Why is my playlist not showing up in search?

[#1]

I make playlists related to subject matter for my students. If they cannot search and find my playlist when they enter the title, this is a problem. Why is this happening??? Thanks.

[Bittencourt]

Hi there, thanks for writing.

While all songs and albums in Spotify are indexed, playlists are not. There's a crazy number of public playlists and with so many created each day it would take massive resources to index all of them and show them in search. And since a lot of playlists could have similar names, you might find a few thousands playlists with the same name and you would be scrolling for hours and hours. That's why just some of them are shown in the results, like the popular playlists.

So, the recommended method is to go to a playlist and copy the HTTP link in the options so that you can send the link to someone and when they open the link your playlist will open up in Spotify.

Spotify also indexes user profiles, so if you have made the playlist public so that it appears on your profile, they could search for your profile and find it there. You can also copy the HTTP link for your profile for sharing. (just like playlists)

Let me know if you have any other questions!