This video from advanced google analytics in the analytics academy provides an overview for how event tracking works in google analytics. to learn how to set up event tracking, visit the online. The category we are using on this blog page is “videos”, so when i open up google analytics and navigate to behavior >> events >> top events, here is what i see. click on the videos category to drill down.. See the details for setting up the google analytics plugin on the flowplayer site for information configuring event tracking for your videos. html5 video although this is possible, it involves customizing a javascript file..
Documentation used: youtube iframe player api and the event tracking section of analytics for web. these will be useful if you want to do different / more advanced tracking than i include below. these will be useful if you want to do different / more advanced tracking than i include below.. Google analytics has advanced video tracking capabilities that even the biggest media companies can leverage, however, almost no one knows this. there are limited resources on video-centric solutions. worse, almost all current implementations are outdated and do not take advantage of core features like custom metrics and calculated metrics.. Description. automatically tracks interactions with embedded youtube videos on your site. this recipe will fire events to google analytics when users play, pause, watch to end, and view 10, 25, 50, 75, and 90% of the video..
