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Pause events

Last update: May 12, 2026

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The Pause events metric counts every distinct media.pauseStart event received during a session, including multiple pauses within the same session. Pair it with Total pause duration to derive the average pause length, and with Paused impacted streams to count sessions that paused at least once.

How this metric is calculated

The media backend increments mediaReporting.sessionDetails.pauseCount on every media.pauseStart event. The metric is reported on the close call.

Reporting system
Source
Adobe Analytics
Automatically collected from context data a.media.pauseCount when Media Core is enabled.
Customer Journey Analytics
mediaReporting.sessionDetails.pauseCount
Data feeds
event_list, post_event_list (see event.tsv lookup)
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