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Picture in picture total duration

Last update: May 15, 2026

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

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The Picture in picture total duration metric reports the cumulative time, in seconds, that the viewer spent in picture-in-picture during a session. The backend sums every interval between a picture-in-picture state-start and the matching state-end event.

How this metric is calculated

The media backend sums elapsed time across all picture-in-picture intervals during the session. The metric is reported on the close call. Analysis Workspace shows the value as HH:MM:SS; Data Feeds, Data Warehouse, and Reporting APIs show the value in seconds.

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