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Filtering out Adverts and Commercials in the Acting Credits

I was looking at the acting credits of Margot Robbie and I notice that perfume adverts appear in her filmography. I'm sure similar types of adverts appear in the filmographies of other actors.

At the moment, these adverts are classed as "Short" or "Video", but filtering out these title types would also remove legitimate short films and straight-to-video titles.

Could IMDB introduce a "commercial/advert" title type, or some other distinguishing marker so we could filter out these sorts of titles from a person's filmography?

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Before this idea implemented (or not), here is "How to" filter out adverts (commercials):

1️⃣ At the top of the name page, click on "All Topics";

2️⃣ In the popped-up window, click on "by Keyword"

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3️⃣ When the page of ATS (Advanced title search) loaded, input the keyword "!commercial" and press Enter:

NOTE: The exclamation mark is for filtering out.

 

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Thanks for the response.

The keywords option does not filter out the titles with those keywords. It filters everything else out. The opposite of what I want it to do.

Regards.

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Thanks @Scott_A_D, I corrected the guide, it filters out now.

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