Tag: Spotify Ad Exchange

Spotify Unveils New Advertising Partnerships and Product Updates

October 1, 2025

Earlier this year during Spotify Advance, we announced a series of updates to make advertising on Spotify more flexible and automated. Today, we’re building on that momentum with a powerful suite of new partnerships and product features designed to make it even easier for advertisers to buy, create, and measure success on Spotify.

New partnerships and expanded reach

We’re continuing to invest in automating our ad platform with enhancements across our automated buying channels: the Spotify Ad Exchange and Spotify Ads Manager.

Spotify Ad Exchange

For the first time, advertisers using Amazon DSP can now access Spotify’s audio and video inventory. This partnership brings together Amazon’s trillions of shopping, streaming, and browsing signals and Spotify’s global audience of 696 million monthly users, enabling advertisers to reach engaged audiences at scale while providing access to full-funnel measurement and attribution.

“By combining Amazon’s diverse audiences and first-party signals with Spotify’s high-quality content and engaged fan base, we’re creating new and meaningful ways for advertisers to amplify their omnichannel advertising strategies by leveraging a deeper level of insights only available through Amazon DSP,” said Meredith Goldman, Director, Amazon DSP at Amazon Ads. “Amazon DSP now has unprecedented scale across Amazon owned and operated and open internet audio supply, allowing us to set new standards for holistic campaign planning and activation—all in one place.”

But that’s not all. We’re also expanding our programmatic ecosystem with these key updates:

    • ID5 partnership: Advertisers can now reach music and podcast fans across Europe more effectively, thanks to enhanced addressability for programmatic campaigns via ID5’s digital identity solution.
    • Yahoo DSP integration: Advertisers can now buy Spotify inventory through Yahoo DSP via a new direct integration. With the Spotify Ad Exchange, advertisers have seen conversion rates improve by nearly 70% and cost per action drop by almost 90%, according to Yahoo data from July to September 2025. This direct integration also helps advertisers better target and measure audiences across Spotify using Yahoo ConnectID.
    • For publishers: Starting in 2026, Megaphone-hosted podcast publishers will be able to book private marketplace deals via the Spotify Ad Exchange. This will empower publishers to set up non-guaranteed deals with one or many advertisers, expanding their revenue opportunities.

Spotify Ads Manager

We’re also continuing to innovate within Spotify Ads Manager with new tools and partnerships to help advertisers of all sizes create, optimize, and measure their campaigns:

    • Smartly partnership: We’re partnering with Smartly to expand access to our inventory to more advertisers. With Spotify Ads Manager integrating into Smartly, advertisers will gain new ways to reach audiences through audio, display, and video, supported by Smartly’s AI-powered creative, automation, and measurement.
    • Split Testing tool: Advertisers will soon be able to run controlled experiments to see which creative elements resonate most with audiences, optimizing for metrics like completion rate, click-through rate, cost per click, and cost per conversion.

Growing momentum and proven results

Spotify’s automated buying channels for advertisers are seeing rapid adoption and delivering real results. Since we launched the Spotify Ad Exchange in April, the number of advertisers using it has increased by 142%. On Spotify Ads Manager, campaigns using the Web Traffic objective have seen page view rates 103% higher compared to brand awareness campaigns, and campaigns using the App Install objective have achieved install rates 4.3 times higher than non-optimized campaigns.

What this means for brands

Spotify’s scale and engagement remain unmatched. According to a 2024 global GWI study, 90% of users make Spotify part of their daily routines, with people spending more than two hours a day on the platform. And according to another recent GWI survey, 65% of users agree that time spent on Spotify feels more positive than time spent on social media. In a world of doom scrolling and distraction traps, Spotify offers something different, with users coming to the platform for a sense of connection and genuine value.

With these latest updates, we’re making it easier than ever for advertisers of all sizes to reach leaned-in audiences in a positive environment, whether you’re running a global campaign or just getting started.

“We’ve been hard at work enhancing our automated buying channels to make it easy for advertisers to buy, create, and measure on Spotify,” said Brian Berner, Spotify’s Global Head of Advertising Sales and Partnerships. “Now we’re bringing even more flexibility and control for advertisers, enabling them to reach our highly engaged global audience and drive impact with their campaigns.”

Ready to amplify your brand’s performance? Learn more about how brands can connect with listeners through Spotify Advertising.

The Three Key Takeaways for Advertisers From Our Spotify Advance Event

April 2, 2025

The next stage of Spotify Advertising has arrived. Today, during our Spotify Advance event in New York City, we unveiled a host of updates that make it easier for advertisers to buy, create, measure, and get clear results on Spotify’s ad platform. These efforts reflect a big leap forward in automated buying and creative innovation for Spotify and the broader digital audio industry, most notably, the new Spotify Ad Exchange. 

We know that one of the reasons advertisers turn to us is because we’re constantly innovating at the intersection of culture, tech, and creativity. 

So we now have new ways to help advertisers jump into Spotify’s creative playground with ease, including our new Spotify Gen AI Ads.

1. We’re modernizing our ad platform to give advertisers the flexibility to buy Spotify in the way that works best for them: the new Spotify Ad Exchange and our self-serve Spotify Ads Manager.

  • Spotify Ad Exchange (SAX) is our new programmatic offering. For the first time, advertisers can now access Spotify’s engaged, logged-in users via real-time auction with full addressability and measurement capabilities in whatever way works best for them. Beginning today, in addition to The Trade Desk, the Spotify Ad Exchange is now available via Google’s Display & Video 360 and Magnite, with Yahoo DSP, Adform, and many more to come soon. These partners now have access to our suite of audio, video, and display formats across music, with podcasts coming soon. SAX is now available to advertisers across the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, India, Singapore, Brazil, and Mexico.
  • Spotify Ads Manager: We’re continuing to innovate our self-serve platform with more advanced targeting capabilities, new 1P and 3P measurement solutions, and new outcome-based objectives to help advertisers of all sizes create, optimize, and measure their Spotify campaigns, including Spotify Pixel, Custom Audiences, key third-party partnerships, and a new App Installs objective.

2. We’re making it easier than ever for advertisers to create with Spotify.

  • Spotify Gen AI Ads: We’re bringing our decades-long AI expertise and innovative approach to our advertising partners to enable them to create scripts and voiceovers at no additional cost, making it easier than ever to create high-quality, scalable audio ads. Gen AI Ads are available to advertisers in the U.S. and Canada in Spotify Ads Manager.

  • Spotify Creative Lab: Our dedicated team of creative minds work collaboratively with brands and agencies to inspire and scale creativity and to build unique and effective campaigns made just for the Spotify platform. Our Creative Lab team has helped brands create first-of-its-kind Spotify experiences, like Bestie Mode with Coca-Cola and Oreo; American Express and Resy’s Music Taste campaign; and “100 Years of Chevrolet” in Brazil.
  • Spotify AUX: Our in-house consultancy brings together our unrivaled know-how in music, podcasts, culture, experiential, and content production to bridge the worlds of brands, artists, creators, and fandom. Our mission is to provide innovative solutions that elevate brands through the power of music and culture. Today, we’re welcoming two partners to the AUX family: Visa and Kona Big Wave. We’re also continuing our multiyear partnership with Coca-Cola.

3. We’re helping advertisers reach their goals on Spotify with new measurement tools built just for Spotify and new 3P partnerships: We’ve rebuilt our first-party measurement stack and expanded tools with key third-party partnerships, enabling advertisers to evaluate performance across the funnel.

  • New Lower-Funnel Objectives: Starting today, our new App Installs Objective enables advertisers to show ads to people likely to click and download their app, while our new Website Traffic Objective enables advertisers to optimize their campaign toward people most likely to view their website.

  • Measurement Solutions: We’ve updated Spotify Brand Lift, our 1P measurement tool that helps advertisers understand how their Spotify campaigns impact their brand metrics. We’re also bringing Spotify Brand Lift and Spotify Pixel to Ads Manager. Lastly, we’re investing in key 3P partnerships to offer greater measurement capabilities and ensure that Spotify can be a trusted partner in this ever-evolving landscape.

Check out more coverage from Spotify Advance and visit Spotify Advertising for more about our advertising program and tools.