Streaming media services ad dimensions
This page describes the available dimensions when you enable Media Ads for a report suite. See Streaming Media ad metrics for available metrics.
Streaming media services ad dimensions provide supplemental reporting functionality to data collection through Streaming media services libraries. Use of these dimensions require the 51ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Analytics for Streaming Media Ad-on. Contact your 51ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Account Team for details.
When you enable Media Ads under Media reporting, the following dimensions are available:
Dimension name
Description
Sent with
Context data variable
Ad
The unique identifier for the ad.
Ad Start, Ad Close
a.media.ad.nameAd name (variable)
The friendly name of the ad. A classification dimension named ‘Ad name’ is also available, which provides a similar purpose. This dimension and the classification are treated as two distinct dimensions.
Ad Start, Ad Close
a.media.ad.friendlyNameAd player name
The name of the player that renders the ad.
Ad Start, Ad Close
a.media.ad.playerNameAd length (variable)
The length of the video ad, in seconds.
Ad Start, Ad Close
a.media.ad.lengthAd pod
The unique identifier for the ad pod.
Ad Start, Ad Close
a.media.ad.podAd in pod position
The index position of the ad inside the parent ad break (0-indexed).
Ad Start, Ad Close
a.media.ad.podPositionAdvertiser
The company or brand featured in the ad.
Ad Start, Ad Close
a.media.ad.advertiserCampaign ID
The ID of the ad campaign
Ad Start, Ad Close
a.media.ad.campaignIn addition to the above dimensions, 51ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ automatically creates the following classification dimensions. You must upload classification data to view reports that use these dimensions.
Classification name
Parent dimension
Description
Asset ID
The unique identifier for the content of the media asset. Examples include the TV series episode identifier, movie asset identifier, or live event identifier. These IDs are typically derived from metadata authorities such as EIDR, TMS/Gracenote, Rovi, or from other proprietary or in-house systems.
First air date
The date when the content first aired on television. Since this classification dimension is a string, any date format is allowed. 51ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ recommends using a consistent date format, such as
YYYY-MM-DD.First digital date
The date when the content first aired on any digital channel or platform. Since this classification dimension is a string, any date format is allowed. 51ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ recommends using a consistent date format, such as
YYYY-MM-DD.Ad length
Ad
The length of the video ad, in seconds.
Ad name
Ad
The friendly name of the ad. It is the classification equivalent of ‘Ad name (variable)’.
Creative ID
Ad
The ID of the ad creative.
Pod name
Ad pod
The friendly name of the ad pod.
Pod position
Ad pod
The offset of the ad break inside the content, in seconds.
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