INTRODUCING: Interests

Hi @mightyemperor​ -

Yes, we absolutely plan to extend the Interest limit.

For the suggestions you mentioned, currently Interests are individually curated by our editors and internal algorithms. We are continuously working on ways to improve and expand our current selections, so stay tuned for future updates on adding new Interests to the site!

@shape5​ Thanks for the question.  We are using “Interests” because they currently cover both genres and sub-genres, plus some of IMDb’s existing genres are not precisely genres in any case. Finally we have some thoughts of expanding Interests further to include things beyond both genres/subgenres. 

@Tubbs​ This feature is gradually being launched to customers, but once you have it, there is no option to revert back to the old design, sorry.  The page does still list all genres though, both as part of the most relevant row of interests or the classic genres are shown at the bottom of the main interests page after “Western” in the section entitled “Genre lists”

You can also search by genre (and much more) via advanced title search at https://www.imdb.com/search/title/ and further help is available at https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/discover-watch/using-the-advanced-search-feature/GLUEUYWPQNPTEVPU

Hope this helps. 

Of course, my day is not over until I make one complaint:

While both are colloquial terms, whodunit (with 1 n) is much, much more widely used than whodunnit (with 2 ns)

Additionally, the former form is especially widely used in the U.S. and IMDb generally defers to U.S.  conventions in these matters.

@NYVKE​ Thank you.  This feature is being added to the site following a successful launch on apps last year.  We have not yet done as separate announcement as it is only visible to some customers at the moment. 

Hello @OriginalEW, I am a Product Manager at IMDb. We are actively working on a solution to enable customers to add more than 50 interests.