DocumentationAnalyticsStreaming media services guide

Paused impacted streams

Last update: June 4, 2026

CREATED FOR:

  • User
  • Admin

The Paused impacted streams metric counts sessions in which the viewer paused at least once. It is a session-level boolean. Multiple pauses within the same session count as one impacted stream. Use it to measure the share of sessions that experienced any pause; for total pause volume, use Pause events.

How this metric is calculated

The media backend sets this flag the first time a pause start event is received during the session. The metric is reported on the close call.

Reporting system
Source
Adobe Analytics
Automatically collected from context data a.media.pause when Media Core is enabled.
Customer Journey Analytics
xdm.mediaReporting.sessionDetails.hasPauseImpactedStreams
Data feeds
event_list, post_event_list (see event.tsv lookup)
Audience Manager
N/A
recommendation-more-help
media-analytics-help