Real-Time Video Tracking

How to track video events on article pages?

The smartocto JavaScript tracker supports video event tracking. If you have already embedded the real-time tracking script into your website, a video track function is available to be attached to play event listeners to each video.

The smartocto Tentacles script must be loaded on the page in order to support video tracking.

Video meta-data properties:

Name	Required	Description	Type
brandId	No	brand ID, provided by the Support team	string
videoId	Yes	Unique identifier of the video	string
title	Yes	Title of the video	string
pubDate	Yes	Published date and time of the video	string
uri	No	The full url of the video	string
channel	No	The platform (web, android or ios or app). When empty the default value is 'web'	string

Example code: video view in website

This is the example code block that you should modify to enable video events tracking:

var player = your_video_player_instance;

player.on('play', function() {
  window.tentacles.onVideoPlay(
    {
      brandId: '',
      videoId: 'video-ID',
      title: 'Video Title',
      pubDate: '2022-12-31T23:59:59+00:00',
      uri: 'https://yourdomain.com/video-url'
      channel: 'web'
    }
  );
});

Example code: video view in Android app

This is the example code block that you should modify to enable video events tracking:

var player = your_video_player_instance;

player.on('play', function() {
  window.tentacles.onVideoPlay(
    {
      brandId: '',
      videoId: 'video-ID',
      title: 'Video Title',
      pubDate: '2022-12-31T23:59:59+00:00',
      channel: 'android'
    }
  );
});

Please note that automatically discovering videos on the page is not supported in this version.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact our Support Team: support@smartocto.com