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00:00:00 – 00:12:53
The video, presented by Julius from the YouTube channel Analytics Mania, provides a comprehensive tutorial on utilizing audience triggers in Google Analytics 4 (GA4) for enhanced user interaction tracking and data analysis. Julius demonstrates setting up event tracking for engaged users who scroll to the bottom of a webpage and stay for at least 60 seconds using Google Tag Manager, outlining the configuration of timer triggers and scroll events.
Further, he details creating custom audiences and audience triggers that automatically track events when users meet specific conditions, such as prolonged page visits and full-page scrolls. He explains how to enable recurring event tracking, address potential delays in event logging, and the importance of session-start events to limit tracking to once per session.
For practical applications, Julius shows how to create audience triggers for e-commerce tracking, such as targeting users who see a promotion and make a purchase within the same session. He emphasizes proper event sequencing to ensure accuracy. He concludes by underscoring that audience triggers fire once per session due to the session start event's nature, encouraging viewers to engage with his content for further tutorials on Google Tag Manager and GA4.
00:00:00
In this part of the video, Julius from the Analytics Mania YouTube channel explains what audience triggers are in Google Analytics 4 (GA4) and their usefulness. He demonstrates how to track engaged users, defined as users who scroll to the bottom of any page and stay for at least 60 seconds. Julius outlines the steps to set up event tracking using Google Tag Manager: configuring a timer trigger for 60 seconds, ensuring the scroll event is automatically tracked by GA4, and creating a GA4 event tag to track the timer event. He assumes viewers are familiar with GA4 installation and configuration tags.
00:03:00
In this segment of the video, the speaker demonstrates how to set up and test a timer and scroll event on a website using Google Analytics. After saving the settings, they preview the page and check if the scroll event was tracked. They also verify if the timer event appears after staying on the page for 60 seconds. The speaker explains the ingredients needed to create an audience trigger and provides brief background information on audiences for retargeting ads and report comparisons in Google Analytics. The tutorial proceeds to creating a custom audience by specifying conditions such as the user staying on a page for more than 60 seconds and scrolling to the bottom. The speaker then guides on setting up an audience trigger to automatically track an event when a user enters the audience, including naming conventions and settings.
00:06:00
In this part of the video, the presenter explains how to configure a Google Analytics event to fire every time a specific user action occurs, not just once based on user membership duration. They demonstrate enabling an option to track recurring events, save the audience settings, and test the setup through Google Analytics 4’s debug view. The presenter refreshes the webpage, performs specific user actions, and observes the events tracked in debug mode. They note a delay in event tracking and suggest waiting or clearing cookies to reset the user session as potential fixes. Additionally, the presenter highlights that actions repeated within the same session will generate multiple audience trigger events and advises adding a session-start event to limit this to once per session. Finally, they mention that once set, audience trigger settings in Google Analytics cannot be edited.
00:09:00
In this part of the video, the speaker explains how to manage and create new audience triggers in Google Analytics for specific tracking purposes. If changes to existing settings are needed, one must archive the current audience and create a new one with updated conditions. Examples are provided, such as creating an audience trigger for e-commerce tracking, specifically targeting events like purchases and internal promotions. The speaker details how to set conditions to track if a user sees a promotion and then makes a purchase within the same session, or vice versa. For more specific tracking, a sequence can be set to ensure the correct order of events. Another use case is tracking conversions to ensure they count only once per session, which can be managed by setting appropriate conditions involving session start events.
00:12:00
In this part of the video, the speaker explains that the audience trigger in Google Analytics 4 will fire only once per session since the session start occurs only once per session. This is how audience triggers can be configured. The speaker encourages viewers to like the video if they found it helpful and to subscribe to the channel for more content on Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics 4.