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Author

Last update: May 15, 2026

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This page covers the Author reporting dimension. See Author for how to collect this variable.

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The Author dimension reports the author of the content (for example, "Eleanor Clementine"). Primarily used for audiobooks, but also valid for podcasts whose host or producer is the relevant attribution.

How this dimension is populated

Author is set by the player at session start for audio content.

Reporting system
Source
Adobe Analytics
Automatically collected from context data a.media.author when Audio Metadata is enabled.
Customer Journey Analytics
mediaReporting.sessionDetails.author
Data feeds
videoaudioauthor
Audience Manager
c_contextdata.a.media.author

Dimension items

Each item is the literal author name reported at session start.

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