Share your Canvas artwork directly to Instagram Stories, right from your Spotify app. 

We've made it easy to understand how your Canvas is resonating with listeners. 

Some best practices for using the visual tool. 

If you’re an artist or part of their team, we’ll show you how to get the most out of Spotify.

Try to start and end with the same frame for a seamless loop.

3D Graphics

2D Graphics

Mix Media

Video

Hook people, then get them listening. When listeners see a Canvas, they are more likely to keep streaming (+5% on average vs. control group), share the track (+145%), add to their playlists (+20%), save the track (+1.4%), and visit your profile page (+9%).

Your Canvas reaches fans beyond Spotify, too. When you or a listener shares your track from the Spotify app to Instagram Stories, your Canvas will loop in the background of the Story — along with track details and a link back for fans to 'Play on Spotify'. 

Easily add a new Canvas whenever you’re inspired — whether that’s once for your release or again and again — to reach new listeners and keep them coming back.

Check your Spotify for Artists account for Canvas access

Engage your fans in a whole new way with Canvas, a short looping visual you can add to each of your tracks on Spotify. It’s album artwork, for the streaming age. 

Check out SoundBetter to find world-class visual designers to hire and create your Canvases.

Follow these tips to give your fans and listeners the best experience on Spotify.

Consider excluding your song title and artist name as they’ll already appear in the Now Playing view.

Choose footage without talking, singing, or rapping.

Avoid rapid video cuts or intense flashing graphics that may overwhelm your listeners/viewers.

Consider how to tell a full story within 3 - 8 seconds. Trimmed down music videos and incomplete stories can leave fans expecting more.

Remember that graphics along the sides of your Canvas (outside the Safe Area) will not show up on some phones.

Looking for help to express your vision? Discover and hire world-class visual artists on SoundBetter.

Heads up: We have some limits on the types of content you can use as a Canvas.

Make sure that you have the correct permissions if you use media that is not your own.

This means that the Canvas should not be hateful, abusive, pornographic, threatening, or obscene.

Canvas is a place for you to enhance and add to your artistic message, and should not be used to sell anything or be overly promotional. Please follow these guidelines:

Do not drive traffic outside of Spotify. This includes but is not limited to directing people to any websites or URLs, ticket vendors, and encouraging follows or likes on social media.

Any text must be relevant to the specific track and not distract from your underlying image/artwork. It should not promote other songs or unrelated albums, social media accounts, brands (including use of Spotify’s logo), products, discounted deals, fan experiences or encourage fans to take part in contests or sweepstakes. Any text should be ancillary to the image or artwork you choose, which should always remain the primary focus of the Canvas surface.

Spotify reserves the right to remove Canvases that misuse the surface for overly promotional purposes.

Canvas appears in a vertical format to completely fill the background of the Now Playing screen.

Canvases are viewed on different types of phones. The Hidden Area will not be visible on taller phones such as the iPhone X and Samsung S9. Additionally, the Player Controls will partially obstruct your Canvas at the top and bottom of the screen on all phones.

Anything inside the Safe Area will be clearly visible to all listeners. 

Download our templates to use in your editing software.

The easiest way to post Canvases across your catalog.

Head to the Catalog page, click on a song and click “Add Canvas”

Remember to only use content you own or have rights to use.

Note that Spotify users in select regions and countries (Middle East & North Africa, Russia, India, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Moldova) are not able to see Canvases in their app at this time.

First, make sure your app is updated to the latest version from the App Store (iOS) or Play Store (Android).

Either shoot a new video on your phone or email/text a video file to yourself and save it to your Photo Library.

Jump into the Spotify for Artists app, tap on an album, and then tap on a track.

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