I am using the Youtube Iframe API to embed Youtube videos on a website. The client asked to have instead of the video URL as href of the Youtube Logo (the one seen on the bottom right corner) the URL of the video channel (the Youtube Channel where the video was posted).
The client claims to have seen this before on some other website, but it could not provide an example .. My guess was to try looking for some player parameters (https://developers.google.com/youtube/player_parameters) but there is no such a parameter.
I read through the rest of the API Docs and googled the issue, but had no luck so far.
Did anyone manage to do this before? Is it somehow possible?
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UPD. I realised that I need to rephrase the question. So does anybody know how to track Youtube video views that come from a specific QR code? There may be different QR codes for the same video.
My ideas:
According to stackoverflow utm parameters don't work for youtube links. Theoretically I can create a page on my website that redirects to Youtube video page and put its link into QR code. Google Analytics will show stats for this page. But I can't track how long users watched the video because Youtube analytics shows breakdown of External traffic up to domain only and not for exact links. So not ideal and quite complicated with redirects.
Any other ideas? Thanks!
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Hi.
We need to create a QR code for a paper leaflet with the link leading to Youtube video page. We are going to add utm source parameter to the link to see how many people will use this QR code.
My question is where I can see the stats on non-standard traffic sources for this Youtube video page? I don't see this option in Youtube itself and I've read that if I link Google analytics to my Youtube channel, it will show data for the channel page only and not for individual video pages. Is it true? How can I see the breakdown of 'External' source in Youtube video page stats to see exact destinations the traffic comes from?
I'm in the process of setting up Google analytics for my channel and it doesn't work (it's a separate question) so I want to understand if it can help me with my problem at all.
Thank you!
UTM parameters will only work to show you data coming to your website. Also, setting up Google Analytics for your channel will only make sense if the channel videos are embedded in a website, otherwise, you just need to use YouTube Analytics.
is it possible to replace Youtube's embedded Video's Ads with my own video ads.
maybe using a video player to do that but how can i do?
for example. someone is embedding youtube videos somewhere else. he wants to show some video ads on those videos. how can he do that?
I doubt it is impossible. It is, however, illegal to do so. When using the YouTube Data API or the JS API you agree to their terms of service, which explicitly state that you may not alter or remove in-player ads of embedded videos (section II, paragraph 7).
Is it possible to replace Youtube's embedded Video's ads with my own video ads?
If you own the video the answer is YES, but if it's own by someone, the answer is NO. Only the owner/author of the video have rights to the ads of these video.
For more information, you can check this related SO question. It might give you an idea about your problem.
Also from the YouTube Help, it is stated here that:
You will automatically be opted into showing ads on embedded videos if
you've associated your YouTube and AdSense accounts and have enabled
your videos for embedding. Note that embedded videos will honor the
same ad enablement settings as videos on youtube.com.
If you don't want to show ads on your embedded videos, there is no way
to directly disable ads on just embedded videos, however, you may
disable your videos for embedding altogether.
When a YouTube video stops playing, related videos are often shown at the end in a grid (depending on the video owner's preference). I have an IFrame Player embedded on a web page that plays public YouTube videos. When a related videos at the end is clicked, a new page is opened playing the related video. I've scoured the API docs and although there doesn't seem to be a solution, I'm going to ask anyway in case I've missed something or some perspective. Is there an API setting that allows the video to play on the same iframe instead of opening a new page, or some solution that could be worked out?
I'm having problems identifying playback restrictions of embedded YouTube videos when using YouTube Data API v3.
Example: YouTube ID k85mRPqvMbE and 3n4dXiagrZc seem to share same restrictions when it comes to embedded playback (in my case on an iPhone). The parameters I have looked at are "embeddable" in Video API and videoSyndicated/videoEmbeddable in Search API.
All the "obvious" parameters give the same results for both videos, but while I can play "3n4dXiagrZc" on my device without any problems, "k85mRPqvMbE" refuses to play due to content owner blocking me from watching it (playback through YouTube app or YouTube web works fine though). Please note that I have check the country restrictions as well and my country is not blocked for any of the two.
Any ideas on how to identify videos via the YouTube Data API v3 that are blocked for the reason stated above?
If you do a JSON query, http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?v=2&alt=jsonc&q=videoid you will get the video info. Here look for "embed:allowed", if present the video is embeddable.. Hope this helps! :)
Is there any ASP.Net command that can detect how long youtube videos are automatically? On my website people can add youtube videos to the database but I don't wanna have to manually find out the length of every youtube video people add.
You might take a lil' look at the YouTube API. I haven't tried it, but I searched Google for 'YouTube API'.
http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/overview.html