Description
This downloadable GTM Recipe lets you track embedded Vimeo, YouTube, or HTML5/self-hosted videos by setting up Google Analytics tags (both GA4 & Universal Analytics) in your existing GTM container.
You’ll get:
- A custom event listener that “listens” for events from embedded video players
- Preconfigured Google Analytics 4 event tag
- Event Name: video_{{Video Status}}
- Event Parameters
- video_current_time
- video_duration
- video_percent
- video_provider
- video_title
- video_url
- Preconfigured Universal Analytics event tag
- Event Category: Video
- Event Action: {{Video Status}}
- Event Label: {{YouTube|Vimeo|HTML5}}: {{Video Title}}
- A universal trigger that works for both UA and GA4 tags
Benefits:
- Save money. Our recipes are less expensive than most web developers will charge you.
- Save time. Simply download this .json file and import it into Google Tag Manager instead of waiting for a developer to hardcode events.
- Tried & True: All our recipes are created out of necessity for our website or our clients so you know they work.
- Compatible. We use standardized event names that work with all of our Video Tracking GTM Recipes as well as the YouTube video events that Google Analytics 4 tries to automatically fire. Additionally, whereas the automatic YouTube video tracking from GA4’s enhanced measurement will not track pause events, our YouTube recipe does track pause events to bring it in line with our other Vimeo & HTML5 variations.
- Reassurance. In some cases, such as lazyloaded videos, GA4 won’t automatically track YouTube videos. In this case, you can use our YouTube video tracking recipe to properly fire YouTube event tags when GA4’s enhanced event measurement doesn’t work.
Check out our “How To Track Videos In Google Analytics Using GTM” blog post for more information about this GTM recipe.
Important: Please note that all downloadable GTM Recipe products are meant for one (1) GTM container so they can only be downloaded once per purchase. If you need to use this on more than one website, please purchase multiple items. All purchases are final and non-refundable. While we’ve tried our best to make it easily transferable, we cannot guarantee that it will work for your website because every website is different. For custom tracking assistance, contact us here.
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