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Sponsorship is an advertising purchase that also funds a student's entry. It buys placement on 0Skips surfaces — never inside a student's video.

Draft. This page describes the current design and is not a legal document. Nothing here is final until it has been reviewed.

The founder and an attorney have to approve this page before the pilot opens. It is a pilot: there are no case studies and no performance history on it yet, and there will not be invented ones.

Who is behind this so far

Silver Sponsor · Utah Marriage Commission Confirmed Silver Sponsor. StrongerMarriage.org is the Utah Marriage Commission’s official public resource destination. Utah Marriage Commission online

Organizations we are reaching out to

These are organizations 0Skips is reaching out to. None of them has confirmed sponsorship or endorsed 0Skips.

my529 · Crumbl · BambooHR · Weave · Qualtrics · Awardco · UCCU · Williamsburg Academy of Utah · Cotopaxi

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Business Sponsor

Funds student entries. Sponsorship covers the real cost of putting a student through the contest — roughly $100 for a first entry: a contestant T-shirt, human coaching, AI tool access, and judging. Every eligible student's first entry is sponsor-funded, so it costs the student nothing.

What it buys:

Advertising placement on 0Skips-owned surfaces: contest pages, the fan and Support Crew dashboards, email, the Finale, and regional pages.
Attribution and reporting in Sponsor Backstage: impressions, clicks, referrals, QR scans, verified redemptions.
Community impact reporting: how many students your sponsorship funded, and what they did.
Sponsor Boost Points, at $1,000 and above. They cannot affect who qualifies or who becomes a finalist — judges decide that on the rubric — and they are not votes.

What it does not buy: any placement inside a student's video. There are no sponsor logos, sponsor messages or donation asks in the required video or its outro. That boundary protects the students, and it protects you from being the brand that put an ad in a 14-year-old's art.

T-Shirt Coupon Sponsor

$1,000. Turn 0Skips T-shirts into customers: create an offer for anyone who walks into your business wearing an official 0Skips shirt.

You set the offer — a percentage off, a dollar amount off a minimum, a free item, whatever you choose — and name your locations.
A fan or a student shows the shirt and gets the offer.
They upload a photo of the receipt.
After it is verified, they earn a recognition badge. Nobody earns Boost Points for spending money.
Your report shows verified redemptions and verified purchase totals — an actual purchase, not an impression.

Offer changes take effect the next day, not immediately. If a fan saw your offer this morning and is driving to you this afternoon, they get the offer they saw. You can pause, edit or replace an offer any time; the next-day rule applies to all of it.

The 125% figure, stated honestly

0Skips is working to earn a larger share of your existing social advertising budget by striving to deliver roughly 125% of the value you are currently getting from that spend, measured across impressions, clicks, engagement, and — where it can be tracked — conversions.

That is a goal, and it will only ever be stated as a goal. It is not a guarantee and not a contractual commitment. It is measured against a historical advertising benchmark you supply and agree to, so it needs a number from you before it means anything. There is no performance history to point at, because this is a pilot.

Where something cannot be tracked, the report says so rather than estimating. Ad events are counted on 0Skips surfaces with no personal data attached: no names, no profiles, no cross-site tracking.

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Sponsor questions

Status: DRAFT. This page describes a pilot. It contains no example sponsors, no testimonials, and no performance history, because none exist yet. It will not contain invented ones.

A business that funds student entries. Sponsorship covers the real cost of running a student through the contest — roughly $100 per first entry: a contestant T-shirt (about $25), human coaching (about $30), AI tool access (about $15), and judging (about $30).

Every eligible student’s first entry is sponsor-funded, so it costs the student nothing.

Advertising placement on 0Skips-owned surfaces: the fan dashboard, the Support Crew dashboard, contest pages, email, the Finale, and regional pages.

Attribution and reporting in Sponsor Backstage: impressions, clicks, referrals, QR scans, verified redemptions, and — where a student generated the lead — which student brought you in.

Community impact reporting: how many students your sponsorship funded, and what they did.

Boost Points, at $1,000 and above. See below.

What a sponsor does not get: ad placement inside a student’s video. Sponsors fund the 0Skips ecosystem, not the student’s creative work. There are no sponsor logos, sponsor messages, or donation asks inside the required student video or its outro. That boundary is deliberate and it is not negotiable — it protects the students, and it protects you from being the brand that put an ad in a 14-year-old’s art.

What is the T-Shirt Coupon Program?

An opt-in program that turns 0Skips fans into measurable foot traffic.

You set up an offer — a percentage off, a dollar amount off a minimum purchase, a free item, whatever you choose — and name your participating locations.
A fan or participant wearing an official 0Skips T-shirt shows it at your location and gets the offer.
They upload a photo of the receipt.
After we verify it, they earn a recognition badge. Nobody earns Boost Points for spending money.
Your Sponsor Backstage report shows verified redemptions and verified purchase totals.

Offer changes take effect the next day, not immediately. If a fan saw your offer this morning and is driving to you this afternoon, they get the offer they saw. Sponsor Backstage shows you your current offer and your pending one side by side.

You can pause, edit, or replace an offer any time. The next-day rule applies to all of it.

Qualifying business sponsors at $1,000 or more receive Boost Points as an included perk. They are the only way an organization receives Boost Points without earning them through participant actions, and individuals cannot buy them at all.

Allocation rules (locked 2026-09-05): 10 Backstage Boost Points per $1 of sponsorship per week, use-it-or-lose-it (unused points expire Sunday at 11:59 pm Mountain Time); and 100 Boost Points per $1 of sponsorship for Finale allocation. Administrators hold these as settings.

What Boost Points cannot do, for anyone including you:

They cannot affect whether a student’s entry qualifies.
They cannot affect who becomes a finalist. Judges decide that on the rubric.
They are not votes. Voting is a separate system.
They are not a college savings contribution. That is a third separate system.

At the live Finale, allocated Boost Points help decide which of the already-selected finalists wins, at a weight an administrator sets. That is the one place they touch an outcome, and it is after judging is finished.

A $50 business sponsorship can satisfy a student’s Entry Challenge, but it does not qualify that business for the Boost Point perk. That threshold is $1,000.

What is the 125% figure I keep seeing?

A goal, and we will only ever state it as a goal.

0Skips aims to earn a larger share of your existing social advertising budget by working toward delivering roughly 125% of the value you are currently getting from that spend, measured across impressions, clicks, engagement, and where we can track it, conversions.

That is a target we are building toward. It is not a guarantee, it is not a contractual commitment, and we have no history to point at yet because this is a pilot. Anyone at 0Skips who presents it as a promise is doing it wrong.

How do I know the numbers are real?

Ad events are counted on 0Skips-owned surfaces with no personal data attached — no names, no profiles, no cross-site tracking. YouTube figures come from YouTube’s own public statistics. The T-shirt program reports verified receipts, which is an actual purchase, not an impression.

Where we cannot track something, the report says so rather than estimating.

Is my sponsorship tax-deductible?

Do not take an answer to that from a FAQ page. Ask your accountant, and ask us for the current paperwork. [not final — 0Skips’ organizational and tax status must be stated by counsel before this page publishes.]

Do sponsors see student data?

No. Sponsors see aggregate impact and their own attribution data. Sponsors never see a student’s real name, contact details, shipping address, family financial information, drafts, coaching feedback, or scores.

Can I put my logo on the site?

Yes, on 0Skips-owned surfaces, once your sponsorship is active and you have given us the assets and written permission to use them. Until then your name does not appear anywhere, including in mockups. We do not use placeholder logos.