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Why is audio only content listed?
To quote Jonathan Rigby on facebook,
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Hey, actor friends! Want to increase your TV credits on that wacky resource they call IMDb? Simple - just do a few audio dramas, for Big Finish or some other such specialist company.
Yes, they've reached peak insanity over there, now adding audio dramas to an already error-strewn site and calling them - get this - 'TV mini-series'. Podcasts are plain 'television series' and audio commentaries are 'video documentaries'. The fine distinction between sound and vision seems to have eluded them entirely. A pandemonium of nonsense and misinformation (even worse misinformation than there is already) can be the only outcome.
I wonder if they're going to employ someone to add every single radio play broadcast since 1922? Maybe they'll be rebranding them as - I don't know - TV specials.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12115616/reference...
Various audio only content that I've tried deleting.
Everything here but Shada, Real Time and Judge Dredd vs Death-
https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?companies=co0116559
Blockbuster -
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12526872/
Why are radio/podcasts listed here/
Marco
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4 years ago
For reference: Here's the announcement regarding this: https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/data-issues-policy-discussions/policy-update-audio-only-podcasts-can-now-be-listed-on-imdb/5f4a7c7d8815453dba06d6b9
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Michelle
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4 years ago
Hi MxGeorgeWhite -
As per the announcement Marco linked to above, while we now allow the listing of podcast titles on the site, we are not yet listing broadcast radio shows or audio book titles.
If you encounter any audio titles on the site that you believe are ineligible (if they are not a podcast), then I encourage you to report them for removal through our Contact Form.
Cheers!
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