The better it is, the better the numbers can be,
in addition to lifts in profile visits and shares.

What is
Spotify Canvas?

Spotify Canvas is a up-to-8-second looping background video for the app “Now Playing” song screen, but “pratically, Canvas is just a fancy name for an available background for short seamless loop audioless videos.” says Animated Album Cover Artist & 2D Animation Specialist MANZON, Bruno Carvalho with 25+ years of expertise and over 1.5k animated artworks. “I like to call [the videos] animated wallpapers, or just wallpapers.” completes. “[Canvas] is a valuable resource for any artist, specially for the unestablished ones. It’s an important asset for the music industry.”

[Spotify Canvas] is a valuable resource for any artist, specially for the unestablished (…) 

Instead of displaying a traditional image “of a somewhat boring static album cover art that probably still needs to find its own place and purpose in this digital era we live in since the 2000s and the emergence of Napster (laughs)”, these modern music visualizers not only offers a Full HD/4K 9:16 aspect ratio dedicated space in a determined segment of a song playback screen for seamless looped high resolution videos with up to 8 seconds long (and a minimum of 3) to be uploaded and indefinitely played in the background of each individual music track, but also revealed itself as the perfect place for high quality dynamic content like animated wallpapers, music videos excerpts and album cover animations.

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Listeners can share your Canvas to Instagram
Right from the Spotify app.

Read the complete Spotify Canvas Guidelines & Technical Specifications to get the best out of Spotify Canvas.

Instead of displaying a traditional image “of a somewhat boring static album cover art that probably still needs to find its own place and purpose in this digital era we live in since the 2000s and the emergence of Napster (laughs)”, these modern music visualizers not only offers a Full HD/4K 9:16 aspect ratio dedicated space in a determined segment of a song playback screen for seamless looped high resolution videos with up to 8 seconds long (and a minimum of 3) to be uploaded and indefinitely played in the background of each individual music track, but also revealed itself as the perfect place for dynamic content like album cover animations.