This page covers the Artist reporting dimension. See Artist for how to collect this variable.
The Artist dimension reports the performing artist for audio content (for example, "Crested Larks"). Use it to break out engagement on music or podcast catalogs by performer.
How this dimension is populated
Artist is set by the player at session start for audio content.
Reporting system
Source
Adobe Analytics
Automatically collected from context data
a.media.artist when Audio Metadata is enabled.Customer Journey Analytics
Data feeds
videoaudioartistAudience Manager
c_contextdata.a.media.artistDimension items
Each item is the literal artist name reported at session start. Use a stable, canonical name per artist so data does not fragment across formatting variants.
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