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Picture in picture counts

Last update: May 15, 2026

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This page covers the Picture in picture counts reporting metric. See Picture in picture for how to collect this variable.

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The Picture in picture counts metric reports the number of times the viewer entered picture-in-picture playback during a session. Each picture-in-picture state-start event increments the count. Pair with Streams impacted by picture in picture for session-level boolean rollups and with Picture in picture total duration for total time in state.

How this metric is calculated

The media backend increments the count field in the pictureInPicture entry of mediaReporting.states[] on every picture-in-picture state-start event. The metric is reported on the close call.

Reporting system
Source
Adobe Analytics
Automatically collected from context data a.media.states.pictureinpicture.count when Player State Tracking is enabled.
Customer Journey Analytics
mediaReporting.states[] entry where name = "pictureInPicture", field count
Data feeds
event_list, post_event_list (see event.tsv lookup)
Audience Manager
c_contextdata.a.media.states.pictureinpicture.count
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