Not a video/film!

At the moment IMDb only allows Podcasts, not all audio only listings. For example, radio plays and serials are not accepted.

One older thread:

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/data-issues-policy-discussions/audio-dramas-audio-plays/5f4a7a3b8815453dba9ec21d

Based on a few threads I have seen in these forums, IMDb opened a can of worms with this ”podcast” thing. Now every ”audio” thing seems to Podcast and even the IMDb staff can’t give proper guidelines.

You can’t add the 1938 ”War of the Worlds” radio drama, but if you somehow make it a ”podcast”, it’s all good. You know  what, perhaps if I add it to Youtube...

We're choking on our own red tape.  Internet MOVIE Database....should be easy enough.  I give up.  Seems to me audio-only of ANY kind should be relegated to https://www.TheAudioDB.com.

The way I see it, all radio dramas/serials (and similar ”audio only” programs) BEFORE the internet - and probably before the invention of the podcast also (when was that exactly - probably not before the 2000s?) - shouldn’t be accepted. The old rule of where the audio program was first, originally released should be the starting point. Whether it was ”podcasted” later on is irrelevant (certainly by putting the audio to Youtube doesn’t count).

The irony of course is that it probably would be much easier to add a more traditional radio (audio) dramas/serials to IMDb, since you’ve actors with characters, directors, writers and producers.. just like in the normal film or a TV episode. But opening that can would bring a lot of work to IMDb data editors. I mean, a lot.

Yes in some points I agree with you it not looks like a film or a video I mean there is not logic behind it but you can not deny there efforts here that they are doing.