Under the Social header, you'll see the option to Share my listening activity on Spotify. Switch this option off, and your friends won't be able to see what you're listening to.

Spotify's ad technology is fuelled by user context, meaning we optimize when to serve a video ad and when to serve an audio ad based on how a listener is interacting with the app. We serve audio ads when listeners are streaming and not looking at their screens, and video ads when the Spotify app is in focus.

Friend Activity shows you what your friends are playing. To show or hide Friend Activity: Click your profile picture at the top, and select Settings. Under Display, switch See what your friends are playing on , or off .

If users want to check if their friends have listened to a playlist, the easiest workaround is by going to Friend Activity and checking what they've listened to. If a series of tracks were all part of that particular playlist, they might have listened to it. However, this isn't a guarantee.

When you listen to a playlist that is not public, the data that shows in your Friend Activity is: song title, artist, album the song is on. If you want to find more details on Friend Activity, make sure to take a look at this Support Article. You can also turn on Private listening to hide your activity temporarily.

How to start a private session on Spotify (Android and iOS)

1. Open the Spotify mobile app.
2. Select the gear-shaped icon in the upper-right corner of the app to go to Settings.
3. Scroll down until you see the Privacy and Social section.
4. Toggle on Private session.

Streams represent the frequency of your song plays, while monthly listeners are the unique individuals who tune into your music within a 28-day cycle. These metrics not only affect your income but also determine your ranking on Spotify charts and your overall visibility.

Spotify Streams is how many times your track is played whereas, Spotify Listeners are how many different persons are playing your music. Spotify Streams are great as they increase the statistics and generate royalties for you whereas the amount of Spotify Listeners helps to measure the artist's popularity.

Here's the small differences: Friend: you must approve their request to follow you/see your activity. You also get cool badges the more friends you make. If you accept their friend request, they automatically follow you and you follow them.

Although it's possible that, just like Apple Music, Spotify Wrapped only counts online streams of songs and doesn't track offline streams of songs. In other words, a portion of your listening habits could be missing. That being said, for the most part, your results should be pretty accurate.

No, Spotify does not notify who viewed your profile, and even if you follow their playlists it will be completely anonymous. Only if you follow their profile will they be aware that you were looking at it . How can I stop a specific person from seeing my activity on Spotify? What is the Spotify app?

Private playlists remain private, until you share the link. Once this has happened anyone with the link has access, which means also anyone can get the data from Spotify's API.