Sharing on Pandora

Pandora will share to your Pandora profile by default. If your profile is public, Pandora will also share to your followers' music feeds. Your Pandora Profile will need to be public if you want to share a playlist with someone else.

Learn how manage the privacy settings on your profile.

If you'd like to share a station or track through Twitter or email, choose the device you are using below:

How do shared stations work?
How do I share a playlist?
How to share other content from an iOS or Android Device
How to share a station from the web
How to share content on Instagram
How to receive content from Instagram
How to share a station on Snapchat
How to receive a Snapchat share

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How do shared stations work?

Shared stations are stations created by other Pandora listeners.

If you share a station with someone else, all of your Thumbs feedback and updates for that station will carry over to that person's account.

If the person you shared the station with gives a Thumbs Up or Down to a song, they'll be asked whether they want to make this station their own. If they say yes, then the station will no longer be a shared station, and they will be able to customize the copied station from their account. However, your original station will not be modified as a result.

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How do I share a playlist? 

While you can share a playlist with another listener regardless of their subscription level, you'll need to make sure that your Pandora profile is set to be Public first. 

To share a playlist from a mobile device:

From My Collection, find the playlist you'd like to share or sort your collection by Playlists. Next, tap the share icon next to the Play button and select your preferred sharing medium.

To share a playlist from our website:

You can use the following steps to share your curated and auto-generated playlists with friends on Premium.

From My Collection tap the name of the playlist you wish to share. Then, from your playlist's backstage page, tap the share icon next to the Play button.  

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How to share other content from an iOS or Android Device

The easiest way share a song, station, album, artist or podcast is to do a search (even if it's already a part of your collection).

Tap the name of the song/station/album/artist/podcast and tap Share.

If you're sharing an artist, the share icon can be found in the upper right hand corner of the backstage page. 

From here, you'll be able to share your content either through a text message, through social media, or via email.

Note: What content you're able to share may depend on your subscription level. 

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How to share a station from the Web

From the Now Playing screen:

1. Hover your cursor over the album art.
2. Click the ellipses that appears underneath the Album art
3. Select Share located at the end of the menu
4. From there you can choose to share it on Facebook or Twitter and include a message. You can also copy the link if you'd like to share it through another medium.

From the Song/Artist Details Screen:

Click the Share button located to the right of the Play button at the top of the screen.

You can post to a connected Twitter account, or select Copy Link to share a direct link instead.

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How to share content on Instagram

If you want to share Pandora content on your Instagram Story, please make sure you're logged into your Instagram account and you have the Instagram app downloaded on your mobile device. Then, open Pandora and follow these steps:

1. Tap the name of the song, station, album, playlist or podcast you want to share (you can also share the content you're currently listening to from your Now Playing screen).
2. Tap Share, and select Instagram Stories. 

This will prompt Instagram to open on your phone and a sticker with the album art of the content you're sharing will appear in your Instagram Stories. There, you can add text, edit the sticker, and share it as a Story or direct message to one friend, a group of friends, or all your followers.

Remember: your friends don't need to be Pandora subscribers in order to listen to your shared content right away; if they use your Instagram Story to open Pandora they'll be prompted to watch a short advertisement, after which they'll receive Premium access and be able to listen to it on-demand.

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How to receive an Instagram share

To listen to Pandora content that has been shared by one of your friends over their Instagram Story, view the Story and tap Play on Pandora. 

When you do that, you'll be prompted to exit Instagram and open Pandora. If you haven't installed Pandora on your phone yet, you'll be directed to Pandora's download page.

Once on Pandora, what happens next will depend on your subscription level:

• Premium subscribers will be able to listen to the shared on demand content right away.
• Free listeners and Plus subscribers will be prompted to watch an advertisement, after which they'll receive Premium access and be able to listen to the track that their friend shared immediately. 
• Pandora users across all tiers of service can listen to stations right away.

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How to share a station on Snapchat

To share your currently playing song on Snapchat, make sure you have an up to date version of both Snapchat and Pandora on your phone, and then open Pandora.

1. Go to the Now Playing screen, and scroll through your listening history to whichever track you'd like to share.
2. Tap the caret (or small downward arrow) underneath the track, tap the share icon, and select Share on Snapchat.

This will prompt Snapchat to open on your phone with a unique song card for you to share. Keep in mind that you can still add text or stickers, or use any of the other snap editing tools to mark up your snap.

Your friends don't need to be subscribers in order to listen to your shared tracks right away; if they use your snap to open Pandora they'll be prompted to watch a short advertisement, after which they'll receive Premium access and be able to listen to it on-demand.

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How to receive a Snapchat share

To open a song shared by one of your friends over Snapchat, swipe up on the snap and tap on the attachment.

When you do that, you'll be prompted to open Pandora. If you haven't installed Pandora on your phone yet, you'll need to install it and then return to the snap to begin again.

Once you've followed that snap into Pandora, what happens next will depend on your subscription level:

• Premium subscribers will be able to listen to the track right away.
• Free listeners and Plus subscribers will be prompted to watch an advertisement, after which they'll receive Premium access and be able to listen to that track on-demand. Rest assured that you won't be charged at the end of your complimentary session.