Vimeo Tracking Plugin For Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager
We’re rolling out a new plugin to complement our suite of Google Tag Manager recipes. The latest addition targets the popular video-sharing platform Vimeo. Just like our YouTube Tracking plugin, this library allows you to track Play, Pause, and Watch to End events, as well as track when the user has viewed past specific percentages of the video.
You can find our complete documentation (and a handy link to download a container file with the plugin) here. If you’ve never imported a container into Google Tag Manager before, check out this handy guide from my colleague Jim Gianoglio.
The default settings will track Play, Pause, and Watch to End events, as well as when the user views past the 10%, 25%, 50%, 75%, 90%, and 100% marks. Currently, it has been tested and shown to work in the following browsers:
- IE10+
- Edge 14
- Chrome 57
- Firefox 52
- Opera 44
- Safari 10
- Yandex 14
To see our plugin in action, play the video below. Events will appear in the textbox beneath as they are tracked.
Here’s the HTML of the above:
For our demo, a Custom HTML tag is fired in GTM to append the event to the textarea on this page. It is triggered by vimeoTrack events.
If you’re curious about Vimeo’s Player API, check out their documentation. Vimeo’s Player API wasn’t a huge chore to work with, but be aware that video metadata is loaded asynchronously after the video itself. To run event bindings after video metadata is loaded, make use of the ‘Player.getVideoTitle()’ method. This method returns a ‘Promise’-like object, which you can then call ‘.then(callback)’ on and run the rest of your bindings with the required data in hand.
Ready to get started? Head over to our recipe page and download the plugin. If you’d like to contribute or discover a bug, submit a pull request on our GitHub repository.
