# R-07 RQ-ads: Which real 2024 to 2026 ads from Spotify and the competitors our sources name (Egypt, MENA and global) show the hooks, beat shapes, palettes, type, cut rates, sound and endings of this category?
Runtime date: 2026-10-20 (system clock, Tue Oct 20 2026)
Status: partial: (1) no film was watched or heard (the host cannot play video and no download was made); fields come from official YouTube page titles, descriptions, thumbnails and the storyboard frames YouTube publishes (1 frame per 1 s or 2 s, about 160 x 90 px), and every "cuts per 10 s" and "sound" field reads "not watched"; (2) no YouTube Music ad and no Spotify Egypt or MENA film from 2024 to 2026 could be located (the Spotify Egypt 2025 Data Saver TVCs are known from trade press only); (3) the query budget was exceeded (17 queries in two rounds) because the first round returned no dated ad for three of the five brands; (4) three queries carried untraceable terms or went past one hop; they are flagged below and nothing from them is cited except facts confirmed on the official page itself.
Brief slots used: real_brand = Spotify (prompt); topic = music and audio streaming app (prompt); film_type = brand film (decision D-07); market = Egypt, MENA, global (decision D-05); platform = YouTube, Instagram, TikTok (decision D-06); language = Arabic, English (prompt)

## Queries
| ID | Query | Language | Status (run / dropped: reason) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q-A1 | Anghami campaign 2025 | English | run (sponsorships and 2022 campaigns; no 2025 consumer film) |
| Q-A2 | Apple Music campaign 2025 ad | English | run (only 2015 to 2016 ads returned; not used) |
| Q-A3 | YouTube Music campaign 2025 ad film | English | run (no dated ad found) |
| Q-A4 | Spotify Egypt ad campaign 2026 video | English | run (Egypt campaigns from 2020, 2022, 2025; no video links) |
| Q-A5 | إعلان أنغامي 2026 | Arabic | run (returned news of the singer Angham, a homonym; nothing used) |
| Q-A6 | Spotify Wrapped 2025 ad (filter: youtube.com) | English | run |
| Q-A7 | Spotify Egypt ad 2025 (filter: youtube.com) | English | run (tutorials only; nothing used) |
| Q-A8 | Anghami ad 2025 (filter: youtube.com) | English | run |
| Q-A9 | Amazon Music ad 2026 Antakshari | English | run (second hop) |
| Q-A10 | Amazon Music Hello India Love Amazon Music brand film (filter: youtube.com) | English | run, deviation: past one hop (see trace check) |
| Q-A11 | Spotify India campaign 2026 Anil Kapoor Nagarjuna playlists TV ad | English | run, deviation: untraceable terms; results showed the campaign dates from 2020; nothing used |
| Q-A12 | YouTube Music ad campaign 2026 | English | run (no ad found) |
| Q-A13 | Apple Music ad 2026 campaign | English | run (no ad found; the Apple Music ad below came from the channel feed) |
| Q-A14 | Spotify data saver Egypt ad (filter: youtube.com) | English | run (tutorials only) |
| Q-A15 | Spotify Arabic ad MENA (filter: youtube.com) | English | run (nothing usable) |
| Q-A16 | Spotify MENA campaign 2026 | English | run (a 2023 Egypt article, recorded as R-06 S-14) |
| Q-A17 | Anghami ad campaign Ramadan 2025 video | English | run, deviation: "Ramadan" untraceable; nothing used |

## Trace check
| Query | Term | Kind | Slot and source / chain |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q-A4, Q-A6, Q-A7, Q-A11, Q-A14 to Q-A16 | Spotify | slot | real_brand (prompt) |
| Q-A1, Q-A5, Q-A8, Q-A17 | Anghami / أنغامي | second hop | named in R-02 S-12 (Anghami's own FY2025 report) and R-02 S-13, both found by R-02 Q-A5 or Q-A11 |
| Q-A2, Q-A3, Q-A9, Q-A10, Q-A12, Q-A13 | Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music | second hop | named in R-02 S-04 (Spotify's FY2025 20-F competitor list), found by R-02 Q-A9 |
| Q-A6 | Wrapped | second hop | R-01 S-15 (Spotify newsroom, 2025 Wrapped campaign) |
| Q-A14 | data saver | second hop | R-02 S-17 (Campaign Middle East, Spotify Egypt Data Saver campaign) |
| Q-A9 | Antakshari | second hop (weak) | from the R-06 Q-C1 result snippet for impactonnet.com; that page returned HTTP 403 and was not opened, so the chain rests on a snippet. Facts used only from S-18, S-19, S-20 |
| Q-A10 | "Hello India Love Amazon Music" | over the one-hop limit | campaign title from the results of Q-A9, itself a second-hop query. Deviation; used only to reach S-20, whose official channel and title confirm it |
| Q-A11 | India, Anil Kapoor, Nagarjuna, playlists, TV | none / second hop | "India" and "TV" untraceable; the names come from the R-06 Q-C2 result snippet (medianews4u.com). Deviation; results showed a 2020 campaign; nothing used |
| Q-A17 | Ramadan | none | untraceable. Deviation; nothing used |
| Q-A4, Q-A7, Q-A14 | Egypt | slot | market (decision D-05) |
| Q-A15, Q-A16 | MENA | slot | market (decision D-05) |
| Q-A15 | Arabic | slot | language (prompt) |
| Q-A10 | brand film | slot | film_type (decision D-07) |
| Q-A1 to Q-A17 | 2025, 2026 | date | runtime year and the year before (system clock) |
| Q-A1 to Q-A17 | ad, campaign, video, film / إعلان | frame | fixed list (Arabic form in the brief's language) |

Channel reads (navigation, not queries; title, date, length and view count only): Spotify (author of S-02), Spotify India (author of S-04), Anghami (author of S-17, found by Q-A8), Amazon Music IN (S-20), and the official YouTube handles of the three competitors named in R-02 S-04: @AppleMusic, @youtubemusic, @amazonmusic. View counts below are as shown on 2026-10-20.

## Sources
| ID | Title | Publisher or channel | URL | Published | Accessed | How used (watched / read / thumbnail) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S-01 | Ad of the Day: Spotify Wrapped gets first TV spot featuring star-studded UK cast | The Drum | https://www.thedrum.com/news/ad-of-the-day-spotify-wrapped-s-first-tv-spot-features-central-cee-and-pinkpantheress | 2025-12-03 | 2026-10-20 | read |
| S-02 | Your Favourite Artists reveal Spotify 2025 Wrapped | YouTube, Spotify | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlxlsQVLw3E | 2025-12-03 | 2026-10-20 | thumbnail (storyboard every 2 s, chapter list) |
| S-03 | Spotify, Wrapped 2025, Nattamai, Wrapped Ah Paathu Sollu, Sarathkumar | YouTube, Spotify India | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR4eL9ih1dk | 2025-12-03 | 2026-10-20 | read (title, description, length only) |
| S-04 | What Your Top Song Says About You, Spotify Wrapped 2025, Emraan Hashmi and Raghav Juyal | YouTube, Spotify India | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSCyNXt-A1I | 2025-12-03 | 2026-10-20 | thumbnail (storyboard every 1 s) |
| S-05 | Mopping Made Fun, Spotify Chalao | YouTube, Spotify India | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-CfbBqfUzE | 2026-09-16 | 2026-10-20 | thumbnail (storyboard every 1 s) |
| S-06 | Laundry Made Fun, Spotify Chalaain | YouTube, Spotify India | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EvdSH8hGPQ | 2026-09-16 | 2026-10-20 | read (title, description, length only) |
| S-07 | It's time... Go get your Wrapped! | YouTube, Spotify | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkxCURFYbRM | 2025-12-03 | 2026-10-20 | thumbnail only |
| S-08 | There's just something in the air today, What's on your #SpotifyWrapped? | YouTube, Spotify | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TMw9n0xtgE | 2025-12-03 | 2026-10-20 | thumbnail (storyboard every 1 s) |
| S-09 | Spotify India, channel video feed | YouTube, Spotify India | https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCHeEQ-Qwli2C0KAEEICz3Ow | live feed | 2026-10-20 | read (titles and dates) |
| S-10 | Spotify highlights data challenges in Egypt in latest campaign | Campaign Middle East | https://campaignme.com/spotify-highlights-data-challenges-in-egypt-in-latest-campaign/ | 2025-06-30 | 2026-10-20 | read (TVCs not found) |
| S-11 | أنغامي، جوك له صوت، صوتك بطريقتك | YouTube, Anghami | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fSBXBKhTMA | 2025-11-06 | 2026-10-20 | thumbnail (storyboard every 1 s) |
| S-12 | أنغامي، كل احساس له صوت، صوتك بطريقتك | YouTube, Anghami | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3Yr3Tpp2dQ | 2025-11-07 | 2026-10-20 | thumbnail (storyboard every 1 s) |
| S-13 | أنغامي تشغلّك اللي يشبهك، صوتك بطريقتك | YouTube, Anghami | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv-ufux05Pw | 2025-11-13 | 2026-10-20 | thumbnail (storyboard every 1 s) |
| S-14 | الصوت اللي يكمّله على أنغامي، صوتك بطريقتك | YouTube, Anghami | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muiIqWC3B3Q | 2025-11-27 | 2026-10-20 | thumbnail (storyboard every 1 s) |
| S-15 | YT 16x9 Horizontal v2 | YouTube, Anghami | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3xSSd0WDm4 | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-20 | thumbnail (storyboard every 1 s) |
| S-16 | Anghami, channel video feed | YouTube, Anghami | https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCivlDDMQ3Ywf4Z0QIFf20mQ | live feed | 2026-10-20 | read (titles and dates) |
| S-17 | Anghami Latest TV Ad | YouTube, Anghami | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_2oPYV0CgA | 2014-03-30 | 2026-10-20 | read (title and date; used only to identify the official channel) |
| S-18 | Amazon Music launches first India brand film celebrating Antakshari tradition | MediaNews4U | https://www.medianews4u.com/amazon-music-launches-first-india-brand-film-celebrating-antakshari-tradition/ | 2026-08-05 | 2026-10-20 | read |
| S-19 | Amazon Music cues Sonu Nigam and Usha Uthup for a nostalgic game of Antakshari | Manifest Media | https://manifest-media.in/video/campaigns/060826/amazon-music-cues-sonu-nigam-and-usha-uthup-for-a-nostalgic-game-of-an.html | 2026-08-06 | 2026-10-20 | read (its embed points to video ID aCgqF-zutiY) |
| S-20 | Hello India. Love, Amazon Music. | YouTube, Amazon Music IN | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCgqF-zutiY | 2026-08-04 | 2026-10-20 | thumbnail (storyboard every 2 s) |
| S-21 | HEAD TRIP. | YouTube, Apple Music | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk9YpVUKGg0 | 2026-10-14 | 2026-10-20 | thumbnail (storyboard every 1 s) |
| S-22 | Apple Music, channel video feed | YouTube, Apple Music | https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCBv7HEHuVlNAELGi5XJd85Q | live feed | 2026-10-20 | read (titles and dates) |
| S-23 | YouTube Music, channel video feed | YouTube, YouTube Music | https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCStaiwu-FAgp_RC_tBiLh9A | live feed | 2026-10-20 | read (titles and dates) |
| S-24 | Nhar M3a Abduh | YouTube, Spotify | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N9yyJwS-CI | 2026-10-16 | 2026-10-20 | read (title, description, length only) |

## Observed

Ads studied (fields from thumbnails and storyboard frames unless a page is cited; "cuts per 10 s" and "sound" are never estimated):

| Ad | Brand, market, title, year, length | Hook (first 3 s, frames) | Beat shape | Palette and type behavior | Cuts per 10 s | Sound and voice | Ending | Source use |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AD-01 | Spotify, UK, "Your Favourite Artists reveal Spotify 2025 Wrapped", 2025, 166 s, 9.0 M views | London street, red double-decker bus, men in dark coats on the pavement (chapter "0:00 Bossman is Central Cee's Top Fan") | Ten artist vignettes by the page's chapter list (0:00 to 2:07), each a comic situation in which a listening statistic appears as an object in the world: a mat-like card "You're a top 0.001% fan", a poster "CAN'T RUSH GREATNESS 785M+ STREAMS", a green terminal with "STREAMS", an artist name in huge red type | Desaturated grey-teal exteriors, warm pub and home interiors, one green-lit room; red only in props (bus, hair). Type lives inside the set, not over it | not watched: storyboard every 2 s only | not watched; the chapter list names "Pub sing-a-long with Kingfishr"; S-01 credits sound design (Greg Caron) and director KC Locke, production Curly Media | Cream end card (last four storyboard frames at 2 s spacing, so roughly 6 to 8 s), black Spotify icon, "#SpotifyWrapped" | S-02 thumbnail, S-01 read |
| AD-02 | Spotify, India (Hindi), "What Your Top Song Says About You", 2025, 96 s, 59.3 M views | Two actors in a dim red-walled lounge with practical lamps; white Spotify icon bug top right | One long two-hander dialogue scene (about 0 to 68 s), a phone showing a Wrapped card (about 69 s), cut to a blue-lit stage performance with a lower-left white super "[song] was streamed ... times in 2025", cream cards "WHAT'S ON YOUR WRAPPED?" and the "Wrapped 2025" lockup, back to the stage | Warm red and brown, then cool blue and violet; thumbnail carries bold green uppercase "WHAT'S ON YOUR WRAPPED?" under the green full logo | not watched: storyboard every 1 s only | not watched; description: "Guess there's no need to sing when your Top Song says it all.." | Cream end card, icon and "#SpotifyWrapped", then a return to the performance | S-04 thumbnail |
| AD-03 | Spotify, India (Tamil), "Nattamai, Wrapped Ah Paathu Sollu", 2025, 96 s, 16.2 M views | not seen (page text only) | Same Wrapped idea, recast with a different star for another language market | not seen | not watched: not opened visually | not watched; description: "There's only one theerpu that counts and it's what's on your Spotify Wrapped." | "Check your 2025 Wrapped here: spotify.com/wrapped" (description) | S-03 read |
| AD-04 | Spotify, global, "It's time... Go get your Wrapped!", 2025, 15 s | not seen (no usable storyboard) | not seen | Thumbnail: vertical picture in a 16:9 frame; "Wrapped" wordmark with red outlined "2025" numerals on a black and white checker band, the same lockup enlarged and cropped behind it | not watched: thumbnail only | not watched | not seen | S-07 thumbnail |
| AD-05 | Spotify, global, "There's just something in the air today", 2025, 26 s | An artist in a selfie-style vertical shot with yellow boxed caption "Happy Spotify Wrapped Day" | About seven different artists in front-camera shots, one line each, yellow caption boxes | Natural light, home and studio backgrounds; yellow label captions | not watched: storyboard every 1 s only | not watched | Cream ground, "Wrapped 2025" lockup with doodle flowers, then black icon and "#SpotifyWrapped" | S-08 thumbnail |
| AD-06 | Spotify, India, "Mopping Made Fun, Spotify Chalao", 2026, 20 s, 6.4 M views (sibling "Laundry Made Fun", 8.4 M views) | A young man at home in close-up, then on the floor wiping a rug | Chore, then the phone's Now Playing screen with white boxed captions, then the chore again with him moving to the music | Low-light home interiors, natural window light; white Spotify bug; white boxed captions | not watched: storyboard every 1 s only | not watched; description: "Press play on Spotify, turn up the vibe, and make cleaning a little more fun." | White Spotify full logo over the blurred room | S-05 thumbnail, S-06 and S-09 read |
| AD-07 | Anghami, MENA (Gulf Arabic), "جوك له صوت", 2025, 51 s, 5.3 M views | Feet on skates on a sunny park path, then riders with drawn swooshes; Anghami logo top right | Mood vignettes: skaters, a person with drawn purple wings, a woman before a mural of large Arabic lettering, a desert motorbike rider, a meditating figure under a starry purple sky with petals, a man in thobe and bisht walking toward camera at the head of a crowd of young men, two app screens | Bright daylight greens and blues; brand purple, green and pink as 2D doodles over footage; Arabic letters used as graffiti graphics. Vertical picture pillarboxed inside 16:9 | not watched: storyboard every 1 s only | not watched; description: "من هاللحظة، إنت ما تسمع وبس… إنت تسمع #صوتك_بطريقتك" | Logo ring animation on black, then the Anghami lockup with an Arabic line (not legible at storyboard size) | S-11 thumbnail |
| AD-08 | Anghami, MENA, "كل احساس له صوت", 2025, 31 s, 6.6 M views | Skaters on the park path, as AD-07 | A re-cut of AD-07 footage in a different order (skaters, mural, motorbike, meditation, crowd, phone, logo) | As AD-07 | not watched: storyboard every 1 s only | not watched; description: "كل احساس له صوت و مع #أنغامي تلاقي صوتك" | As AD-07 | S-12 thumbnail |
| AD-09 | Anghami, MENA, "أنغامي تشغلّك اللي يشبهك", 2025, 19 s, 9.1 M views | A young woman in headphones before a green, purple and pink Arabic-graffiti mural; heart icons pop around her | Character, then the app on a phone (dark UI), then Arabic text on black | Saturated mural colors in brand hues; icon stickers | not watched: storyboard every 1 s only | not watched | Logo ring animation, then lockup with Arabic line | S-13 thumbnail |
| AD-10 | Anghami, MENA, "الصوت اللي يكمّله على أنغامي", 2025, 20 s, 9.1 M views | A young man in a purple tee with a green strap, outdoors in a park | Character, phone with a red playlist cover reading "MOVE", graphic inserts (a yellow road sign with a headphones icon, a white 3D lattice, a green running pictogram), an Arabic super | Daylight greens with purple wardrobe; flat 2D sign graphics | not watched: storyboard every 1 s only | not watched; description: "وش ما كان جوّك… عندنا الصوت اللي يكمّله على #أنغامي" | Logo on black, then lockup | S-14 thumbnail |
| AD-11 | Anghami, telco bundle (English), "YT 16x9 Horizontal v2", 2026, 16 s, 67 k views | Performer stills in cards with the English super "WITH TOUCH & ALFA" and "Stream every song ad-free" | Feature pills one by one on teal and cyan grounds, then a price card | Teal, cyan, black; white sans pills; operator logos | not watched: storyboard every 1 s only | not watched | Price card with a monthly US dollar price (not fully legible) and logos | S-15 thumbnail |
| AD-12 | Amazon Music, India, "Hello India. Love, Amazon Music.", 2026, 149 s, 69.0 M views | A dim interior close-up (detail not legible at storyboard size) | Vignettes from everyday India: a classroom, a family singing on a night rooftop under string lights, a family car ride, a beach at dusk, friends in a train compartment, a house party, a bus; a phone with the app twice. Pages: "families gathering on terraces during power cuts to sing their favourite songs" (S-19) | Warm amber nights, dusk oranges, teal shadows; small Amazon Music bug top right; logo over picture near the end | not watched: storyboard every 2 s only | not watched; pages: "A medley of instantly recognisable songs spanning languages, generations and regions ties these moments together" (S-19); singers Sonu Nigam and Usha Uthup appear (S-18, S-19); agency Manja, director Neeraj Ghaywan (S-18) | Logo over the last scenes, an album-art grid on a phone, black card with logo and teal "Download Now" button; description line "If India loves it, we play it." | S-20 thumbnail, S-18 and S-19 read |
| AD-13 | Apple Music, global, "HEAD TRIP.", 2026, 41 s, 2.6 k views | Vertical: red streaks over black, then a crowd and a stage | Concert and festival montage: fire, pyrotechnics, a ferris wheel, silhouettes against flames, crowds, faces | Red, orange and black throughout; a small white caption low center on every frame (not legible) | not watched: storyboard every 1 s only | not watched; the description is the channel's generic text and does not say what is promoted | Apple Music logo over flames, then on black | S-21 thumbnail |
| AD-14 | Spotify, Egypt, Data Saver TVCs (two films), 2025 | not seen | Per the page (paraphrased): a listener gets a data usage warning and feels overwhelmed by the surroundings, turns on Data Saver, keeps listening, and calm returns; the page calls the films "two locally inspired TVCs" | not seen | not watched: films not found | not watched | not described; campaign message "keep your music, save your data" (R-01 S-20); credits VML Cairo (concept), Bigfoot (production), Publicis (media) | S-10 read |

Other observations:
- No ad from YouTube Music's official channel appears in its newest 15 uploads; all are artist programming ("YOUTUBE AVENUES", live sessions) dated 2026-08-27 to 2026-09-09. Apple Music's newest 15 uploads are mostly interviews and sessions; "HEAD TRIP." is the only promo-like upload. (S-22, S-23)
- Anghami's November 2025 campaign is one shoot cut four ways (51, 31, 20, 19 s) under the hashtags "#جوّك_له_صوت" and "#صوتك_بطريقتك"; its two shortest cuts have the most views (9.1 M each). Anghami's ad playlist otherwise holds 2012 to 2014 teasers. (S-11 to S-14, S-16, S-17)
- Spotify's main channel posts Arabic-region artist content: "Nhar M3a Abduh" (470 s, 2026-10-16), a day with a Moroccan artist, with Arabic auto-captions offered. It is artist content, not an ad. (S-24)
- Hero films in the sample run 96 to 166 s; every brand also posts 15 to 51 s cuts, mostly vertical. (S-02, S-04, S-05, S-07, S-08, S-11 to S-15, S-20, S-21)

## Inferred
- The strongest hooks in the sample open on a recognizable person or a body in motion inside a specific local place (London bus street, Indian lounge, Gulf park, Indian rooftop), not on product or type. Confidence: medium (AD-01, AD-02, AD-07, AD-12; storyboard frames).
- What works for large reach in Spotify's and Amazon's hero films is stars or singers plus local memory; the view counts that stand out belong to India films with film stars or famous singers (AD-02 59.3 M, AD-12 69.0 M). One reason may be paid media behind them; the pages do not say. Confidence: low (view counts only).
- Anghami's MENA 2025 campaign ties music to mood ("جوك"، "احساس") with local dress, places and Arabic lettering, but its graphics are decoration over live action rather than the structure. Confidence: medium (AD-07 to AD-10).
- Spotify keeps its strongest typographic identity (Wrapped 2025 lockup, cream ground, red numerals) for short spots and end cards, and keeps hero films live action. Confidence: medium (AD-01, AD-02, AD-04, AD-05).
- A film that cannot use stars, real artists' music or AI media (brief must_avoid) has no direct model in this sample, because every hero film here depends on one of those. Confidence: medium (all hero films in the table).
- Weak spots visible in the frames: the phone-with-app beat looks the same across brands (AD-02, AD-06, AD-07, AD-09, AD-10, AD-12), and end cards differ only by logo. Confidence: low to medium.

## Conventions found
- Category ads open on people in a local everyday place, move through vignettes where music lifts a mood or a statistic pays off a joke, show the app on a phone once, and close on a logo on black (Anghami, Amazon, Apple) or a cream Wrapped card (Spotify).

## Open spaces
- No ad in the sample uses the app's own interface, rebuilt as graphic material, as the film's main stage; the app appears only as a phone insert. (AD-02, AD-06, AD-07, AD-09, AD-10, AD-12)
- No Arabic-language ad in the sample lets Arabic typography carry the message as kinetic type; Arabic letters are mural decoration or short supers. (AD-07 to AD-10)
- No Spotify film aimed at Egypt or MENA from 2024 to 2026 is viewable on YouTube; Spotify's Egypt voice in 2025 exists only as trade-press description. (AD-14, Q-A4, Q-A7, Q-A14 to Q-A16)
- No ad in the sample tells its story through sound as a visible system (rhythm, waveform, frequency) without a cast; all rely on people or stars. Confidence low: storyboard evidence. (all AD rows)
- No brand in the sample ships the same picture in two languages; they recast (AD-02 and AD-03) or ship one language (AD-07 to AD-11).

## Stale or weak
- No film was watched or heard. All hook, beat, palette and type fields rest on storyboard frames at 1 frame per 1 s or 2 s and about 160 x 90 px; small text was often not legible; cut rates and sound are unknown.
- AD-03 and AD-14 were not seen at all (page text only); AD-04 is a thumbnail only.
- AD-13's purpose is unclear from its page; it may promote a playlist or a festival, which the page does not say.
- View counts are a snapshot on 2026-10-20 and do not separate paid from organic views.
- Q-A9, Q-A10, Q-A11 and Q-A17 carry chain or term deviations (see trace check); facts used from their results were confirmed on the official page (S-20) or not used.
- S-17 (2014) is far older than 24 months; used only to identify Anghami's official channel.
- Older Spotify Egypt work (2020, 2022, 2023) is recorded in R-06 (S-14 to S-16) as stale.
- Seen in results, not studied: "أنا السين" by Samsung Levant with Anghami (YouTube, 2025-12-17, 188 s, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR_I3867NJ8), a co-branded music video for a phone, not a streaming ad.