Getting started: Audience targeting
Your audience is listening.
Here's what you can do with audience targeting
Tell your brand story
Be a part of the listening experience. Spotify’s logged-in audience enables brands to identify users across their devices, within different moments and contexts throughout their day, to tell an effective story that will resonate with listeners.
Deliver a message that resonates
Tailor your messaging to pique listener interest. Historical listening behaviors give you insight into listener interests over time, enabling you to reach the right listener with the right message.
Be present in the moment
Deliver messaging that is relevant to the listener experience. Use real-time targeting to deliver a seamless ad experience and engage with users in specific moments throughout their day.
Explore our capabilities
If you’re advertising through Ad Studio, check out our Targeting on Ad Studio page in our Help Center.
If you’re buying directly with a Spotify ads specialist, below is our suite of solutions to help you reach key groups of audiences, delivering the right message to the right people at the right time.
Note: Targeting capabilities vary by market and channel.
Demographics
Let's start with the basics. Through core demographics, you can reach your audience based on who they are.
- Age
- Gender
- Location
Device and connectivity
We know you know it, but it's worth repeating: Understanding your audience's context is crucial. That's why we give you better options for reaching them compared to other media, no matter how they stay connected.
- Automotive
- Connected Home
- Daypart
- Platform
- OS/Mobile Carrier/Device
Listening behaviors
You can learn a lot about someone by what they listen to. Go beyond demographics by reaching your audience through advanced analytics, like listening behaviors, that offer a unique glimpse into their interests.
- Genre
- Sub-genre
- Playlist Category
- Podcast Category
Predicted interests
Want to take your audience targeting one step further? Leveraging Spotify's Streaming Intelligence, we can help you reach users based on what we predict they're interested in.
- Lookalike Targeting
Off-platform behaviors
Even though we’re ranked #1 for time spent on mobile apps,¹ we recognize listeners have lives beyond Spotify. Reach users based on how they’re behaving off our platform.
- Custom Audience Match
- 3rd Party Interest Targeting
- Brand Intimacy Study 2020, MBLM
Past interactions
You don’t need a degree in behavioral economics to know that the best predictor of future behavior is often what you do in the past. Reach your target audience based on how they’ve historically interacted with digital ads on Spotify.
- Brand Exposure
- Sequential Messaging
- Real-time Retargeting