Custom Variables to track Vimeo plays on website with Google Analytics?
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Hello Everyone,
I'm trying to track how many times a Vimeo video is played on my site via GA.
Does any of you have any knowledge of how can this be achieved? I've read the documentation and came up with this:
After the iframe embed i insert this:
Of course the GA is loaded in the header.
Does not work, at least i cant see anything in analytics. I have set up the segment as per the attached image.
Thanks in advance!
Alex
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Hi,
I wrote a step by step instruction on how to do it using Sanders method. I made it as simple as I could. Find it here: http://www.serpstone.com/magazine/vimeo-video-tracking-in-google-analytics-using-tag-manager/
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Hey there,
Not sure if you ever got this resolved, but here are two sources that I found that may help:
https://github.com/CardinalPath/gas#_gastrackvimeo
http://sanderheilbron.github.io/vimeo.ga.js/
I'll try out one, and if that doesn't work, I'll try the other. Let me know if you have any success!
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How else can one embed a Vimeo movie?
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Do you absolutely have to use an iframe?
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Yes, but this assumes that you can actually make the Play button a link.
If you're embeding a Vimeo or Youtube video as an iframe you cannot touch/see the "play" button.
Any other ideas?
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This is what I read in the Google Event documentation.
The Event Tracking data model has the following components which map directly to__elements in the Analytics Reports interface:
- categories
- actions
- labels
- values
- implicit count
A simple example illustrates how you might use the Event Tracking method to record user interaction with a video Play link on your page. It assumes that
pageTracker
is the__name used for your tracking object._[Play](#)_
_In this scenario, the reports for Events would display Videos as the Category, __Play as the Action, and Baby's First Birthday as the Label. The rest of this document describes these components in detail. Bear in mind that when you implement Event Tracking,_you can use this data model as a guide, or you can simply use the
_trackEvent()
method to segment user interaction in any way that works for your data.
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