreement. Exclusivity and naming rights require a specific written agreement. Bronze and above use Standard Rotation across approximately 20% of available inventory, weighted by tier; Heavy Rotation may help target delivery. No fixed delivery is guaranteed unless contracted.
Benefits begin after the agreement, payment or approved arrangement, and accepted assets. They may begin before January 1, 2027. The regular season ends at the June 5, 2027 Finale; reporting and makegoods may continue afterward. There are no sponsor advertisements inside a student’s required video or outro.
What is a T-Shirt Offer?
An optional activation included with Partner and higher tiers, not a separate $1,000 product. You choose and publish dates, locations, eligible items, exclusions and redemption limits before the offer goes live. You cover its cost and train your employees; there is no reimbursement unless agreed in writing.
Ordinary changes take effect the next day in Mountain Time, without retroactive changes. Fraud, safety, legal issues, closure, technical errors or other significant problems can require an immediate pause.
Planned; verification and awards are not open yet. An activated participant visits a participating sponsor wearing an official 0Skips shirt and makes an eligible public social post with #0Skips and the sponsor identified or tagged where possible. If an offer was used, the post mentions the offer or experience.
A verified post earns 500 points, at most two awards per day at two different sponsors, and one per sponsor per person per day. No purchase or receipt is required. Spending more does not earn more points. The shirt must actually be worn; a photo of a shirt on a phone does not qualify.
Automated discovery or a submitted post link may lead to review. Duplicated, recycled, fraudulent, deleted or ineligible posts do not qualify. There is no fixed verification-time promise. Receipts may be requested for fraud or dispute evidence only. A later product return normally does not reverse a valid social-action award. 0Skips handles Boost disputes; the sponsor handles purchase and offer disputes.
Planned: the weekly pots shown above replace the old per-dollar formulas. Weeks run Monday at midnight to the next Monday in Mountain Time. Midweek activation gets the full weekly pot. Unspent points expire each week; only spent points enter the applicable Finale Bank.
Initially, at most 25% of the weekly pot can go to one contestant. Spending three points elsewhere unlocks one additional point for that contestant. This resets weekly. Cancellation stops future allocations and forfeits unspent points while preserving valid spending history.
A contestant is one solo artist or one registered group. All entries by that artist share one limit; all entries by that registered group share another. Group membership does not reduce a student’s separate solo limit. Every allocation still uses the sponsor’s one weekly balance.
Boost does not change judges’ scores, the Base Score or qualification. The Unified Boost metric counts as 0.20 of the 1.00-point Reach & Attention portion of the Contest Score (watch time 0.50, valid views 0.30, Boost 0.20), normalized within the actual award category, so it can affect category-finalist ranking; Boost Points are also 15% of the People’s Choice ranking. The scoring update is being implemented. Exact Finale Bank thresholds, caps and competitive Finale weighting are deferred; no fixed Finale multiplier is offered here.
What does the 125% goal mean?
Our goal is to deliver 125% of your sponsorship amount in measurable advertising value. It is a target, not a guarantee of ROI, revenue, sales, profit or conversions. We agree on a comparable baseline, usually a recent 30–90-day campaign with its objectives, spend, channels and metrics. Metrics are reported separately; unlike units are not combined into a misleading ROI number. Any monetary value framework, such as CPM or CPC, must be agreed.
Reports distinguish measured results from estimates and disclose tracking limitations. Material undelivered benefits are addressed with makegoods first, or an agreed proportional credit when replacement is not possible—not an automatic cash refund.
How do payment and cancellation work?
Invoices are issued by 0Skips L3C, with Net 15 terms and check or ACH instructions. Card payment is unavailable until an approved workflow is ready. Aaron Larson is the authorized signer and final pilot sponsor-content approval authority.
Cancellation before benefits begin is governed by the agreement; after benefits begin, payments are generally nonrefundable. Event changes do not automatically create a full-refund right. The signed agreement governs cancellation, termination and remedies.
Qualifying Bronze and higher sponsors in the prelaunch window may receive $5,000 in additional advertising value, with selected enhanced recognition subject to inventory. It does not automatically upgrade the tier. Staff must confirm eligibility and the window dates.
Approved aggregate campaign and impact information and authorized public stage names. Never student legal names, contacts, family information, drafts, coaching feedback or private scores. Sponsor Backstage access is limited to authorized personnel; information must not be shared outside the organization without permission.
Can my logo appear?
Once sponsorship and brand permissions are confirmed. Brand use is limited to approved purposes and the agreed period; historical archives may remain. Material messaging changes need approval. New promotion stops after the agreement ends as required by its terms. We never invent sponsors, statistics or testimonials.
Does applying sign me up or charge me?
No. An application creates no agreement, charge, account or confirmed sponsor status. Staff follow up, and an agreement plus payment or an approved arrangement is required. Features marked planned or preview are not available yet.
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