Editorial Standards

Every guide, ranking, and price-per-second table on this site comes from running the test, not from rephrasing other people’s posts. This page documents how we do it, who is responsible for it, and what we do when we get something wrong.

1. Our Standards

We are practitioners. The team behind AI Video Bootcamp ships AI video work for paying clients and runs a community of 19,300+ creators doing the same thing. Every article on this site has to pass a single test: would the founder actually publish this in front of the community if a member asked the same question? If the answer is no, it does not get published.

That commits us to a few specific things:

• Numbers, dates, and pricing are verified at time of publish — not estimated.
• Tool reviews come from hands-on testing inside the bootcamp curriculum, with prompts and outputs we can show on request.
• If we cannot verify a claim, we either remove it or we mark it as estimated and explain how we got there.
• We name the trade-offs. There is no AI video tool that is best at everything, and we will not pretend otherwise.

2. Research and Verification

Every published guide passes through this checklist before it goes live:

• Pricing. Pulled from the vendor’s own pricing page on the day of publication. Each post stamps the verification date as “Pricing verified [Month Day, Year]”. API rates are sourced from fal.ai and the vendor’s primary documentation.
• Tool benchmarks. Run by the AI Video Bootcamp team using standardised prompt sets across multiple models. Where we cite a benchmark count (“23 of 30 tests”), the underlying tests exist and can be reproduced.
• External claims. Any factual claim from outside our own testing is linked to a primary source — vendor docs, regulator publications (FTC, NAR, US Copyright Office, EU AI Act text), academic papers, or first-party press releases. We do not cite news articles that are themselves uncited.
• Statistics. Quoted with their original source URL and year. We do not round off or restate statistics in a way that changes their meaning.

3. Authors and Editorial Ownership

Every published article carries a real Person byline, not a brand byline. Author profiles, with bio and credentials, are public:

• Mateo Starcevic Filipovic — Co-founder, AI Video Bootcamp. Forbes Technology Council member; ranked #1 on Freelancer.com out of 80 million users; founder of BrightDock (two-time Deloitte Fast 50 digital agency).
• Daniel Riley — Co-founder, AI Video Bootcamp. Viral AI creative; 200 million views in a single month; 650,000+ followers across platforms.

Every article also carries a “Last reviewed by” attestation directly under the TL;DR. The reviewer is the named author and the date is the most recent substantive update. Typo and formatting fixes do not bump that date; pricing, model versions, compliance facts, and source changes do.

4. AI-Assistance Disclosure

We teach AI image and video creation. We use AI tools in our own production process. We disclose that here so you can weigh it.

• Hero images. Many blog hero images on this site are AI-generated using the same tools the articles cover (Midjourney, Nano Banana Pro, Kling, etc.). Image alt text describes the visual content; the generation method is not currently labelled per-image, and we are evaluating C2PA Content Credentials as an industry-standard way to do that.
• Article text. Articles are written by the named author. AI tools are used the way most newsrooms now use them — for outlining, copy-editing, fact-checking against our own notes, and for restating community-tested findings in a single voice. The published claims, recommendations, and rankings are made by humans on the team, not by a model.
• Code samples and JSON-LD. Generated programmatically from typed schemas; reviewed by the author before publish.

5. Pricing and Data Verification Cadence

Tool pricing for the AI video and image space changes more often than for any other software category we cover. We re-verify every pricing-bearing article on the following cadence:

• Tool comparison and ranking posts — verified monthly. The verification date is stamped at the top of the article.
• Single-tool deep-dives — verified on each major model release for that tool, and at minimum once per quarter.
• Foundational guides (e.g. “What is AI video”, “How to learn AI video”) — verified twice per year, more often if the tool landscape shifts.

When pricing changes between verifications, we update the article and bump dateModified. When pricing changes during the verification window, the “verified [date]” line is the source of truth for what was accurate as of that day.

6. Updates and Corrections

We update articles in place when facts change, rather than republishing. A “Last updated” date appears on every post.

If we get something wrong, we want to know. Send the URL of the article, the specific claim that is incorrect, and the source you would use instead, to the contact address below. We respond to factual corrections within five business days.

• Substantive corrections (an incorrect price, a wrong attribution, a misstated regulatory fact) are noted in the article with a brief correction line and an updated dateModified.
• Minor edits (typos, formatting, link rot) are made silently.
• Material retractions (an article we no longer stand behind) are replaced with a short editor’s note explaining what changed and why, and the URL is preserved with a 301 to the closest current article.

7. Affiliate, Sponsorship, and Conflict-of-Interest Disclosure

We currently use no affiliate links, no sponsored posts, and no paid placements anywhere on this site. Tool rankings and recommendations are not influenced by vendor relationships, advertising, or any form of compensation.

AI Video Bootcamp is the paid product behind this site. We will say so in any article that recommends it. We also operate PromptWise, a SaaS product from our parent company ZeroTen Media Inc., and we will disclose that connection wherever PromptWise is recommended.

If we ever introduce affiliate links, we will mark them inline with [aff] and update this page within seven days of the change.

8. Source and Citation Style

We link the first time a source is referenced and add a sources list at the end of long-form articles. Quotations longer than fifteen words are presented as block quotes with attribution. Statistics carry the source name, year, and URL.

We do not paraphrase another publication’s analysis as if it were our own. When a finding originates outside our team, we say so and link to the original.

9. Comments and Community Posts

The AI Video Bootcamp community is hosted on Skool. Member posts inside that community are not editorial content and are not subject to this policy. When we cite a community post or member result on the public blog, we treat it the same as any external source: name the member, link the original, and verify the underlying facts.

10. Contact

For corrections, factual disputes, or questions about this policy, contact us at Contact Support.