Insider Spotify Codes bring Snapchat-like QR codes to music streaming May 5, 2017 - 9:19 pm Newly announced Spotify Codes could have a profound impact on the way all of us share music.

Spotify is getting in on QR codes with a new way to share music. The streaming service recently added "Spotify Codes" into its app. The feature (thanks Moshe Isaacian for sharing with us) is ...

Also, companies are always upgrading what they're doing - who knows if they'll switch to a QR code like everybody else. Lapides: I'm not sure if these will be scannable 10 to 20 years from now.

Then again, you don't see QR codes littering the advertising of 2017, and that's not just because they were unsightly. It's unclear why Spotify thinks its own codes will fare better.

QR codes are dead, an internet marketing strategist wrote in AdAge in 2013. The murderer: "easier-to-use apps." And yet, four years later, that isn't the case.

The QR-style code might be Spotify’s way to reintroducing a social way to share music on the app, considering it killed its inbox feature in February.

Spotify is launching a new feature called “Spotify Codes” that will generate a unique, QR-like code for anything on Spotify, which the company hopes will be used for sharing and discovery of ...

Facebook, Spotify, Kik, Twitter and Snapchat have all been quietly pushing QR codes in the hopes that people (and Marketers) will begin to see the utility in these handy little things.

Dive Insight: Spotify Codes create a visual shorthand that can be shown in promotional advertising for musical artists or any brand that wants to feature a musical playlist associated with its product ...

Pinterest certainly isn't the first company to make its own variation of the humble QR code. Spotify, for example, introduced its own variant in the relatively recent past.