Difference between revisions of "YouTube Video Tracking"

Revision as of 17:26, 19 August 2013

Tracking YouTube videos is now handled seamlessly with an add-on library from ConversionRuler.

Requirements

Tracking YouTube Videos requires the following:

Your site must use the jQuery library on the pages in question
ConversionRuler currently supports tracking of iframe YouTube videos only (this is the modern version)
To track old-style YouTube videos, employ the technique for tracking Flash

How to implement

[[Install_the_tracking_snippet|Install ConversionRuler Tracking] normally on your site.

If jQuery is already being used, add the following script after jQuery is loaded:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.conversionruler.com/bin/youtube.js"></script>

Edit your sites actions to add the following actions:

* "play" - When a video is played by the user
* "pause" - When a video is paused by the user
* "seek" - When a video is seeked by the user
* "end" -> When a video reaches the end

YouTube videos will now be tracked using the named actions as described below

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 # [[Install_the_tracking_snippet|Install ConversionRuler Tracking] normally on your site.
-# If [[jQuery]] is already being used, add the following script after jQuery is loaded:
+# If [[jQuery]] is already being used, add the following script after jQuery is loaded: <pre><nowiki><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.conversionruler.com/bin/youtube.js"></script></nowiki></pre>
- <nowiki><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.conversionruler.com/bin/youtube.js"></script></nowiki>
 # Edit your sites actions to add the following actions:
   * "play" - When a video is played by the user