In addition to the video data available in MyVideoly, we're able to send events to your Google Tag Manager dataLayer.
The event name containing the underscore (ie, Videoly_initialize) is what you'll receive to your GA4 property. The JSON object below describes the events as they are sent to your dataLayer.
Videoly_initialize: every time a user visits a product with a video
{ Videoly.showVideos: true||false event: "Videoly.initialize" product: "Garmin Forerunner 55" || page: "Cannondale bikes" timestamp: Thu Dec 01 2022 14:08:46 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time) type: "product"||"page" }
Videoly_videoStart: every time a user starts playing a video in the widget
{ event: "Videoly.videoStart" product: "Garmin Forerunner 55" || page: "Cannondale bikes" timestamp: Thu Dec 01 2022 14:13:58 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time) videoTitle: "Forerunner® 55: See Yourself as a Runner – Garmin® Retail Training" videoUrl: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNPSPS7UzwI" type: "product"||"page" }
Videoly_progress_xx : these progress events show when a user has watched 25%, 50% and 95% of a video.
Videoly_progress_25
{ event: "Videoly.progress-25%" product: "Garmin Forerunner 55" || page: "Cannondale bikes" timestamp: Thu Dec 01 2022 14:14:41 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time) videoTitle: "Forerunner® 55: See Yourself as a Runner – Garmin® Retail Training" videoUrl: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNPSPS7UzwI" type: "product"||"page" }
Videoly_progress_50
{ event: "Videoly.progress-50%" product: "Garmin Forerunner 55" || page: "Cannondale bikes" timestamp: Thu Dec 01 2022 14:15:23 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time) videoTitle: "Forerunner® 55: See Yourself as a Runner – Garmin® Retail Training" videoUrl: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNPSPS7UzwI" type: "product"||"page" }
Videoly_progress_95
{ event: "Videoly.progress-95%" product: "Garmin Forerunner 55" || page: "Cannondale bikes" timestamp: Thu Dec 01 2022 14:16:37 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time) videoTitle: "Forerunner® 55: See Yourself as a Runner – Garmin® Retail Training" videoUrl: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNPSPS7UzwI" type: "product"||"page" }
The name of each event is the indicator of the watch progress, but the data pushed in each is identical, other than timestamp. The event Videoly_progress_95 can be used as an indicator of a completed video watch.
Videoly_videoClosed: every time a user closes the player
{ event: "Videoly.videoClosed" product: "Garmin Forerunner 55" || page: "Cannondale bikes" timestamp: Thu Dec 01 2022 14:16:45 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time) videoChange: true||false videoTitle: "Forerunner® 55: See Yourself as a Runner – Garmin® Retail Training" videoUrl: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=329&v=LNPSPS7UzwI" type: "product"||"page" }
💡NOTE: videoChange indicates whether the Videoly_videoClosed event was triggered by the player actually being closed, or if the event was triggered by the user moving to the next video. true = user moved to next video. false = user closed the player:
- true = user moved on to the next video
- false = user closed the player.
Videoly_showMore: every time a user clicks the ‘show more’ button to show more video thumbnails, either in the pop-up or in expanded inline mode.
{ event: "Videoly.showMore", product: "Huawei Mate S" || page: "Cannondale bikes" , timestamp: Mon Mar 28 2016 13:33:39 GMT+0300 (EEST) type: "product"||"page" }
Videoly_showLess: every time a user clicks ‘close’ on the expanded pop-up, or the ‘show less’ button on the expanded inline widget.
{ event: "Videoly.showLess", product: "Huawei Mate S" || page: "Cannondale bikes" , timestamp: Mon Mar 28 2016 13:33:53 GMT+0300 (EEST) type: "product"||"page" }
Videoly_ctaClick: every time a user clicks on a CTA link from the player on Pages (add-on)
{ event: "Videoly.ctaClick", product: "Huawei Mate S" || page: "Cannondale bikes" , timestamp: Mon Mar 28 2016 13:33:53 GMT+0300 (EEST), linkTitle: "More info", linkUrl: "https://super.shop/product", type: "product"||"page" }
Find out how to push events from your dataLayer to your GA property, here.
👉 Questions? Contact support@videoly.co to learn more.