Spotify incident

Podcast videos not playing on Web Player

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Spotify experienced a major incident on March 16, 2026 affecting Service, lasting 7d. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Mar 16, 2026, 11:07 AM UTC
Resolved
Mar 23, 2026, 11:07 AM UTC
Duration
7d
Detected by Pingoru
Mar 16, 2026, 11:07 AM UTC

Affected components

Service

Update timeline

  1. investigating Mar 16, 2026, 11:07 AM UTC

    We're seeing reports that users are unable to watch podcast videos when using the Web Player https://open.spotify.com/ - episodes can be played as audio-only.

  2. resolved Mar 23, 2026, 11:07 AM UTC

    Status changed to: Fixed