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Advertising Pod Details Collection data type

Last update: June 3, 2026

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Advertising Pod Details Collection is a standard Experience Data Model (XDM) data type. It defines a sequence or group of ads typically played in succession during content breaks. Use the Advertising Pod Details Collection data type to capture details such as the ad break ID, a friendly name for the ad break, the index of ads within the break, and the offset of the ad break within the content’s timeline in seconds.

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A diagram of the Advertising Pod Details Collection data type.
NOTE
This data type belongs to the mediaCollection schema — fields that your implementation sends to the streaming media backend. Adobe processes this data and produces the corresponding mediaReporting fields, which are ingested into Platform datasets. See Streaming media XDM reporting schema for details.

Each display name contains a link to further information on its implementation variable. The linked pages contain details on the data collected by Adobe, implementation values, network parameters, and important considerations.

Display name
Property
Data type
Required
Description
Ad In Pod Position
index
integer
Yes
The index of the ad inside the parent ad break start.
Pod Friendly Name
friendlyName
string
No
The easily understandable name of the ad break.
Pod Offset
offset
integer
Yes
The offset of the ad break inside the content, in seconds.
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