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Pacificaster Content Guidelines

 

Pacificaster is designed to be a rewarding opportunity for you and other producers to distribute your work. This is a curated collection of podcasts that have their origins in grassroots and noncommercial expressions. This powerful medium allows you to share information, perspectives, stories, and ideas with listeners around the world. We ask that your message be meaningful, truthful, and strengthens understanding. We also ask that you keep a high standard of production quality to delight and enrich your listeners and the community at large.

The following content guidelines are to help you know and maintain what’s expected.  We will keep you informed of significant changes.

If a producer's content does not meet these guidelines, Pacificaster may take action to remove the content. We value the work offer to and will work to help resolve issues that may arise.


TRANSPARENCY AND ACCURACY OF CONTENT AND LABELS

Trigger Warnings: Producers must warn listeners or give trigger warning in the text and at the beginning of audio when episodes contain explicit content or triggers (for example, profanity or mature content.)

Complete Content: New podcasts should be posted consistently at a rate of one or more per month.

Honest presentation: Podcasts may not deceive listeners by mimicking, copying, or using other content or search terms without permission. Producers may not pretend to be someone else or pretend affiliation with someone else without their permission.

Legal Rights and Permissions: Podcasts may not contain creative materials that infringe on the rights of others. This includes audio, images, music, performance, and any other owned creative content. Producers must ensure their podcasts only include content that they have the rights to use. Producers are fully responsible for agreements and the owner(s) and can submit proof upon request. Pacifica has the right to take down content for review if legally necessary.

Duplicate Content and Repeated Submissions: Producers should submit new content for each episode.

Transparency: Producers must not encourage or cause any misleading, fraudulent, improper, unlawful, or dishonest activities such as artificially increasing, falsifying, or otherwise manipulating follows, listens, ratings, or reviews, or attempt to influence search using inaccurate or inappropriate terms.

Metadata: Podcast metadata (for example, titles, descriptions, language, etc.) should accurately represent the corresponding content that is distributed

 

ILLEGAL, HARMFUL, OR OBJECTIONABLE CONTENT

Illegal Content: Content must comply with laws and regulations.

Maintaining Appropriate Content: Producers will not submit content that may lead to harmful or dangerous outcomes, or content that is obscene or gratuitous, including misinformation, encouragement of suicide or self-harm, encouragement of criminal activity or illegal acts, encouragement of violence, defamatory, discriminatory, or mean-spirited content, including references or commentary about religion, race, sexual orientation, gender, national or ethnic origin, or other targeted groups, particularly if the content is likely to humiliate, intimidate, harass, or harm individuals or groups or includes specific threats of violence against certain groups or individuals.

Cultural Sensitivities: You are responsible for being knowledgeable about and, if appropriate, addressing any cultural sensitivities before distributing a podcast.


FINANCIAL GAIN

Noncommercial Mission: Podcasts in Pacificaster are for the public good, not for promoting business ventures or building followings for any other financial purpose other than attracting underwriters.

Definition of Underwriting:  Support for a podcast host in the form of funds, goods, or services that require the podcast host to identify its sponsor in the podcast. Underwriting support is considered a gift and shall be reviewed for acceptance in accordance with the guidelines stated below. It is an opportunity for businesses and organizations and individuals to identify themselves with your podcast’s mission. The agreement should not confer the right upon the underwriter to influence content.

Underwriting Acknowledgement Guidelines: Underwriting acknowledgements are not commercial in nature. They will begin with the phrase stating support (such as “Support for … comes from…”) from business, organizations, or individuals providing funds, goods, or services.

Underwriting Announcements may contain the following:

  • Name of underwriter
  • Underwriter’s address, website, and phone number
  • Brand or trade name of the underwriter’s product or service
  • Underwriter’s slogan, as long as it is not promotional
  • Length of time the underwriter has been in business
  • Value-neutral description of an event, service, or product provided by the underwriter
     

Underwriting Announcements may not contain the following:

  • Language that is clearly promotional in nature
  • Comparative or qualitative language (“Best”… “first rate”…)
  • Any reference to cost, discounts, or financial incentives (including “free”)
  • Calls to action
  • Inducements to buy, sell, or lease

 

Editorial Independence: When accepting business sponsorship in the form of underwriting and contributions, the podcast host should use the following guidelines below for ensuring integrity and continuity of values of free, sincere, and open public discourse. This should assure audiences that we adhere to editorial standards and that our services are free from undue or improper influence.

We expect underwriters at this podcast host to reflect these values, who are individuals, organizations, and businesses with core values of community, cultural development and who promote the common good. We expect underwriters who behave in some of the ways listed below:

  • Engage in fair and equal treatment of all races, genders, sexual orientations, national origins,  ages, religions, marital status, or mental disabilities
  • Engage in fair labor practices
  • Operate sustainably and plan for future generations’ needs
  • Encourage human rights
  • Respect and protect the environment
  • Show and/or encourage local entrepreneurial initiative, local self-reliance and sustainability
  • Support the local economy
  • Provide for basic human needs at no profit
  • Encourage and promote local arts and culture
  • Provide local food
  • Generate conditions for the flourishing of life and creative vision for our community

Pacificaster.org reserves the right to refuse any podcast with underwriting support or funding support by individuals, businesses, or organizations out of alignment with the above-stated values.

Pacifica will not claim income from underwriting secured by the podcast producer of an affiliate station.

If the podcast producer is at an affiliate station, revenue-sharing with that station may apply and should be discussed with local station management.
Program Agreement

 

The mission of Pacificaster is to provide a curated collection of noncommercial podcasts with origins in grassroots communities, sharing information, human perspectives, stories, and ideas that enrich and further meaning and strengthen understanding.

Podcasts are accepted based on their alignment with Pacificaster.org’s mission to distribute meaningful, truthful, and transparent content that furthers understanding and community-building ideas and information. Our emphasis is on grassroots local and progressive voices.

I understand that shows must be approved at the curators’ discretion. My show does not espouse violence, prejudice, or misinformation and aligns with Pacificaster’s mission as stated above. I have reviewed the production guidelines provided and agree to follow them to the best of my ability. I understand that Pacifica may change the guidelines from time to time.

I can produce my podcast regularly and dependably for distribution – I understand that if I stop producing content, my podcasts may be removed from the site at Pacifica’s or affiliate station’s discretion.

I understand that by using Pacificaster.org as a host, I will be able to distribute to other platforms.

If my content originates from another podcast host, I understand that I am also able to populate Pacificaster.org for distribution by using my RSS feed as the source.

I own my content and have the authority to grant Pacifica all intellectual property rights to distribute.

I understand that I have the right to remove content.

I am not using copyrighted licensed creative elements (text, audio, music, images, performance, etc). without license for use.

I have used licensed creative elements (music, text, images, performance, etc) and I have license to use these. I am fully responsible for the agreement between myself and the owner(s) and can submit proof upon request. I understand that Pacifica has the right to take down content for review if legally necessary.

I understand that access to Pacificaster.org is renewed annually and that failure to pay the renewal fee will result in termination of access.

I understand that I cannot share my access code to Pacificaster.org. If I work with a team, I am the sole person designated as having access.

My show has good, professional-grade sound quality.

I agree to this audio file format: bit rate - 128 kbps, sample rate: 44.100 kHz. My podcasts are longer than 120 minutes. If my content is longer, I can make a break it into a series of installments.

I fully disclose if my podcast is funded by a foreign government.

I will not place any sponsor/underwriter or third-party name, logo, or other identifying promotional material on my podcast page.

I understand that my podcast may not include advertising.

I understand that underwriters I secure must be aligned with Pacificaster.org guidelines Pacifica reserves the right to refuse distributing content if they do not comply. (changed location on the list)

I understand my podcast may include underwriting. If I am at a Pacifica affiliate station, I understand that terms regarding underwriting or underwriting income may apply; if so, I will ask my stations.

I understand that I may not put sponsor logos on the web site page (in contract)

I understand that Pacifica reserves the right to insert sponsorship or underwriting.

This application is provided to highlight some, but in no way, all the important terms and conditions of your users agreement.

I understand that I have signed an agreement that allows me access to Pacificaster.org and am responsible for understanding the contents of the agreement.  I have read and fully understand my users agreement in its entirety and will comply with it.