Tracking Video Views

[JeffReckart]

I hav posted a flash player on my church's website, and I want to determine how may times it has been viewed. Google Analytics will tell me how many times the page these videos on on has been viewed, but I want to know if the video has been played. Also would be nice to know if the video has been watched in it's entireity, or just partially. Does Flash have this ability or is there a code in can be inserted?

Help?

Jreckart

[CopyrightSolver]

There are mechanisms for doing these things in the gaforflash open source project:

http://code.google.com/p/gaforflash/

Looks like it requires some journeyman development skills.

[TJ Krusinski]

JW Player and Flow Player (google) have plug-ins for google analytics, look into them. Plus they're modern and have HTML5 fall back to be friendly to your mobile viewers, so long as you've encoded your video file properly.

[ChurchWebmaster]

If you have access to the Flash player code you can write script to redirect to a page after the video is complete. This will allow you to use Google analytics to analyze traffic to the redirect page.