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Launch Announcement: Music Video Title Type
Hi,
Following our launch of Podcasts last month. We are happy to announce that as of today, we have fully launched a new title type for Music Videos.
From today, there is a new option available within our New Title Form -> https://contribute.imdb.com/updates?update=title for Music Video.
![](https://prod-content-care-community-cdn.sprinklr.com/26653d1b-7bb8-47bf-ac21-90f16f2e4b48/RetroAddsMusicVideo-07e1b62e-fda3-43ee-88b9-b8312012e7c5-2084858177.png)
We have also made changes across all IMDb & IMDbPro web and app experiences to ensure that titles of this type have the correct type displayed, and that music videos are discoverable via search features. For example:-
Adele: Easy on Me → https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15567264/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
![](https://prod-content-care-community-cdn.sprinklr.com/26653d1b-7bb8-47bf-ac21-90f16f2e4b48/AdeleMusicVideo-e5206280-a63f-4e91-bd9d-211342fa1243-684413932.png)
Credits for Music Videos are displayed appropriate on their pages e.g. on Adele’s page → https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2233157/ you see:-
![](https://prod-content-care-community-cdn.sprinklr.com/26653d1b-7bb8-47bf-ac21-90f16f2e4b48/AdeleFilmo-ccbee4a4-be6c-435c-88b0-73288932bfc4-160444949.png)
Music Videos are discoverable via our Advance Title Search -> https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=music_video
We have updated the associated submission guide -> https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/submitting-podcasts-commercials-or-music-videos/G75CJL7UUDSWV7U5#
Please do let me know if you have any questions, or spot any issues.
Cheers,
Rachel
Marco
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3 years ago
This is a link to podcast series and episodes, so you might want to change that. :)
Podcasts and music videos are currently not a separate category in the "jump to" section of one's name page. Are there plans to change that? I think this would be useful for the customers of IMDb.
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mbmb
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3 years ago
Existing titles are manually converted right? I checked some music videos I added, only a few of them were converted to new type.
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bderoes
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3 years ago
I'm not conversant with these titles, but should the 4 video shorts below be converted to Music Videos? And will the heading become "music video" instead of "short" someday?
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nicmos
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3 years ago
Just by the way: There is also a mixture of short film and music videos, in which several songs are played:
3 examples:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15909200/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119194/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090793/
This would have to be regulated exactly. Thanks.
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mbmb
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3 years ago
Title correction form's "3. Tips for Changing title type submissions" section was updated after Podcast title type, it could use an update now too.
Also this page could use an update as well: https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/discover-watch/how-do-you-decide-if-a-title-is-a-film-a-tv-movie-or-a-miniseries/GKUQEMEFSM54T2KT
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nicmos
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3 years ago
A little addition to the guidelines:
https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/submitting-podcasts-commercials-or-music-videos/G75CJL7UUDSWV7U5#
The genre short should be added. Many new entries no longer have a short genre! Music videos are actually short films too, or not?
You could also add it automatically..+genre music (possible +genre short) +keyword music-video. Otherwise too many mistakes will be made.
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3 years ago
Found kind of a bug (I think)
New title form always says "We already have titles which are similar to" because it looks like it treats the title type (Music Video) as part of the title. Screenshot:
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mbmb
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3 years ago
I think this is overlooked?
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mbmb
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3 years ago
I see some converted titles that show "Music Video" in title page but when you click Edit Page it still has (V) in full title name. Weird.
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mbmb
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3 years ago
Well, it looks like their way of solving "Music Video short" display on name page was to mass delete Short genre from all titles in Music Video title type.
A problem with this is that everyone has a "Declined" item in their contribution history now for every music video they added before this new title type. Let's say someone has added 100 music videos, you gave them 100 declined items in their contibution history today or added 1000 or more etc., they got 1000 declined items in their history in one day. Doesn't that hurt our accuracy rating so badly?
Someone without a fault, who was adding something correctly by following guidelines, gets tons of declines in their history because staff mass deletes a genre.
I think this a bad way of handling it. And I agree with @nicmos above that they should have Short genre actually. Why solve a display issue by removing valid data?
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jochen_bauer
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3 years ago
Great work! I wanted to suggest something like that. I love to have music videos in the imdb, but wanted them separated from the other productions. So my further request is to separate them from the movie and TV lists completely.
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MarkC
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3 years ago
Hi folks,
Thanks for all the feedback so far on the new Music Videos feature and help guide updates. I'll try and respond to some of the points made above. Let me know if I miss something that hasn't already been answered.
Going in reverse order...
@jochen_bauer - great suggestion on having separate views, we'll have a think about how that could work.
@daniel_francis_gardecki By "Official trailers for albums or singles" we mean things like the Official Trailer for PJ Harvey: A Dog Called Money, which is practically a short film promoting the album, directed by Award-winning photographer Seamus Murphy. @mbmb is correct in terms of why this is different from Movie or TV trailers, which can be associated with an actual title page and therefore should not be uploaded as titles in their own right.
@bderoes I'll get Opera added as an explicit example for what should not be submitted as a Music Video. As for "concert performance (no costumes/sets/action, just singers at podiums)", that should be covered under the guideline for live concert, which is already referenced in the help guide as not suitable for Music Video. Let me know if you feel the word 'live' is too proscriptive to cover the examples you are concerned about. We could always drop that word and just state "Concerts" if you feel that is clearer.
@mbmb For ease of reading, we try to focus the genre definitions on what they should be used for more than what they should not. However, I will look to see if we can add a note to the Short genre, perhaps for a limited period, while folks adjust to the changes.
@Peter_pbn Thanks for providing the Latin Grammy definitions for Short vs Long Music Video. It's a useful distinction. We've tried to capture in the help guide the intent of Music Video being reserved for Short-form music videos under that definition, by stating that it should be used "for a single song or musical number". We do not want to proscribe specific lengths, since some music videos are longer than movies. For example, there is a 24 hour long music video for Pharrell Williams' Happy. The Pharrell Williams example is also why we are not adopting the short-form versus long-form labelling as part of our guidance, because some music videos are really long, but they are still legitimately Music Videos for a single song.
Hope this helps!
Let me know if I've missed anything, or if you have further thoughts on how we can improve the guidance around this new title type.
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jasu_keisa
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90 Points
3 years ago
Hey!
I've been a regular IMDb-contributor for a number of years and I recently noticed that when music videos were in their separate category before (when, for example, looking at certain actors filmography), but just now IMDb has put the music videos under Movie-section and I wonder why. Same with podcast series.
Sincerely, JustinDuck
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aicardigianluca
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3 years ago
I don't know if it was caused by the recent introduction of new title types like Music Video, but I noticed some of them and Podcast Series now get categorized under a person's Movie listing, which is clearly incorrect. Here's an example from Kirsten Dunst's page.
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gary_dodson
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3 years ago
Why are music videos listed under movie credits? This is obviously a mistake and has started recently across the board. Will it be corrected?
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