Title: Video Tracking
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Video Tracking

 *  [MarcosAlonso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcosalonso/)
 * (@marcosalonso)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/video-tracking/)
 * Hi There,
 * I installed this plugin in my website, but I don´t see in GA any events related
   to my Youtube Videos. My website is: [http://innovationinsider.com.br/category/videos-podcasts/](http://innovationinsider.com.br/category/videos-podcasts/)
 * Do you know any reason why it´s not working for me?
 * Thanks
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 *  Plugin Author [digitalpoint](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digitalpoint/)
 * (@digitalpoint)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/video-tracking/#post-6345780)
 * It looks like whatever you are using to display YouTube videos where the iframe
   for the YouTube video isn’t actually on the page when it initially loads (rather
   some sort of lightbox system that loads it after you click the link).
 * What lightbox system are you using? I’ll see if there might be a way to hook 
   into that system to do it.
 *  Thread Starter [MarcosAlonso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcosalonso/)
 * (@marcosalonso)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/video-tracking/#post-6345784)
 * I´m using “WP Video Lightbox v1.7.5”
 *  Plugin Author [digitalpoint](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digitalpoint/)
 * (@digitalpoint)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/video-tracking/#post-6345836)
 * Unfortunately I don’t think it’s going to be possible. That plugin is generating
   the YouTube iframe embed code via JavaScript, and not actually using it until
   the user does something (clicks the link). So the actual YouTube iframe code 
   isn’t being added to the page until after a user action (the clicking of a link).
   The way the analytics side of everything works, is it looks in the page for YouTube
   iframes and then actually alters their URL slightly to tell them to fire events
   based on the YouTube event API.
 * Without any changes to the Video Lightbox plugin, the only real way to do it 
   would be so ugly that it really shouldn’t be done (would involve something like
   checking for any new youtube iframes that show up in the page source every few
   seconds over and over in a loop).
 * If the author of that plugin wanted to collaborate to come up with a way to do
   it via a jQuery trigger or something, it probably wouldn’t be too difficult for
   us to get them to “play nicely” together, but it would require them to make a
   few changes on their end too.

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