Make a Spotify Canvas from your song

Spotify Canvas requirements

From Spotify for Artists' Canvas guidelines and content policy (checked 28 October 2026):

• 3 to 8 seconds long
• Vertical 9:16, between 720 and 1080 pixels tall
• An MP4 or JPG file
• Spotify recommends footage without talking, singing or rapping, and no rapid cuts or intense flashing
• Consider leaving out the song and artist name — they already appear in the player; any text must relate to the track
• No URLs, ticket links, calls to follow, other brands or the Spotify logo
• Keep important details away from the edges, which some phones crop

Two details you will read elsewhere

Many guides add a file-size limit and say the Canvas must be silent. Neither appears on Spotify's official guideline page as of October 2026, so treat them as advice rather than rules — keeping the clip short and the file light does no harm.

Spotify's own figure for the effect is that a high-quality Canvas "increased streams by up to 120% and saves by up to 114%". That number is from 2019, during the beta, and it is a best case, not an average.

Why a lip-sync clip is the wrong Canvas

Clipbeat's chorus preview is a short clip of your singer lip-syncing the chorus. It is a good test of a music video, but it is exactly what Spotify advises against for Canvas: a person singing on screen. For Canvas, use a shot of the world of the song instead — a street at night, light through a window, an animated version of your artwork — with slow, continuous motion.

Making a loop feel seamless

A good Canvas hides where it starts again. Spotify describes three loop types: a continuous loop, a hard cut and a rebound that plays forward then back. Motion drifting in one direction — a slow push in, clouds crossing a sky — makes the continuous kind easiest. Avoid shots where something enters and leaves the frame, because the jump back to the first frame becomes obvious.

The player places the track title, artist name and controls over the video, so keep faces and details in the middle of the frame.

Making the shot with AI in Clipbeat

Describe the mood of the song and generate an image, or start from your own cover art. Then turn the still into a short moving shot. Each generation shows its credit cost before you run it.

• Photoreal image — 3 credits
• Consistent faces image — 5 credits (premium)
• Steady faces video shot — 15 credits

Getting a Canvas from your music video

If you order a full vertical music video — from $5 Standard, $19 Plus or $39 Premium, paid once — every lyric line already has its own scene. Pick a scene without a singer, delete the lyrics over it and export those few seconds as your Canvas. The rest of the video covers YouTube, Reels and TikTok.

What Clipbeat does and does not do

Clipbeat makes and exports the file. It does not publish to Spotify: Canvas is uploaded in Spotify for Artists on the web or the app, by the first main artist on the track or a main artist on the release, with Admin or Editor access. You can add a Canvas before the song is out.

Uploading your track costs nothing and gives you timed lyrics; after the chorus preview you get a lyric-matched storyboard, and a full AI video of the song starts at $5 one-time. Exports from the editor before any purchase are 720p with a small watermark, which would show on your Canvas; for a clean file, any credit pack (from $5, one-time) unlocks 1080p without the watermark.