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# Collect viewer emails with a gate

> Share → Gate → Collect emails makes viewers enter their email before a video or playlist plays. Optionally verify emails with a code, then copy them or download a CSV.

An email gate asks viewers for their email address before the video plays; turn it on in **Share** → **Gate** → **Collect emails**. Use it to turn a shared video or playlist into a lead capture form: viewers enter their email once, then watch as normal, and you see every email in the share menu.

## Turn on an email gate for a video

1. Open your video in the editor and click **Share** in the top right.

2. Click the **Gate** tab.

3. Under **Gate this video**, choose **Collect emails**.

If the video's link access is not already **Anyone with the link**, Tella asks **Change link access?** because the gate only shows to people who can open the link. Click **Turn on gate** to switch link access and enable the gate in one step.

<Note>
  The **Gate** tab is available to the video's creator and editors. Workspace members and people you invited to the video never see the gate; only external viewers do.
</Note>

### Verify viewer emails

By default, viewers can enter any address and watch straight away. To make sure the emails you collect are real, turn on **Verify viewer emails**. Viewers then receive a six-digit code by email and must enter it (or open the link in the same email) before the video plays. Codes expire after 10 minutes, and viewers can request a new one or change their email from the gate.

## What viewers see

Instead of the player, viewers see a card with the video's thumbnail and title, an email field labelled **Enter your email to watch this video**, and a **Watch video** button (or **Send verification code** when verification is on). The card tells them their email is shared with the creator of the video.

The gate appears on the video page and in embeds. Once a viewer unlocks a video, it stays unlocked in that browser, so they will not be asked again if they come back later.

## See and download collected emails

Collected emails are listed in the **Gate** tab of the share menu, newest first, with how long ago each one was submitted.

* **Copy all** copies the emails as a comma-separated list.
* **Download CSV** downloads a spreadsheet with the email and the time it was collected.

Emails also appear in [video analytics](/docs/help/sharing/analytics): a gated viewer shows up by email address in the latest views instead of as an anonymous viewer.

Setting the gate back to **Off** stops asking new viewers for their email. Emails you already collected stay in the **Gate** tab.

## Gate a playlist

You can also gate a whole playlist so that one email unlocks every video in it.

1. Open the playlist and click **Share playlist**.

2. Click the **Gate** tab.

3. Under **Gate this playlist**, choose **Collect emails**, and optionally turn on **Verify viewer emails**.

The gate applies to the playlist page and every video inside it, including videos whose own link access is private. As with videos, the playlist's link access changes to **Anyone with the link** when you turn the gate on. Only the playlist's creator sees the **Gate** tab; managers can open **Share playlist** but cannot turn the gate on or off. See [Organize and share videos with playlists](/docs/help/tips/organize-and-share-videos-with-playlists) for playlist roles.

<Note>
  A playlist gate only asks signed-out viewers for their email. Anyone signed in to Tella, whether or not they are in your workspace, can open a gated public playlist without going through the gate. Video gates are stricter: they only let workspace members and people you invited through.
</Note>

<Tip>
  Use a playlist gate for a course or a resource library: viewers enter their email once on the playlist page and can then watch every video in it without being asked again.
</Tip>


## Related topics

- [Videos](/docs/mcp-tools/videos.md)
- [Viewer settings](/docs/help/sharing/viewer-settings.md)
- [Comments](/docs/help/sharing/comments.md)
- [Change your video's thumbnail](/docs/help/video-metadata/change-thumbnail.md)
- [Clips](/docs/mcp-tools/clips.md)


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