About Engaged-view conversions

YouTube video viewers have strong intent to watch the content they’ve come to YouTube for and because of that, are very likely to stay on the platform when they encounter an ad as part of their viewing experience. This tells us why 70% of YouTube viewers say that they bought a brand as a result of finding the brand on YouTube.

From YouTube, people don’t often take action directly after viewing the ad. Instead, they often take action after they’ve finished their full viewing session. This is where Engaged-view conversions come in.

An Engaged-view conversion caters specifically to video advertising (on YouTube and the Google Display Network) and the different behavior users exhibit when watching videos as opposed to viewing other types of ads.

Engaged-view conversions are counted when a user watches at least 10 seconds of a skippable in-stream ad (or watches the entire skippable in-stream ad, if it’s shorter than 10 seconds) and then converts within the Engaged-view conversion window.

Benefits

• More accurate way to measure performance delivered by direct response video ads
• Greater indication of user engagement
• Helps you better understand the value of your ads and grow your business as user behavior evolves and new viewing habits, devices, and experiences become available.

Note for Video campaigns: Engagements for ad formats that aren’t currently measured through views (such as bumper ads or non-skippable in-stream ads) are based on clicks.

Campaign types that track Engaged-view conversions

• App campaigns
• Display campaigns
• Video campaigns (TrueView for actions and Video action campaigns)

Engaged-view conversions for Display ads

Display campaigns showcase your visual ads across millions of sites and apps, making these ads a highly effective sales and marketing tool.

Measuring your campaigns and conversions accurately has never been more important and knowing the full impact of your Display ads means looking beyond clicks. Engaged-view conversions have proven to be a more robust non-click conversion metric, and you can use them in your Display campaigns with video assets.

Responsive display ads can feature video assets that you create and upload, or they can be generated automatically using your existing text and image assets. With Engaged-view conversions, you can help capture the value of those video assets in your campaign performance. Having this better understanding of the impact of your ads is a key first step toward improving their performance.

Engaged-view conversions reporting

• Display: You’ll find Engaged-view conversions included in the “All conversions” column of your Display campaign reporting (in the “Campaigns” tab on the page menu). “All conversions” includes the data in your “Conversions” column, conversion actions you’ve chosen not to include in your “Conversions” column, store visits, certain phone calls, and more. These additional conversions can give you a more accurate understanding of how users interact with your business, and this helps you better calculate the effectiveness of your advertising. Learn more about “All conversions”
• Video and App campaigns: You’ll find Engaged-view conversions included in the “Interactions” column of your Video and App campaign reporting (in the “Campaigns” tab on the page menu). Interactions include clicks, swipes, and views. If you’d like to compare click-through conversions to Engaged-view conversions in your campaign reporting, click the Segments icon , then click Conversions and in the “Conversions” menu, click Ad event type. This will separate out click-through conversions (called “Clicks”) from Engaged-view conversions (which fall under the label “Interactions”) in your campaign reporting.

Engaged-view conversion windows

Engaged-view conversion windows can be adjusted to give you more control over measuring conversions. You can set a different conversion window for each conversion action. Set and update conversion windows in your conversion action settings. You’ll also be able to choose an Engaged-view conversion window whenever you create a new conversion. Learn more about conversion windows.

Engaged-view conversion window defaults vary depending on the type of campaign you’re running:

• Video action campaign: 3 days
• TrueView for action campaign: 3 days
• App campaign for installs: 2 days
• App campaign for engagement: 1 day
• Display campaigns: 3 days

Instructions for updating or editing Engaged-view conversion windows

 

Note: The instructions below are part of the new design for the Google Ads user experience. To use the previous design, click the "Appearance" icon, and select Use previous design. If you're using the previous version of Google Ads, review the Quick reference map or use the Search bar in the top navigation panel of Google Ads to find the page you’re searching for.

1. In your Google Ads account, click the Goals icon .
2. Click the Conversions drop down in the section menu.
3. Click Summary.
4. Find the conversion action you'd like to edit. Click its name in the “Name” column.
5. In the “Settings” section, click Edit settings.
6. Click Engaged-view conversion window. In the drop-down, select how long it takes to track conversions after an ad interaction.
7. Click Done.

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Related link

• About “All conversions”
• About conversion windows