Advertising policy

A listing receiving paid visibility is labeled “Featured.” Featured placement can affect where an eligible class appears within a result set, but it does not convert an ineligible, stale, or unsupported record into a publishable listing.

Paid placements are: the home page Featured spots; the Featured strip at the top of matching class searches; the Featured school block on a craft or neighborhood guide; a labeled Featured class in “You might also like” on another school's class page; and the “Featured this week” block in alert emails. A paid school's own class pages do not suggest other schools' classes. A new-student offer shown on a class card is the school's own offer, stated by the school, and is shown only for paid schools. The ranking on our “best acting classes” guide is never paid.

Schools cannot purchase a fresher source-confirmation date, an indexability decision, or an accuracy claim. Those signals depend on the underlying source evidence and Arlo's publishing rules.

Payment does not buy favorable descriptions, reviews, teaching-quality claims, or guaranteed editorial coverage. Corrections to a featured listing follow the same process as corrections to any other listing.