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Create a Custom Facebook Event for a Watched YouTube Video in Google Tag Manager

This tutorial walks through the process of creating a custom Facebook event that fires when users watch an embedded YouTube video on your website.

The full tutorial (with tag code) is here:

https://www.jonloomer.com/custom-facebook-event-watched-youtube-video-gtm

The steps:

1. Configure the Video Variables in Google Tag Manager
2. Create a Video Trigger
3. Create a Tag
4. Test it with the Facebook Pixel Helper

I used the following article as inspiration and made some alterations.

https://www.digishuffle.com/blogs/10-facebook-custom-events-to-build-custom-audiences-define-conversions/

Feel free to make your own alterations to fit your needs.