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BC-Josef
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Tracking average time a viewer views a video with Google Analytics

Hello,

 

With Google analytics, is there is a way to track what the average time a viewer views  a video?

 

Thanks,

 

Josef

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Re: Tracking average time a viewer views a video with Google Analytics

I'm not sure if this is possible with Google Analytics but I do know this is a fundamental feature of Visible Measures.

 

It'd be good to know though. Anyone done this with Google?

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BC-Cam
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Re: Tracking average time a viewer views a video with Google Analytics

Not in any elegant graph orientated way unfortunately.

 

I've managed to do this using event tracking - setting the Video name as the Category, the Media Progress as the Action and the % complete as the label


Some math is done to figure out the timecodes for each % and as the player hits each it triggers the call.

 

It's pretty simplistic but it gets a baseline in place.