Important: This feature requires an eligible Google Workspace subscription through your work or school. If you can’t find this feature, contact your administrator.
A watermark is a subtle text overlay that’s applied to your video feed and presentations when you’re in a meeting. It displays the meeting's meet code and the email address of the viewer. You can use a watermark to:
- Protect the confidentiality of the visual content you share in a meeting.
- Help trace unauthorized copies of video and screen shares.
Please note that this doesn’t prevent the removal of the watermark by a user who has a program to edit images.
To enable watermarks, make sure that participants:
- Are signed in to a Google Account
- Use either the latest version of the mobile app or an updated Chromium browser
Otherwise, you get a prompt to remove them from the meeting once you enable the watermark. If a participant uses an unsupported browser, they can’t view incoming video and presentations.
You can’t use watermarks if you:
- Record a meeting.
- Live stream a meeting.
If you start to record or live stream during a meeting, it disables the watermark.
Learn what you need to apply watermarks
Important: Watermarks aren't supported in Firefox. When watermarks are enabled on unsupported browsers, the participant can no longer view incoming video or presentations.
Add a watermark
- In a meeting, at the bottom right, click Host controls
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- If you join from a conference room, you can only enable watermarks through Companion mode. Learn more about Companion mode in Google Meet.
- Turn on Add a watermark.
- If a participant doesn't meet the technical requirements, you're prompted that “People will be removed from this call.”
- You can select Cancel or Add the watermark anyway.
- If a participant doesn't meet the technical requirements, you're prompted that “People will be removed from this call.”