Idea Exchange Guidelines: How can I submit an idea? What happens next?

[Elena]

This is part of a series of articles outlining how the Idea Exchange works:

1. Idea Exchange Guidelines: What do I need to know before submitting?
2. Idea Exchange Guidelines: How can I submit an idea? What happens next?
3. Idea Exchange Guidelines: Why was my idea closed?
4. Idea Exchange Guidelines: How does my feedback reach Spotify?

How do I submit my idea?

First make sure you’ve searched for existing ideas and if you can’t find anything in the Idea Exchange, you can go ahead and submit your idea! 

Enter a subject and hit the green arrow to have a final look for similar ideas that have already been posted. If none of them match your suggestion, just scroll down the list, to the bottom of the page, and click on ‘Tell us about your idea’.

How do I write an idea?

Choose a title that describes your idea in a simple way. You can explain your idea in more detail in the main body.

Spoiler

In order to post an idea on the Community you need to simply enter a subject and fill in the body. You can add tags if you like.

> Tip: Don’t forget that you will have to convince your fellow users that yours is a good idea worth voting for. With this in mind, here’s an example of an idea that gets it right.

What's next?

Once you’ve posted your idea, it will appear in Idea Submissions and will be marked as a “Live Idea”’. A Moderator or a Community Star will then take a look at it and make sure that it adheres to our Idea Exchange guidelines and if it does your Idea will remain and hopefully start to gather some votes.

If the idea does not follow the guidelines

It will be moved to Closed Ideas and marked as ‘Closed - Doesn't meet requirements’. You can create a new idea, as long as you make sure that you’ve made some edits according to all the points in the guidelines listed here.

And that’s it! You can learn more about how your feedback reaches Spotify here.