Media Analytics

Get powerful insights into how your audience watches your video & listens to your audio content by using Media Analytics. This feature adds many new reports and widgets to your Matomo to help you understand how your users interact with your Media to maximize your success.

 

Getting started

What does Media Analytics do? Tracking videos & audio Analyse media analytics reportsWhich media players are currently supported?Get started tracking Media Analytics dataTrack live event and HTTP Live streaming videosIs there any data limit to how many videos can be tracked or how many events?

Track media

Tracking videos & audioDisable the tracking of individual videos and audioExclude URL parameters that are shown in the media resource reportDoes Media Analytics work with a single webpage application?Disable the tracking of all media for a specific siteCustomize the tracking of my mediaEnable or disable the tracking of all media eventsExclude employees or partners views and clicks from the video and audio analytics reportsDoes playing a media keep the visit session of a visitor alive?How often is the current progress of a media updated when a visitor is playing it?Prevent YouTube from placing cookies when tracking YouTube videos

Analyse media

Analyse media analytics reportsWhich metrics do I get out of Media Analytics?Which analytics reports are provided by Media Analytics?View the detailed video analytics for a particular videoSee an evolution of my media consumptionSee a map showing from where my audience isSee how visitors are consuming and using my mediaWhat is a media « impression » and « impression rate »?What does the metric « Time to initial play » mean?Segment data by media usageWill the reports be shown in the Matomo Mobile app for Android and iOS?How is the grouped media resource report different to the media resource report?Get the the total number of Impressions and Plays for Media from the Matomo databaseBe alerted by email or text message, when any of my video or audio gets significantly more (or less) viewsFetch Media Analytics reports via the Matomo HTTP Reporting APIChange the interval of how often the real time Media Analytics reports are updated

How to

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Compatibility

I use a different media player that is not supported by the Media Analytics plugin, what can I do?Are YouTube playlists analytics provided?How are video & audio loops handled?Which browsers are supported?Track my videos when I am using the jQuery fancyBox pluginDoes Media Analytics work with the SoundManager 2 library?

Troubleshoot

I use a different media player that is not supported by the Media Analytics plugin, what can I do?Why are some media titles « Unknown »?Why have some visitors triggered many pause and resume events?Rate limits when tracking media events

On-Premise FAQs

Where can I get the Media Analytics?Who develops & maintains the Media Analytics plugin?What about the quality of this plugin?Which Matomo version is required for this plugin?Does the video tracker and audio tracker add a lot of data to the Matomo JavaScript tracker?Do I get access to the raw data that was tracked?Fix an « Allowed memory size exhausted » error in Media AnalyticsUnder what license is the Media Analytics tracker released?