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Streamlining the "Type" section for the New Title page

I've seen would-be contributors on various social media platforms complain that adding a new title to IMDb is confusing. Streamlining the Type section could make things easier. I've added thousands of titles, and sometimes my brain still glitches at this section.

My suggestion:

Under Type, we see two categories.

Single Work

Series

If the user clicks on Single Work, there's a dropdown menu with the following choices:

- Feature movie

- Short movie

- TV special

- Unaired TV pilot

- User-generated video (on a platform such as YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or X)

- Made-for-home video (VHS, DVD, Blu-ray or other physical media)

- Commercial

- Music Video

- Video Game

- Audio Book

Under Series we see the following choices:

- TV series (broadcast or subscription-based platform)

- TV mini-series (broadcast or subscription-based platform)

- User-generated video series (on a platform such as YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or X)

- Video channel (typically user-generated and often contain series which may be listed separately)

- Podcast series (i.e., any series that is also, or exclusively, available in podcast feeds)

- Movie serial (typically a series of movie shorts that appeared in theaters in the first half of the 20th century)

This would help simplify a process that is complicated by its nature, as these categories of content are difficult to define and distinguish from one another.

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19 days ago

By the way, feature movie and short movie are preferable to feature film and short film because film implies it appears on celluloid, while movie does not.

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Under Series we see the following choices:

-Movie serial (typically a series of movie shorts that appeared in theaters in the first half of the 20th century)

FWIW, IMDb considers serials (movie serial is not a word AFAIK) to be one feature, not a series: https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/title-formatting/G56U5ERK7YY47CQB?ref_=helpsrall#