Documentation Analytics Streaming Media Collection Guide

Request parameters

Last update: August 5, 2024

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Analytics Data

Request Key	Required	Request Type Key	Set On…	Description
`analytics.trackingServer`	Y	string	`sessionStart`	The URL of your Adobe Analytics server
`analytics.reportSuite`	Y	string	`sessionStart`	The ID that identifies your Analytics reporting data
`analytics.enableSSL`	N	boolean	`sessionStart`	True or false for enabling SSL
`analytics.visitorId`	N	string	`sessionStart`	The Adobe Visitor ID is a custom ID you can use across multiple Adobe applications. The Heartbeat `visitorId` equals the Analytics `VID.`

Visitor Data

Request Key	Required	Request Type Key	Set On…	Description
`visitor.marketingCloudOrgId`	Y	string	`sessionStart`	The Experience Cloud Organization ID; identifies your organization within the Adobe Experience Cloud eco system
`visitor.marketingCloudUserId`	N	string	`sessionStart`	This is the Experience Cloud User ID (ECID). In most scenarios this is the ID you should use to identify a user. The Heartbeat `marketingCloudUserId` equals the `MID` in Adobe Analytics. While not technically required, this parameter is necessary for accessing the Experience Cloud family of apps.
`visitor.aamLocationHint`	N	integer	`sessionStart`	Provides Adobe Audience Manager Edge data — If a value is not entered, the value is null.
`appInstallationId`	N	string	`sessionStart`	The appInstallationId uniquely identifies the app and the device

Content Data

Request Key	Required	Request Type Key	Set On…	Description
`media.id`	Y	string	`sessionStart`	Unique identifer for the content
`media.name`	N	string	`sessionStart`	Human readible name for the content
`media.length`	Y	number	`sessionStart`	Content length (seconds)
`media.contentType`	Y	string	`sessionStart`	Format of the stream (can be any string, a few recommanded values are “Live”, “VOD”, or “Linear”)
`media.playerName`	Y	string	`sessionStart`	The name of the player responsible for rendering the content
`media.channel`	Y	string	`sessionStart`	The channel of distribution of the content. This could be an mobile application name or a web site name, property name
`media.resume`	N	boolean	`sessionStart`	Indicates whether or not a user is resuming a previous session (as opposed to starting a new session)
`media.sdkVersion`	N	string	`sessionStart`	The SDK verison used by the player

Content Standard Metadata

Request Key	Required	Request Type Key	Set On…	Description
`media.streamFormat`	N	string	`sessionStart`	Stream format, e.g. “HD”
`media.show`	N	string	`sessionStart`	The program or series name
`media.season`	N	string	`sessionStart`	The season number the show or series belongs to
`media.episode`	N	string	`sessionStart`	The number of the episode
`media.assetId`	N	string	`sessionStart`	The unique identifier for the content of the video asset, such as the TV series episode identifier, movie asset identifier, or live event identifier. Typically these IDs are derived from metadata authorities such as EIDR, TMS/Gracenote, or Rovi. These identifiers can also be from other proprietary or in-house systems.
`media.genre`	N	string	`sessionStart`	The type of content as defined by the content producer
`media.firstAirDate`	N	string	`sessionStart`	The date when the content first aired on television
`media.firstDigitalDate`	N	string	`sessionStart`	The date when the content first aired on any digital platform
`media.rating`	N	string	`sessionStart`	The rating as defined by TV Parental Guidelines
`media.originator`	N	string	`sessionStart`	The creator of the content
`media.network`	N	string	`sessionStart`	The network / channel name
`media.showType`	N	string	`sessionStart`	The type of content, expressed as an integer between 0 and 3: 0 - Full episode 1 - Preview 2 - Clip 3 - Other
`media.adLoad`	N	string	`sessionStart`	The type of ad loaded
`media.pass.mvpd`	N	string	`sessionStart`	The MVPD provided by Adobe authentication
`media.pass.auth`	N	string	`sessionStart`	Indicates the user has been authorized by Adobe authentication (can only be true if set)
`media.dayPart`	N	string	`sessionStart`	The time of day when the content was broadcast
`media.feed`	N	string	`sessionStart`	The type of feed, e.g., “West-HD”

Ad Data

Request Key	Required	Request Type Key	Set On…	Description
`media.ad.podFriendlyName`	N	string	`adBreakStart`	Friendly name of the ad break
`media.ad.podIndex`	Y	integer	`adBreakStart`	The index of the ad pod in the video
`media.ad.podSecond`	Y	number	`adBreakStart`	The second at which the pod started
`media.ad.podPosition`	Y	integer	`adStart`	The index of the ad inside the ad break starting at 1
`media.ad.name`	N	string	`adStart`	Friendly name of the ad
`media.ad.id`	Y	string	`adStart`	Name of the ad
`media.ad.length`	Y	number	`adStart`	Length of the video ad in seconds
`media.ad.playerName`	Y	string	`adStart`	The name of the player responsible for rendering the ad

Ad Standard Metadata

Request Key	Required	Request Type Key	Set On…	Description
`media.ad.advertiser`	N	string	`adStart`	The company or brand whose product is featured in the ad
`media.ad.campaignId`	N	string	`adStart`	The ID of the ad campaign
`media.ad.creativeId`	N	string	`adStart`	The ID of the ad creative
`media.ad.siteId`	N	string	`adStart`	The ID of the ad site
`media.ad.creativeURL`	N	string	`adStart`	The URL of the ad creative
`media.ad.placementId`	N	string	`adStart`	The placement ID of the ad

Chapter Data

Request Key	Required	Request Type Key	Set On…	Description
`media.chapter.index`	Y	integer	`chapterStart`	Identifies the chapter’s position in the content
`media.chapter.offset`	Y	number	`chapterStart`	The second in the playback where the chapter starts
`media.chapter.length`	Y	number	`chapterStart`	The length of the chapter in seconds
`media.chapter.friendlyName`	N	string	`chapterStart`	The human-friendly name of the chapter

Quality Data

Request Key	Required	Request Type Key	Set On…	Description
`media.qoe.bitrate`	N	integer	Any	The average bitrate (in bps). The Average Bitrate is computed as a weighted average of all bitrate values related to the play duration that occurred during a playback session.
`media.qoe.droppedFrames`	N	integer	Any	The number of dropped frames in the stream
`media.qoe.framesPerSecond`	N	integer	Any	The number of frames per second
`media.qoe.timeToStart`	N	integer	Any	The amount of time (in milliseconds) passed between when the user hits play and the content loads and starts playing

California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) Parameters

Request Key	Required	Request Type Key	Set On…	Description
`analytics.optOutServerSideForwarding`	N	boolean	`sessionStart`	Set to true when the end user has opted out of their data being shared between Adobe Analytics and other Experience Cloud solutions (e.g., Audience Manager)
`analytics.optOutShare`	N	boolean	`sessionStart`	Set to true when the end user has opted out of their data being federated (e.g., to other Adobe Analytics clients).

Additional Details

visitor.marketingCloudUserId

Pass the Experience Cloud User ID (also known as the MID or MCID) on the sessionStart call by including it inside the params map using the following key: visitor.marketingCloudUserId. This is a useful feature if you already integrate with other Experience Cloud products and have already obtained the MCID.

NOTE

Media Analytics (MA) is integrated with the Experience Cloud family of apps (Adobe Analytics, Audience Manager, Target, and so on). You need an Experience Cloud ID to access these apps. The ECID is what you should use to identify users in most scenarios.

appInstallationId

If you do not pass an appInstallationId value - The MA back-end will no longer generate a MCID, but instead will rely on Adobe Analytics to do this. Adobe’s recommendation is to either send a MCID if available, or an appInstallationId (along with the still mandatory marketingCloudOrgId) so that the Media Collection API generates the MCID and sends it on all calls.
If you do pass appInstallationId value - The MCID can be generated by the MA back-end, if you pass values for appInstallationId and the (required) marketingCloudOrgId parameters. If you do pass appInstallationId yourself, you must persist its value on the client side. It must be unique to the app on a device, and must be persistent for as long as the app is not re-installed.

NOTE

The appInstallationId uniquely identifies the app and the device. It needs to be unique for each app on each device, i.e., two users using the same version of the same app on different devices must each send a different (unique) appInstallationId.

visitor.marketingCloudOrgId

In addition to being necessary for MCID generation when that is not provided, this parameter is also used as the value for the publisher ID (based on which Media Analytics performs federation rule matching.)

Analytics Legacy User ID (aid) and Declared User IDs (customerIDs)

analytics.aid:

The value of this key must be a string that represents the Analytics Legacy User ID

visitor.customerIDs:

The value of this key must be an object of the following format:

"<<insert your ID name here>>": {
  "id": " <<insert your id here>>",
   "authState": <<insert one of 0, 1, 2>>
}

Note that the visitor.customerIDs value can have any number of objects in the presented format.

visitor.aamLocationHint

This parameter indicates which Adobe Audience Manager (AAM) Edge would be hit when Adobe Analytics sends the customer data to Audience Manager. If a value is not entered, the value is null. This is particularly important when end users tend to use their devices in geographically distant locations (e.g., US-East, US-West, Europe, Asia). Otherwise, user data will be spread across multiple AAM Edges.

media.resume

If the app determines that a session was closed and then resumed at a later time, e.g., the user left the video but eventually came back, and the player resumed the video from the playhead where it was stopped, you can send an optional boolean media.resume parameter inside the params bucket of the sessionStart call.

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