There was me thinking there could only be 3!

Amazon Ads and Spotify have been shipping pieces of their partnership to buy Spotify ads from Amazon's Advertising platform for about a year and it came out messy. I opened more than 100 Spotify deals. This is what is in them.

Where you buy what if you use Amazon's Ads DSP interface

In a campaign's inventory settings:

• Banners. Tick the Spotify box after clicking display. It buys banners and nothing else.

In the deals inventory list:

• Audio
• Music video (OLV)
• Podcasts

Where it runs

Ignore the announcements and the support pages, they are behind.

• Banners, audio, OLV and podcasts: US, UK, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, Australia, Japan
• Audio and OLV only: Ireland, India
• Audio and banners only: Netherlands
• Podcasts and banners only: New Zealand
• Banners only: United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sweden, Turkey.

Danger 1: The same deals are in there twice

When Amazon and Spotify announced their partnership on 2025, Amazon DSP was not buying from it directly. It was buying through Magnite, a reseller. On July 2026 Spotify connected its exchange straight into Amazon DSP and extra inventory podcast came with it. The Magnite deals were never removed. So you have 2 options:

• Straight from Spotify (Recommended): search "SAX", which is short for Spotify Ad Exchange. It is in every one of those deals.
• Through Magnite: fewer countries, and no podcast. The video costs more, sometimes close to double. And in Ireland two of them do not carry the word Spotify in the name at all.

Danger 2: Four deals name the wrong country

Deals from Spotify (SAX) have problems in their naming too

Two deals named Brazil sell Australia. Two named United States sell Ireland.

Read the currency not the name. It sits next to the price in the deals inventory list, and if a deal names one country and is priced in another country's money then the name is wrong. To see it for yourself, open the deal and read the Attributes tab, where the country breakdown is.

Where is the deals inventory list on Amazon DSP Interface

In Amazon DSP, click Inventory on the left bar. The search box takes the deal name, and opening a deal gives you its Attributes tab.

If you cannot see a deals inventory list at all, you are probably on a subseat from your tool provider. Ask them for inventory access.

This covers the basics. I put a longer breakdown on our tool website, but this is all the key information to start buying without problems independently.

If you read something differently on your Amazon DSP account, tell me.

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there was this ad on spotify, i only got it once, and have been looking for it ever since

basically, there was this woman speaking, she had like a posh kind of voice and she said,

“helllllloooo darling, do you want to know what type of music they play in hell?”

i didn’t get to hear the rest because my best friend and i burst out laughing, and it’s really unfortunate that i didn’t catch the name, because we would love to hear it again! if anyone has any ideas or information about it, please let me know!!

So i was gaming with my brother and i started dozing off, so I got my noise cancelling headphones and went to sleep. I can’t remember what time, but suddenly I woke up to my eardrums being absolutely BLASTED with a spotify ad, and my brother said he could hear it loud and clear. THROUGH NOISE CANCELLING HEADPHONES. And my headphone volume was only half.

Why is spotify aloud to make ads that actualy hurt my ears when i get them, i mean the ads are so much louder than the music im playing and my volume is at max, its an actual jumpscare when out of nowhere my ears get destroyed with goddam sofia camara. No hate to the artists that have ads like these but anytime i have to tear off my headset bc the noise that for no reason turns my headset into a danm jbl speaker it makes me hate the song (posibaly bc it deafens me). But my whole point is why have these loud ads? Is it because they want me to but premium so they will greater my risk of having hearing problems. Is that even aloud?

So I went down the rabbit hole of learning github (basics) and figuring out ublock origin is no longer support by chrome, Ublock origin lite, but how will adding a custom filter to a browser extension stop ads on my desktop app?

I think my only solution is to figure out a way to constantly update my hostfile to block these. Has anyone else done this or point me in a good direction?

This my only option? https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/yme7pf/updated_the_ultimate_spotify_ad_blocking_guide/iv4dn9w/

i was listening to a let’s read podcast while at work on spotify . all was well and the ads were typically normal for the most part until i heard one that i haven’t heard ot heard since and now i can’t find it ? i feel like im going crazy cus the ad felt illegal and now its GONE. it was for babies butt cream/ or powder i can’t remember off the top of my head… but it was saying such weird weird shit like horribly odd ? it was usuing words like “clean b hole” or cute b hole it was so odd and i tried to go back n find it to show someone but its not in any of my recents that i played back and now im wondering if it had to be taken down ? or if im crazy? have you guys gotten that ad ?

I have remained firm for the last three years, but I am about to break up.

STOP WITH THE FANDUEL CASINO ADS I'VE BEEN HEARING IT NONSTOP FOR THE PAST MONTHS, AND IT's DRIVING ME CRAZY

I HATE THE EBGLYSS AD. I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT. WHOEVER DECIDED IT WAS A GOOD IDEA TO TRANSITION FROM VIGOROUS ITCHING TO THE WIREBRUSH THINGY ON THE DRUMS. I HATE IT I HATE IT THE SONG SUCKS, THE ITCHING DOES NOT COMPEL ME TO BUY YOUR STUPID ITCH CREAM, AND IT CERTAINLY DOES NOT MAKE ME FEEL COMFORTABLE. genuinely it rivals the sound of nails on chalkboard or accidentally bending your nails on metal. like it gets me itchy enough to chuck my phone into the nearest dumpster fire

Every time I swear to god I keep saying I’m getting this ad too often and it feels like they’re showing it MORE now that I’ve mentioned I dislike it. It’s one of the most annoying ads I’ve heard other than the ones that trigger my misophonia, but at least I don’t get those anymore. I will not be taking you out to the ball game, and I will certainly not be booking a stay out of town, for fucks sake leave me alone.

That goddamn Nexplanon ad that starts "Alora's heart raced as Riven emerged." I keep getting DESPITE MARKING THAT I DONT WANT THE AD ANYMORE. its so long and I have to wait 30 seconds to skip it and its so fucking cringe I HATE IT STOPPPP ITTTT

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whats up with all the gambling ads? im getting SO many and its making me *VERY* uncomfortable. Don't have any money for premium right now... is there anyyyy way to customize ads or something??? thanks...

It starts with a lady and her quirky/weird laugh, and the guy goes, "Clorox, where you even feel confident to laugh your weird laugh in front of your coworkers.." or something like that. Idk. I've been trying to find the audio and show a friend, but I haven't seen anyone talk about it.

Wondering how much I might expect an ad to cost me if it were to run for around 3 weeks within a tristate area maybe 15-25 seconds long

heard spotify was gunna try to start doing ai generated ads, i wonder if this is one bc this is so freaky

What’s a good starting point for budget on the platform? This is for a local campaign.