topic Re: Embed Player Commercial Use in Spotify for Developers

Embed Player Commercial Use

Elias29 — Fri, 02 May 2025 08:01:04 GMT

Hello

I want to build an app where the Spotify Embed player is integrated. An app user inserts a Spotify link of a song and then the embed player of this song and many more are listed in a vertical scroll. I wouldn't change the Embed Player but I would embed the players into cards.
So my question: Is it allowed to display ads between the cards in the vertical scroll and therefore earn money with the ads? I read the developer terms but didn't quite understand if the embed player has the same terms as the API

Re: Embed Player Commercial Use

practical_hen — Sun, 04 May 2025 02:51:31 GMT

I am not sure if this is the same scenario as yours but I had to remove any form of playing tracks in my app to get past this, as my app would also be for commercial use (although not showing ads). I still got rejected for something else but at least they let the fact that my app was a commercial app slide, as long as it was considered a "non-streaming SDA" which means not using any of the playback endpoints whatsoever.

Re: Embed Player Commercial Use

Elias29 — Sun, 04 May 2025 15:22:07 GMT

Thanks for your answer. Do you think the 30 seconds preview in the embed player counts as "non Streaming SDA" or not

Re: Embed Player Commercial Use

practical_hen — Sun, 04 May 2025 18:16:21 GMT

As far as I know, the 30 second previews do not use the playback endpoints. I think the app can still be considered a non streaming SDA when using the previews but I am not sure. Either way, keep in mind that changes have been made recently that makes the preview_url field always return null in certain scenarios. See https://developer.spotify.com/blog/2024-11-27-changes-to-the-web-api

Re: Embed Player Commercial Use

Elias29 — Mon, 05 May 2025 20:01:50 GMT

ok, thanks for your help 🙂