Google analytics for video or flash tracking ?

Discussion in 'Google Analytics' started by Charismatic_Verma, Aug 5, 2010.

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    Hello guys,

    It is always been a pleasure to sort out problems with the help of tonnes of experts present in this forum. So here I am with my question -

    How can we exactly track flash video or a streaming video with google analytics ? So that we could fetch an idea how long the videos was being played, where paused, or when left etc.

    Just like normal webpage tracking, can we track videos as well ?


    Looking for helpful replies.

    Thanks in advance.
     
    Charismatic_Verma, Aug 5, 2010 IP
  2. Charismatic_Verma

    Charismatic_Verma Member

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    What's that, whether I have chosen a wrong section for posting or someone really don't know about the issue ? What's goin on ?
     
    Charismatic_Verma, Aug 9, 2010 IP
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    magda Notable Member

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    'whats' going on' was a weekend.

    You do it with event tracking, and assign specific events or actions to be tracked - such as starting the video, stopping the video etc.
    the basic event tracking of 'watching a video' is comparatively simple - you can add more detail in the code if you feel you need it.

    Basics here -
    http://www.google.com/support/conversionuniversity/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=140468

    More detail here - http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/eventTrackerGuide.html#Categories
     
    magda, Aug 9, 2010 IP