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Tracking YouTube<\/a> videos in Google Tag Manager<\/a> is one of the more useful things you can do in terms of tracking. YouTube has a wonderful API<\/a> that you can tap into and convert the detected events into dataLayer<\/code> messages.<\/p>\n

There are some really good solutions out there for tracking YouTube videos in GTM:<\/p>\n

Both do a great job of tracking videos that have been loaded with the page. However, both have difficulties with tracking dynamically<\/strong> loaded videos. That means videos which are loaded lazily, or in pop-ups, or when some content link is clicked.<\/p>\n

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In this article, I\u2019m going to show how you can track dynamically loaded videos using Bounteous\u2019 solution with slight modifications. Bounteous is my favorite group of geeks in North America, and they bribed me with their awesome book just before Christmas, which would already be reason enough to use their code. However, their solution is also all kinds of robust, and it really lends itself to tracking dynamic stuff as well.<\/p>\n


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What you\u2019ll need<\/h2>\n

The modifications will be done to the JavaScript code in the Custom HTML Tag. In other words, you can\u2019t use Bounteous\u2019 CDN<\/a> for this. You will have to create a Custom HTML Tag, and copy-paste the code in the next chapter within.<\/p>\n

As for the rest of the stuff, just follow Bounteous\u2019 guide. All this does is add a method you can trigger when videos have been loaded dynamically. Don\u2019t worry, I\u2019ll explain the method later on as well.<\/p>\n

The modified Custom HTML Tag<\/h2>\n

So, follow the Bounteous guide<\/a>, avoiding the CDN, and when you come to the chapter titled Google Tag Manager Installation<\/strong>, read the following instead.<\/p>\n

Create a new Custom HTML Tag, and give it some cool name like Utility – Video Tracking Bomb Overload Christmas Awesome<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Sorry for that.<\/p>\n

Next, add the following code.<\/p>\n

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Yes, that is a LOT of stuff. Bear with me, though.<\/p>\n
The modifications to Bounteous\u2019 solution are few but significant.<\/p>\n
First of all, instead of using an anonymous function<\/strong>, we\u2019re actually reserving a slot in the global namespace, and exposing the function in a variable named ytTracker<\/code>.<\/p>\n
We do this because we want to invoke certain methods in the setup after the initial execution. If we didn\u2019t expose a public method for it, we\u2019d need to run the whole thing again and again, each time a video is dynamically loaded, and that\u2019s just a huge strain on performance.<\/p>\n
Next thing we\u2019re doing is adding a single line into the normalizeYouTubeIframe()<\/code> method:<\/p>\n
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function<\/span> normalizeYouTubeIframe( youTubeVideo ) {\n  ...\n  youTubeVideo.setAttribute('data-gtm-yt'<\/span>, 'true'<\/span>); \/\/ \n  return<\/span> youTubeVideo;\n}\n<\/span><\/code><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
The youTubeVideo.setAttribute()<\/code> command is used to add a data attribute to all iframes which have already been treated by the script. This is because we want to avoid running the initialization methods again and again for videos which have already been configured for tracking. In my testing, if a video was tracked multiple times it led to runtime conflicts.<\/p>\n
Now that the data attribute is there, we need to check for its existence. In the checkIfYouTubeVideo()<\/code> method, we\u2019ll add the check like this:<\/p>\n
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function<\/span> checkIfYouTubeVideo( potentialYouTubeVideo ) {    \n  if<\/span> (potentialYouTubeVideo.getAttribute('data-gtm-yt'<\/span>)) {\n    return<\/span> false<\/span>;\n  }\n  ...\n}\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
This check just looks for the data-gtm-yt<\/strong> attribute we added in the previous step, and if it\u2019s found, the initialization is skipped for this particular video.<\/p>\n
This way only videos which have not<\/strong> been treated yet will be processed.<\/p>\n
Finally, we need to expose two methods in the ytTracker<\/code> interface. These will let us handle dynamically added videos. Lets do that in the very end of the function expression.<\/p>\n
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var<\/span> ytTracker = (function<\/span>(...) {\n  ...\n  return<\/span> {\n    init : init,\n    digestPotentialVideos : digestPotentialVideos\n  }\n})(...);\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
We return<\/strong> an object with two members: init<\/code> and digestPotentialVideos<\/code>. So, when we call ytTracker.init()<\/code>, the script is basically run again, and all newly added, yet untreated YouTube iframe embeds will be processed and decorated with event trackers.<\/p>\n
If you want it to be a bit more robust, you can use ytTracker.digestPotentialVideos(iframe)<\/code> instead. You pass an iframe object as its parameter, and the script will only treat the one video. This is better since it won\u2019t loop through all the iframes on the page, and instead just decorates the one you want.<\/p>\n
Finally, set the Custom HTML Tag to fire on a Page View \/ DOM Ready<\/strong> Trigger.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the changes right there, ladies and gentlemen.<\/p>\n
How to use it<\/h2>\n
As said, there\u2019s two new methods in town:<\/p>\n
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ytTracker.init(); \/\/ ytTracker.digestPotentialVideos(iframe); \/\/ <\/span><\/span><\/code><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
Making the solution work will still most likely require developer help. If your developers have added some complex, dynamic content loaders, which add the videos after some awesome jQuery fade-in has finished, you\u2019ll need to cooperate with them to add the ytTracker.init()<\/code> or ytTracker.digestPotentialVideos()<\/code> command in the right place.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s an example of what a modified content loader might look like:<\/p>\n
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function<\/span> processVideoClick(ytEmbedSrc) {\n  var<\/span> video = document<\/span>.createElement('iframe'<\/span>);\n  video.src = ytEmbedSrc;\n  var<\/span> content = document<\/span>.querySelector('#content'<\/span>);\n  content.appendChild(video);\n  window<\/span>.ytTracker.digestPotentialVideos(video);\n}\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
After the video is injected, you call ytTracker.digestPotentialVideos()<\/code>. You could use the init()<\/code> method without any parameters, but since you already have the iframe element at hand, it\u2019s better to use the more direct method.<\/p>\n
Summary<\/h2>\n
Since loading content dynamically is notoriously standard-free, it\u2019s difficult to give a generic solution for managing dynamically loaded content in your analytics or tag management platform. However, Bounteous\u2019 original solution has a very nice set of tools to tackle dynamically loaded YouTube videos as well, without having to make drastic modifications to the code.<\/p>\n
Bounteous\u2019 solution is so flexible and useful. Poking some holes into its interface to let some light out just makes it even better, in my own, humble opinion.<\/p>\n
The optimal way of working with it is to cooperate with your developers. I hope we\u2019ve all matured past the notion of GTM being developer-independent<\/a>. So, communicate with your developers, ask them to modify the JavaScript controlling the dynamic video injection, and request that they\u2019ll add the simple ytTracker<\/code> methods to the handlers they create.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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