Hi Martin,

Wow, this is awesome! This is extremely helpful and detailed, and I’m so happy to see this new feature. I just have one more question to help me understand how to read these numbers: does the “video start” event encompass all video views? That is to say, if I were to look at a video’s stats and it said:

* Video start = 5
* Video first quartile = 4
* Video second quartile = 3
* Video third quartile = 2
* Video complete = 1

Would that mean there were 5 total video views, or 15? (5+4+3+2+1)

Thanks again!
Mike

Hi Lucia,

I think we’re actually going to just implement click-through on a hyperlink below the video. However! Now that I have you on the line, I’d like to ask you another question: how can I add a custom image and text over video content that says “click for sound,” and then unmutes the video when clicked?

For context, we are running autoplay videos on our website which serve purpose of ads within content. It runs muted on autoplay. People obviously have the option to raise the volume on the control bar, but we’d like to make it even easier to unmute the video.

Here’s what I envision: clicking the video would unmute it.

Is this possible within Flowplayer?

Thanks!
Mike

Hi Martin,

Here’s a more macro look at the numbers we’re getting. All numbers are taken from March 1-23.

News Story Pageviews: 621,360
News Story DESKTOP Pageviews: 248,544
(38% of all sessions were on desktop, and 38% of 621,360 is 248,544)

Considering the fact that we have one flowplayer video embedded on every single news story, and that all of those videos are set to autoplay on desktop, the number of total video views for that period of time should be equal to the number of desktop page views (248,544). However, the total number of events was…

Flowplayer Total Events: 84,455

It’s hard for us to understand this discrepancy. We have tested and confirmed that these videos successfully autoplay on desktop – Mac, PC, chrome, safari, IE. To see for yourself how these videos are embedded into our news stories, see this example (after the first paragraph) http://ithacavoice.com/2015/03/owner-encouraged-fate-cornell-icon-hot-truck-ithaca-meeting/

Perhaps somehow flowplayer is only counting sessions, rather than individual video views, as events. The total number of page sessions was 99,383 – much closer to the number of flowplayer events: 84,455.

Is there a way to verify this? I really am confident that I served closer to 248,544 video views via flowplayer this month, and that the reported number of 84,455 is far too low.

Thank you so much for helping me with this.
Mike

Hello again,

I was able to set up google analytics to track my Flowplayer videos, and it works great! However, I do have one question – while looking at the events for a video, how can I tell which event label correlates to which video? Perhaps it’s due to the fact that I’m using Vimeo as my host for these flowplayer videos, but the event labels are all just numbers, such as “322110164” (please see attached screen capture). Right now, determining which video that corresponds to is pure guesswork on my part.

Any advice is much appreciated!
Mike