Every platform that publishes creative work has editorial standards. Most of them keep those standards private. We're going the other way: this article is the full, public version of the rubric our hosts use to decide which AI tracks earn a featured spot on AI Radio or AIflix. If you're a creator, treat this as the answer key. If you're a fan, treat it as the why behind what you hear on the platform.
Why publish standards at all
Two reasons. First, public standards force consistency. If we say "we feature tracks with a clear point of view" and then a track without one slips into the catalog because we liked the artist, the next host meeting becomes a debate. Public standards make those debates more honest.
Second, public standards respect creators' time. The worst experience for a serious AI musician is submitting work for months without understanding why none of it lands. Hidden criteria reward people who can read between the lines; visible criteria reward people who can make better work.
The five things we feature for
Every track we promote to AI Radio or AIflix has to clear all five of these. None of them are about polish or production budget. They're about what the work is.
1. A clear point of view
You should be able to describe the song or video in a single sentence and have it sound like a thing. "Slow gospel-electronica with a single vocal line." "Afrobeats with a real human vocal swapped over a Suno instrumental." "A four-minute neon-noir short about a courier in a flooded Tokyo." If the best one-sentence description of your work is "an AI song" or "a music video," it isn't ready for the catalog.
2. Vocal commitment
If the track has a vocal — and most do — that vocal has to feel like it means something. Pleasant, generic, emotionally flat vocals are the single most common reason a strong instrumental gets passed over. The bar isn't "professional singing." The bar is "this voice cares about what it's saying."
3. Mix discipline
The kick isn't fighting the bass. The vocal sits on top of the mix. The reverb isn't washing out the snare. The master isn't crushed. We don't expect mastered-by-Bob-Ludwig sound quality. We do expect that you've listened to your final bounce on headphones and on a phone speaker and made obvious fixes.
4. A reason to exist
An AI re-creation of a 2014 pop hit doesn't add anything to the catalog. An AI track that takes a familiar genre and twists it — a country song from the perspective of an oil rig, a drum and bass track that uses temple bells for the lead — does. We feature work that the listener couldn't have gotten somewhere else.
5. Honest provenance
You don't have to disclose every prompt. You do have to be honest about what's yours. Don't re-upload someone else's master. Don't claim a vocal you used a voice clone for is your own. If we have reasonable doubt, the track gets paused for a human moderation review before it's eligible for the catalog.
What we explicitly do not weigh
- Genre. We feature every genre. The catalog needs variety; hosts are actively looking for under-represented sounds.
- Artist size. Our biggest AI Radio hits this year came from creators with zero prior following.
- Whether you tipped during the show. Tipping is a fan behavior, not a creator behavior. We don't see and don't care.
- Whether you "know" the host. Personal relationships with hosts don't move work through the queue. Quality does.
How appeals work
If you believe your track met all five standards and still didn't get featured, email reactivvibeai@gmail.com with the submission link and we'll re-listen as a team. Most appeals get a written reply within one business day. Sometimes we tell you we missed it and add it to the catalog. Sometimes we tell you exactly which standard it didn't clear and why. Either is more useful than silence.
Why this matters for AdSense, brands, and listeners
A featured AI Radio slot has to mean something — to listeners who want a curated stream, to advertisers who place against the catalog, and to creators who put hours into a submission. Editorial standards are the contract that makes that meaning possible. We'd rather publish our standards and be held to them than be a platform where every track sounds like it could be on the radio because the radio plays everything.
If you're submitting next, read this once before you upload. If your track clears all five, you've got a real shot. Submit it here.