Spotify Courses: Course Settings

Thinkific automatically validates your course content and required course settings to ensure compliance with all Spotify requirements. The course validation process will generate a list of action items that require your attention before submitting your course to Spotify.

Learn more about course validations and how to troubleshoot common validation errors.

Utilize the course details section to provide additional information about your course and help students discover your course on Spotify.

Required Fields:

Course Name
The course name is auto-populated from your Thinkific course name. Update the course name to reflect your course content if there were significant changes made.

Short Description
The short description is auto-populated from your Thinkific course description and gives your audience a 1-2 sentence overview of your course.

Course Overview
The course overview offers detailed information about the course. It covers key aspects such as course instructor information, anticipated learning outcomes, the course’s target audience, and other essential details that provide learners with a clear understanding of what to expect. We suggest formatting and styling your copy for readability.

Course Price
Spotify Courses is exclusive to Spotify subscribers in the UK and will require your courses to be priced in GBP. Spotify will handle the VAT, adding 20% to your price. We suggest pricing your courses between 15-100 GBP to strike a balance between affordability for a wide range of learners and profitability for you.

Take a look at our Course Pricing Guidelines for more pricing recommendations and market insights.

Course Category
Select the category that best fits your course. Your course will be discoverable under this category on Spotify.

Cover Art
Upload a course image to captivate potential learners and provide them with a glimpse of what your course entails.

File format: png, jpeg, tiff, non-animated gif
Max Dimensions: 10000x10000px (1:1 ratio)
Max Size: 10MB

Refer to Spotify's Content Guideline for best practices for optimizing your images.

Course Trailer
Engage with potential learners by adding a 60-second trailer to your course. A trailer helps capture the interest of prospective learners while visually communicating the value of your content and establishing your brand identity.

Refer to Spotify's Content Guideline for best practices for creating trailers.

Optional Fields:

Course Downloads

Include downloadable files to supplement your student’s learning. Any downloadable file added in this area will only be available to the Spotify learner after the course has been paid for. You could also add downloadable files to lessons within your course. If you add downloadable files within the first two lessons in your course, Spotify users will have access to your resources before hitting the paywall. 

Spotify operates on a Freemium business model that offers a basic, limited, ad-supported service for free and an unlimited premium service for a subscription fee. Upon joining this pilot program, you have committed to providing a minimum of 2 free lessons per course.

Spotify is exploring ways to optimize sales for Creators by experimenting with competitive pricing strategies. You can opt into this experiment to allow Spotify to enhance your sales optimization by offering up to 50% of your course content for free.

Once you have completed configuring your course details and met all course validation requirements, you will be able to submit your course for review.

If you are submitting a course for the first time, make sure your Spotify profile is completed before you submit your course for review. You will not be able to edit your profile or course once you’ve submitted your course.