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Advertising
Music Streaming's approach to advertising starts from one fixed rule: ads never touch the now-playing surface.
Where ads can appear
If and when Music Streaming shows advertising, it will only ever appear on platform-owned display surfaces — places Music Streaming itself designs and controls. It will not be inserted into audio playback, and it will not appear on or interrupt the now-playing screen.
Why
Music Streaming never hosts the audio it plays — every track comes from an external provider's own clip or a link out to the provider's app. Audio advertising would mean inserting a Music Streaming-owned ad into someone else's audio stream, which the platform's content model doesn't support and has no plan to build toward.