Spotify rolls out video for all podcasts
Hunter Moranville
Spotify now allows you to upload videos for podcasts that are not hosted on its platform. We reported this in June last year; but the feature hasn’t been available to many creators until a partial roll-out last week: we’re now seeing it for some of our shows.
- Like YouTube video, it doesn’t use RSS – the video file is hosted on Spotify’s servers, so plays won’t appear on your own podcast host’s analytics (and things like DAI won’t work).
- Caution: Once you upload the video version, it seems that Spotify will never use your RSS audio – even if your listener doesn’t watch the video. In this episode we’ve uploaded the video version, and edited the opening jingle to add “this is the video audio”. In our tests, we don’t seem to be able to play it at all without hearing that (even when downloading as audio-only) – and that video is only on Spotify’s servers.