Marketplace FAQ’s
Spotlighters can build their sticker wall in their profile to display digital artwork collected through the Spotlight Marketplace - which we call STICKERS. The Marketplace is denoted by the market icon on the App's bottom navigation. You can also get to the Marketplace from your Sticker wall inside your profile.
Why choose digital Stickers at Spotlight?
1. They are more sustainable than a physical product. It is estimated that a digital good has a 95% smaller carbon footprint than its physical counterpart. By purchasing from Organizations and Artists in the digital world, you support the circular economy in a better way for the environment.
2. Stickers inform wellness and create an impact. They help provide people with a way to be more expressive with their giving and doing. Sticker Campaigns are connected to impact, which means each acquisition of a Sticker helps to move the needle for a cause.
Note: Spotlight is building a marketplace for movements where digital artwork can accelerate change. Art in the marketplace is representative of interests, personality, history, legacy, and the causes that matter.
How do I become a creator? I don’t see a way to upload stickers.
Organizations and Artists can apply to become a Merchant on Spotlight. Merchants receive a Creator Tag which allows them to originate. Merchants can originate digital merchandise as:
1. Free Stickers
2. Paid Stickers
3. Campaign Stickers
Spotlight's Marketplace is a niche space to sell digital artwork, capsule collections, and cultivated drops directly to Modern Advocates worldwide who shape the world with their actions and purchases. A good experience is radial - and that starts with understanding your rights and expectations as a seller.
Account Setup
To get started, you will need a personal account to activate an organization’s account.
Once your organization is approved by Spotlight, you can request access to the Boneyard Marketplace. To get invited, you must connect with a sales representative to make sure it is a good fit and that you can meet the Seller Basic requirements and are a good fit. Contact Us to get an application.
Once the above process is completed, you will pay your subscription fee and then receive a CREATOR TAG. This tag will show in your organization’s portal. This process will include connecting your Stripe account to your organization’s Spotlight portal.
From there, you can start to create digital stickers and submit them for approval.
Roadmap: Future releases of the app will provide you with more flexibility to generate art for good through NFT’s. Additionally, we will be accepting a handful of early sellers to test our physical goods integration. Reach out with any questions.
Note: Merchants agree to this policy and our Terms of Use by opening a Spotlight shop.
Follow these steps to collect and add stickers:
Tap the Marketplace icon in the bottom right-hand navigation.
Inside the Marketplace, scroll and filter through a directory of art that drives impact, thinking, and inspiration. When you see a sticker you like, click on it to get to the detail page.
Click the teal button that says ADD STICKER TO YOUR PROFILE to add it to your sticker wall.
The previous action in step 3 will add the sticker dynamically to your wall. You can now move, collage, and edit the size of the sticker by manipulating it with your fingers.
The Boneyard Marketplace Program is a members-only program designed for social enterprises, nonprofits, and individuals. Becoming a merchant in Spotlight lets you grow and expand the reach of your digital merchandising vertical. The program benefits those who wish to control their storytelling inside retail by connecting digital and physical commerce to culture and advocacy. Merchants share the aim to advocate for educational, historical, environmental, arts, and cultural enrichment through sustainable and ethical processes to produce products.
What can be listed at Spotlight?
Spotlighters come here to purchase with intent. Art-driven and consciously drafted products that they might not find anywhere else, impact-driven products vetted through third-party standards for ethical production, and campaign-oriented collections make sense to our product-ambassadors. Everything listed for sale on Spotlight must be ethical, heritage-kind, and cemented to a cause or nonprofit.
We currently are the premier home for collecting digital stickers that support the causes you care about.
Note: Spotlight is building a neon-lit destination for emerging artists, nonprofits, and brands that offer digital artwork (digital stickers, digital merchandise. Our roadmap includes the expansion of digital assets (NFTs) and physical products: posters, postcards, stickers, apparel, hats, pins, jewelry, beauty and grooming products, books and other resources. We provide a special opportunity to categorize products by social or environmental attributes such as cause alignment, values, and production highlights as a means to build transparency and trust with Advocates.
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We set a few basic principles in this Program’s agreement to establish a shared social responsibility and to abide by a code of ethics. You agree that:
Happy Workers: Workers are paid a fair wage in the production of the product.
Social Good: We work with purpose-minded brands, artists, designers, and nonprofits who prioritize people and the planet. All merchants can designate how much they want to give back and to where so that the social good aligns with brand ethos. Spotlight charges a 5% transaction fee on all goods sold - of which part of our profit goes directly back to support nonprofits and the planet.
Conscious Footprint: Product is glocally produced in small production runs, wherever possible.
Transparent Production: We encourage a fair and transparent supply chain whereby suppliers do not use sweatshops, trafficked, bonded, child or forced labor.
Planet Kind:
We suggest that any hides or furs used be a co-product of the meat industry which means we don’t list farmed fur, exotic skins or feathers.
We suggest utilizing off-cuts or recycled wood, recycled paper which means no illegal logging or deforestation practices.
We encourage wellness and beauty product suppliers to use natural, plant-based and non-synthetic ingredients, wherever possible which means no animal product testing or harmful ingredients.
We suggest products be manufactured with good inks and low chemical emissions which means no PVC or halogen and environmentally friendly inks.
We give a big thumbs up for zero plastic packaging.
Climate Crusaders: We encourage all merchants to declare a climate emergency with the aim to be carbon neutral by 2030. We suggest continuous betterment, and therefore encourage all of our brands to consider and reduce the environmental impact of their business.
If you sell Art-driven items, you agree that:
All art is designed by you. If you commission or license the art, you must reveal that you have been assigned the license or right and interest to the art by the originating artist to create a product.
You accurately describe every person involved who may hold a copyright to the artwork.
You are the owner of photographs or video content —not stock photos, artistic renderings, or photos used by other sellers or sites for which you do not have rights.
If you sell Impact-driven items, you agree that:
All listings have been vetted and approved by a third-party standard.
The impact is tied to a trusted metric that can be audited for accuracy to the effect of its impact.
If you sell Campaign-driven items, you agree that:
The nonprofit(s) must be associated and vetted through Spotlight. You may not collect funds through third party or external means for an organization not listed in our directory.
You must use our tools to define the campaign terms including match guidelines, eligibility requirements, and deadlines.
You must pre-fund your Giving Wallet to earmark funds to support your campaign.
How do I raise money on Spotlight for a cause?
As your home for expressive giving, we offer a few handy features for building purpose into your marketing initiatives that then elevates product into impact-merchandise and organizes your CSR and ESG goals into an efficient system.
Note: If you are raising money on behalf of a nonprofit, you do not need to obtain that nonprofit’s consent; however you may only use Spotlight to raise money for a nonprofit in our vetted directory.
Stickers integrate with our Giving Wallet feature to expand as Campaigns for an innovative way to crowdfund for what you care about.
Giving Wallet
All wallet holders benefit from a trusted giving solution that activates donation processing to US-based nonprofits, vetted across 1200 lists to ensure donor safety. Nonprofits can utilize Spotlight’s Giving Wallet to receive social donations within the platform and enjoy automated tax receipts.
For-profits can utilize Spotlight’s Giving Wallet to manage your corporate social responsibility marketing funds which can be leveraged to support cause sponsorships and social gifting.
Cause Sponsorships
Funds loaded to a Giving Wallet can be earmarked to commerce as a medium to impact. Your wallet must contain funds to be able to process sponsorships via Marketplace Campaigns.
What is the Marketplace vibe?
There is a wonderful opportunity to be able to control pricing and create ecological and social good within a niche environment. Maintaining an intriguing and educational forum for impact-led merchandise is imperative to the success for all parties.
There’s innovativeness to culture and there are feelings behind a vibe. If you can envision the imagined tectonic plates where Gonzo x Bauhaus overlap - that’s the abstract space of the Spotlight marketplace vibe. We want to elevate the positive, possible, and purposefulness. We aim to bring art back into contact with everyday life and to see the personality of the piece bring about justice, happiness, and critical thinking.
What are the seller standards?
Seller Standards
By listing a product for sale on Spotlight you understand and agree that you are responsible for complying with all applicable laws and regulations for the products you list for sale, including any required labels and warnings. Spotlight assumes no responsibility for the accuracy, labeling, or content of your listings.
Meeting Integrity & Hospitality Level Standards
Seller Integrity is a must to be and remain a seller on Spotlight. This means that you must provide great customer service and maintain trust with your buyers. These requirements are called our Seller Integrity & Hospitality Level Standards. Spotlight may reach out to you or revoke your Creator permissions if your shop fails to meet Spotlight's Seller Integrity Hospitality Level Standards.
By selling on Spotlight, you agree to:
Respect Time. Sellers must ship an item or otherwise complete a transaction without delay, unless there is an exceptional circumstance. Please be aware that legal requirements for shipping times vary by country.
Respect Communication. Sellers must respond to messages in a timely manner.
Respect Policies. Sellers should establish clear policies and their commitments to transparently stipulate to buyers their commitments. Sellers should also honor Spotlight’s policies around Content Policy which includes no vulgarity, no misinformation, and no hate.
Respect Responsibility. Sellers should be responsible for errors and to meet buyers expectations. This includes coolly resolving disputes and disagreements.
Respect Ability. Sellers should be upfront about the ability to fulfill and carry out an order. Sellers must notify the buyer and cancel the order if it can’t happen.
Respect Privacy. Sellers must safeguard personal information.