Studio Users are reporting Ads with Youtube videos - again

AEstevill

Have any other school districts that purchase Canvas Studio heard of any users seeing Youtube Ads again when they add a Youtube video to Studio?

The last time we had this issue - Admins and Canvas support could not replicate the issue.  But the teachers sent us footage of the issue in action.

The  notes below were last updated in September 2025.

https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Resource-Documents/YouTube-Player-for-Education-FAQs/ta-p/651366

dbrace

Hi @AEstevill,

Have your users:

1. added the YouTube videos to their Canvas Studio library as documented in the  How do I add media from YouTube and Vimeo in my Studio account? - Instructure Community - 487670  support article and then added the library item to something (such as a Canvas page) as documented in the  How do I use Canvas Studio through the Rich Content Editor in Canvas? - Instructure Community - 1714  support article
2. migrated previously embedded YouTube videos by using the YouTube to Canvas Studio migration tool as documented in the  How do I migrate embedded YouTube videos in Canvas to Studio content for distraction-free viewing? - Instructure Community - 651195 support article
3. added the YouTube videos by creating a link as documented in the  How do I create hyperlinks to external URLs in the Rich Content Editor? - Instructure Community - 618224  support article
4. added the YouTube videos by using the YouTube tool that is in the RCE as documented in the  How do I link to or embed a YouTube video in the Rich Content Editor? - Instructure Community - 618239 support article

If your users are using either "A" or "B", there should not be any problems.

If your users are using either "C" or "D", the YouTube videos will/could have ads from YouTube.

-Doug