Youbora Destination

Web Destination

When you enable Youbora in the Segment web app, your changes appear in the Segment CDN in about 45 minutes, and then Analytics.js starts asynchronously loading Youbora’s Javascript onto your page. (This means you should remove Youbora’s snippet from your page.)

Youbora automatically starts recording data.

Tracking Video Events

Segment can keep track of events occurring on any number of video players on your page. You must include the session_id propert with every video event you want to send to the Youbora so Segment can keep track of which player to attribute the events to.

Video Playback Started

When a user starts playback of a video, use the Video Playback Started event. Segment maps the properties from the Video Playback Started event to the following Youbora video metadata fields:

Video Content Started

When the video content actually begins playing, use the Video Content Started event. Segment maps the properties from the Video Playback Started event to the following Youbora video metadata fields:

Using the difference in time between when Video Playback Started and Video Content Started, Youbora will calculate the join time for you.

Video Playback Paused/Resumed

When a user pauses/resumes playback of a video, use the Video Playback Paused and Video Playback Resumed events.

If the user pauses during an ad, be sure to fill the properties.ad_asset_id field from our spec for both calls, as we use its presence to determine whether the pause is occurring during an ad or not.

Example

analytics.track('Video Playback Paused', {
    session_id: '1',
    ad_asset_id: '12345'
});

analytics.track('Video Playback Resumed', {
    session_id: '1',
    ad_asset_id: '12345'
});

Video Playback Seek Started/Completed

When the video content actually begins playing, use the Video Playback Seek Started and Video Playback Seek Completed events. Youbora internally calculates the duration of the seek but if you would prefer to provide this value yourself you can pass it as the integration-specific option duration.

Example

analytics.track('Video Playback Seek Started');

analytics.track('Video Playback Seek Completed');

Video Playback Buffer Started/Completed

When the video content buffers during playback, use the Video Playback Buffer Started and Video Playback Buffer Completed events. Segment maps the properties from these events to the following Youbora video metadata fields:

If the buffer occurs during an ad, be sure to fill the properties.ad_asset_id field from our spec for both calls, as we use its presence to determine whether the buffer is occurring during an ad or not.

Example

analytics.track('Video Playback Buffer Started', { session_id: 1 });

analytics.track('Video Playback Buffer Completed', { session_id: 1 });

Video Playback Interrupted

When playback of a video is interrupted, use the Video Playback Interrupted event.

Video Playback Completed

To track the completion of the video playback session, use our Video Playback Completed event.

Example

analytics.track('Video Playback Completed', { session_id: 1 });

Video Ad Started

When an ad begins to load, use the Video Ad Started event. Segment maps the properties from these events to the following Youbora video metadata fields:

Example

analytics.track('Video Ad Started', { session_id: 1, title: 'Test Ad Title', ad_asset_id: 1 });

Video Ad Completed

To track the completion of an ad, use our Video Ad Completed event.

Example

analytics.track('Video Ad Completed', { session_id: 1, ad_asset_id: 1 });

Video Ad Clicked

To track an ad click, track an event with event name ‘Video Ad Clicked’.

Example

analytics.track('Video Ad Clicked', { session_id: 1, ad_asset_id: 1 });

Automatic Video Player Tracking

Youbora supports automatic video tracking for the following video players:

• DashJS
• HTML5
• JWPlayer
• TheoPlayer
• ThePlatform
• VideoJS

However, note that relying solely on Youbora auto tracking will not send your video events to Segment downstream destinations, including a raw data warehouse. To track data to downstream tools, we recommend either manually implementing all video player events or manually implementing all events alongside Youbora. If you employ the latter method, you should indicate explicitly that your Segment events should not flow to Youbora (because they’ve already been auto-tracked by the Youbora library).

analytics.track('Video Playback Started', { // empty properties object
  }, {
  integrations: {
    'Youbora': false
  }
});

In order to track a player that falls in one of the above categories, follow the below steps:

1. Ensure you have the latest snippet on your page (Updated 2/6/18).
2. If your snippet is in the head of your page, move it to the very bottom of your body, right before the </body> tag.
3. Replace the load method in your snippet with the following (you can delete any of the categories you won’t be using):

     analytics.load(<YOUR WRITE KEY HERE>, {
    integrations: {
      Youbora: {
        players: {
          videojs: [],
          html5: [],
          jwplayer: [],
          theoplayer: [],
          theplatform: [],
          videojs: []
        }
      }
    }
     });
   

4. Add players inside the appropriate category in the following format:

   {
    player: video player object or video player id,
    options: {
        YOUBORA OPTIONS HERE
    }
   }
   

In the player field, pass the video player object, or the ID of the video player element in the case of HTML5.

In the options field, you can pass options the same way you would pass them natively to Youbora as documented here.

See the below example for what a working implementation looks like:

  <script>
    var vplayer = videojs('html5player')

      !function(){var analytics=window.analytics=window.analytics||[];if(!analytics.initialize)if(analytics.invoked)window.console&&console.error&&console.error("Segment snippet included twice.");else{analytics.invoked=!0;analytics.methods=["trackSubmit","trackClick","trackLink","trackForm","pageview","identify","reset","group","track","ready","alias","debug","page","once","off","on","addSourceMiddleware","addIntegrationMiddleware","setAnonymousId","addDestinationMiddleware"];analytics.factory=function(t){return function(){var e=Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments);e.unshift(t);analytics.push(e);return analytics}};for(var t=0;t<analytics.methods.length;t++){var e=analytics.methods[t];analytics[e]=analytics.factory(e)}analytics.load=function(t,e){var n=document.createElement("script");n.type="text/javascript";n.async=!0;n.src="https://cdn.segment.com/analytics.js/v1/"+t+"/analytics.min.js";var a=document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0];a.parentNode.insertBefore(n,a);analytics._loadOptions=e};analytics.SNIPPET_VERSION="4.1.0";

      analytics.load("YOUR_WRITE_KEY", {
        integrations: {
          Youbora: {
            players: {
              videojs: [
                {
                  player: vplayer,
                  options: {
                    'content.title': 'My Awesome Content'
                  }
                }
              ],
              html5: [
                {
                  player: 'html5-player',
                  options: {}
              ]
            }
          }
        }
      });
      analytics.page();
    }}();

  </script>

Supported Sources and Connection Modes

Before you start, make sure Youbora supports the source type and connection mode you’ve chosen to implement. You can learn more about connection modes here.

Settings

Segment lets you change these destination settings from the Segment app without having to touch any code.

Account Code

Your Youbora account code