Adobe’s Dynamic Tag Manager has always given developers a chance to define exactly when a rule was called, by firing _satellite.track("insert rule name here"). This is called a Direct Call Rule (or DCR). They didn’t always get a ton of product love- after all, Event Based Rules don’t require work from developers and have so many more options- but many DTM users used them heavily because of the control they provided and how incredibly straightforward they were.

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And that is it! If you are familiar with Adobe DTM, you can utilize this process to deploy YouTube Tracking, using Adobe Analytics, across your entire site in less than an hour.