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Are Audio Commentaries allowed as titles, and if so are there written guidelines?

I recently found some audio commentaries on the site. I sent a request for deletion for one and was told, to my surprise, that they are eligible titles. I asked for a link to guidelines for submission, and was directed here.

Browsing through these forums I see that podcasts were accepted a year ago, but all the posts I've seen since then, as recently as a couple of weeks ago, say that those are the only audio only accepted productions. I'd like a clear answer as to which is the case. If audio commentaries are allowed could you please make this explicit in the imdb submission guidelines like you have with podcasts? Preferably with instructions about title type and how people should be credited

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4 years ago

Hi peacefulanarchy13 -

We do currently support the listing of Podcast titles, however, general Audio Commentary that is not a podcast is not supported. 

Can you post the IMDb links to the title pages you initially reported for our staff to investigate further?

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4 years ago

Neither of these shouldn’t have been accepted. As far as I know, audio commentary with film critic Nick Pinkerton was made for the UK Blu-ray release of ”Drive a Crooked Road” by Powerhouse Films (it’s not a ”podcast”), and Halloween 5 was made for the US 2012/2014 Blu-ray releases by Anchor Bay/Shout (Audio Commentary with actor Don Shanks and author Justin Beahm). So no, these are not podcasts and quite clearly only released as a part of the Blu-ray releases (sometimes also DVD).

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4 years ago

Some official guidelines mention "DVD extras" as eligible, which could lead to the conclusion that audio commentary is eligible. Perhaps these guidelines could be clarified.

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Hi @Peter_pbn , DVD extras refer to content other than the main feature/show/title.  A commentary, foreign dub, or audio description is just re-versioning of the main content.  I'm pretty sure they mean DVD extras are things like Featurettes (not just an alternate soundtrack to the main feature).  Maybe @Michelle can offer her knowledge on this as well.  However, my experience is that when IMDb changes your query status to "No Status", it usually means that they are finished corresponding on it (otherwise, they would leave the status as "In Progress").