Pause start

The pause start event signals that the user paused playback. There is no separate resume event; send a Play event when playback resumes.

Web SDK

Call sendEvent with eventType: "media.pauseStart":

alloy("sendEvent", {
  xdm: {
    eventType: "media.pauseStart",
    mediaCollection: {
      sessionID: "{sid}",
      playhead: 30
    }
  }
});

Mobile SDK

Call trackPause when the user pauses playback.

iOS (Swift)

tracker.trackPause()

Android (Kotlin)

tracker.trackPause()

Roku (BrightScript)

Call sendMediaEvent with eventType: "media.pauseStart":

m.aepSdk.sendMediaEvent({
    "xdm": {
        "eventType": "media.pauseStart",
        "mediaCollection": {
            "playhead": 30
        }
    }
})

Media Edge API

Call the pauseStart endpoint:

curl -X POST "https://edge.adobedc.net/ee/va/v1/pauseStart?configId={datastreamID}" \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
  "events": [{
    "xdm": {
      "eventType": "media.pauseStart",
      "mediaCollection": {
        "sessionID": "{sid}",
        "playhead": 30
      },
      "timestamp": "YYYY-08-20T22:41:40+00:00"
    }
  }]
}'

Media SDK

Call trackPause when the user pauses playback:

tracker.trackPause();

Media Collection API

Send a pauseStart POST to the events endpoint:

{
  "playerTime": { "playhead": 30, "ts": 1699523820000 },
  "eventType": "pauseStart"
}