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Adobe Launch extension update: YouTube Playback v1.5 - video milestones!

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A new milestone has been reached for my YouTube Playback extension for Adobe Experience Platform Launch. With version 1.5.0, video milestones can now be tracked! (And also customised states when the video is playing.) For a long time, I've resisted adding video milestone tracking to my extension for one simple reason: it's not actually a supported feature in YouTube's IFrame API. My goal for my extension was to ensure that whatever functions that YouTube exposed in its API could be accessed through my extension with no (or little) coding. To that extent, I had succeeded. But my extension's users wanted more. And top of their list was video milestones. This is where pre-set milestones, like 25%, 50% or 75% of the video, will trigger Events that Adobe Launch can detect and operate on. Whenever someone asked me for it, my usual response was "That's not in the API, so you'll have to write your own custom code for it." But that response was clearly not wha