This page describes the available metrics when you enable Media Core for a report suite. See Streaming Media core dimensions for available dimensions.
Streaming Media core metrics provide basic reporting functionality to data collected through streaming media collection libraries. Use of these metrics require the Adobe Streaming Media Collection. Contact your Adobe Account Team for details.
When you enable Media Core under Media reporting, the following metrics are available:
Metric name | Description | Sent with | Context data variable |
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Average minute audience | The total amount of time spent on a given piece of content, divided by its length for all of its playback sessions.[Time spent] / [Media length] |
Media Close | a.media.averageMinuteAudience |
Content completes | Triggers when a piece of content completes. This metric does not necessarily mean that they viewed the entirety of the content; they could have skipped ahead. It only means that they reached the end of the content. | a.media.complete |
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Paused impacted streams | A boolean that triggers if one or more pauses happened during the playback of content. | Media Close | a.media.pause |
Pause events | The count of pauses that happened during a playback session. | Media Close | a.media.pauseCount |
Total pause duration | The total duration of all pause events, in seconds. | Media Close | a.media.pauseTime |
Content starts | The first frame of media is consumed. If a user drops during an ad or during buffering, this event does not trigger. | Media Close | a.media.play |
10% progress marker | The playhead passes the 10% marker of content based on length. This marker is only counted once, even if seeking backwards. If seeking forward, skipped markers are not counted. | Media Close | a.media.progress10 |
25% progress marker | The playhead passes the 25% marker of content based on length. This marker is only counted once, even if seeking backwards. If seeking forward, skipped markers are not counted. | Media Close | a.media.progress25 |
50% progress marker | The playhead passes the 50% marker of content based on length. This marker is only counted once, even if seeking backwards. If seeking forward, skipped markers are not counted. | Media Close | a.media.progress50 |
75% progress marker | The playhead passes the 75% marker of content based on length. This marker is only counted once, even if seeking backwards. If seeking forward, skipped markers are not counted. | Media Close | a.media.progress75 |
95% progress marker | The playhead passes the 95% marker of content based on length. This marker is only counted once, even if seeking backwards. If seeking forward, skipped markers are not counted. | Media Close | a.media.progress95 |
Content resumes | A boolean that triggers when content is resumed after more than 30 minutes of buffer, pause, or stall period. Also triggers if set by the player on the VideoInfo trackPlay. | Media Close | a.media.resume |
Content segment views | A boolean that triggers on the first frame of viewed segment. | Media Close | a.media.segmentView |
Media starts | A boolean that triggers when the media initially loads. This event includes ads, buffering, and errors. | Media Start | a.media.view |
Content time spent | The total event duration for all events of type PLAY on the main content, in seconds. | Media Close | a.media.timePlayed |
Unique time played | The total amount of time that unique content is played, in seconds. This metric excludes time played when viewing repeat content, such as seeking backwards. | Media Close | a.media.uniqueTimePlayed |