Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed that collect media metrics on computing devices. An example apparatus includes a permission collector to determine a permission level of a meter, and in response to the determination, request a permission to access media data of an application programming interface (API), a session identifier to determine if a media session notification is available, a session analyzer to, in response to determining the media session notification is available, package media session data associated with the media session notification, and a data manager communicatively coupled to the apparatus to obtain foreground information and parse the packaged media session data and the obtained foreground information.