Get started with Player for Education

If you create educational videos or Shorts, our educational partners, like schools and teachers, may choose to embed your content in their learning materials. When educational partners choose to embed your content or watch your already embedded content, they may be using Player for Education. Player for Education is an embedded player that improves the way YouTube shows videos in educational tools.

Get paid for educational content

Our educational partners pay to license the Player for Education from YouTube. The player provides additional privacy safeguards for students and gives them an experience that’s designed for learning. As part of this experience, the player doesn’t show ads. Even though there aren’t any ads, you can still earn money from the amount of time people watch your videos in the player.

Once you accept payment terms for the Player for Education, you can get paid for your videos played in the Player for Education, based on your proportional share of the monthly watch time in the player. These funds come out of the educational partner licensing fees.

Sign your payment terms

Before you can earn money through Player for Education, you’ll need to sign the payment terms. If there is demand for your educational content, you’ll get a contract to sign.

1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
2. Select the Earn tab.
3. Under More ways to earn, select Player for Education.
4. Select Get started and follow the on-screen instructions.

Contracts are sent to newly eligible creators on a monthly basis.

Once you accept the terms, they’ll apply to all channels that you’re associated with and you can start earning money from your Player for Education watch time.

Find your earnings

If you have earnings from Player for Education watch time, they’ll show up in, and get paid to you through, AdSense. You can also check them in YouTube Analytics. Earnings from Player for Education will show up once a month.

Check your performance

If you want to see how your Player for Education content is performing, including views and watch time, you can check in Google Analytics.

1. Sign in to YouTube Studio on your computer.
2. From the left menu, select Analytics.
3. Under a report, click ADVANCED MODE or SEE MORE.
4. Filter by Player type for Player for Education.