Watch and Listen: Introducing music videos on Spotify

[Luan]

Spotify knows that the listening experience is a way to connect artists with fans on many levels. But what if we could enhance these connections with a different perspective? 

With this in mind, Spotify is introducing a new and powerful way to listen to your favorite songs: Music Videos.

This exciting new feature is being rolled out in Beta for Premium users across more than 90 countries worldwide. At this point, Music Videos is with a limited catalog, but it includes hits from local artists and global ones like Ed Sheeran, The Weeknd, and Ariana Grande.

How to watch music videos on Spotify:

• Music Videos is being rolled out in Beta for Premium users in some specific countries. This includes Brazil, Colombia, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya, Philippines, Poland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Egypt and the United Kingdom.
• Music Videos is available for Premium users on iOS, Android, desktop, and TV devices. 
• You can access it through the Now Playing View, when listening to supported music tracks. You just need to tap the “Switch to Video” toggle and the music video will start playing from the beginning. To head back to audio-only mode, tap on “Switch to Audio”.
• You can watch the videos in either portrait or landscape modes, and it is also available for Picture-in-Picture (PiP) mode.

Considering it's in Beta, Spotify will continue to improve the new feature based on feedback both from users and artists.

Currently, Spotify is working on ways to improve the experience of switching the playback from music to video and vice-versa, adopting a TimeSync transaction and this update is being released to the users gradually. There is also a 18+ content enforcement to prevent minors have access to explicit content.

I hope you are as excited as I am for this new way to enhance your connection with your favorite artists. For any feedback on the matter you may have, you are more than welcome to share it with us below on this thread.

You can find the latest updates on the topic in the official announcement from the Spotify Newsroom here.

[fede160493]

Hola solamente tenes que cambiar a audio y listo

[fede160493]

Desactiva la opción que dice can

[sc_post]

I'm disappointed that videos are now also available. Where my children used to be able to use the app to listen to music, they now always watch Fortnite videos on Spotify. Is there a way to block the videos?

[fede160493]

esto no es yt asique el administrador tiene que eliminar y bloquear a los usuarios que suben estos videos 

[Merboe]

I would love a video playlist feature.

All those hit shows around new years suck. I want to make my own and watch with my family.

[Alawldn]

I would love that too...

[fede160493]

No entiendo a que te referis, si a los podcast igual abajo aparece videos recomendados y ahí te aparecen todos los videos musicales 

[Ceinaru]

How does one artist add a full music video to Spotify?
Is there a process involving the music distribution platform or can it be done via Spotify for Artists as well?

Thanks.

[fede160493]

Supuestamente con la app de Spotify para artistas se puede 

[Mark174]

It’s annoying that you have to switch to video mode at the start of every next song, please can we have option for songs to continue playing in video mode automatically 

[fede160493]

toca la sección de videos recomendado y listo 

[Alawldn]

I would love that too

[bellevilleradio]

Please, Spotify, give an option to disable all videos on account. I teach my kids to discover and listen to new music, now it is another screen-time gadget.

[mcsound2]

How do we turn video off permanently? I don't want it on, ever. At the moment, I turn it off, and it seems to just turn itself back on whenever it wants to. This is using both Spotify through my Android TV, also via on my phone app (Samsung S24) onto the same TV. Painful and very distracting when it just suddenly starts playing videos - especially annoying when you have guests round.