Collaborative playlists are a lot like Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that virtually anyone can edit. ... Spotify has put one measure in place to help restrict a free-for-all collaboration by random strangers — it doesn't let you publish collaborative playlists to your public profile.

Are collaborative playlists private?

Keep Your Audience Defined. One drawback of this feature is that public collaborative playlists will allow anyone on Spotify the ability to add songs to it. ... A playlist can be made private by right clicking the playlist title or using the ellipses button and selecting "Make Secret."

Can people see you listening to a collaborative playlist?

If you are in public mode and you are listening to "Private" playlist, your friends/followers will see artist's name, song name and the album name of that song, they won't see the playlist, though. If you've enabled Private listening, your listening activity will not be shared with anyone.