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Wednesday, July 5th, 2023 4:08 AM

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Creating an Imdb vanity link for a films page.

Hi

I'm the producer/Director of a feature film and I would like to start forwarding the IMDb link of the films page to various sales agents festivals etc. However unlike a personal page, I cannot seem to find an option to create a vanity link for a film page on IMDb Pro.

Does an option exist to do this as I would really prefer not to send the long jumbled up sequence of numbers, letters and symbols that is currently the film's IMDb page link. It looks so sloppy and unprofessional.

Thank you

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@alanwking Thanks for the feedback.  Unfortunately vanity URLs are only available for names at the moment.  However, from your description of the links, you might be overcomplicating what needs to be shared -- all that is required is imdb.com/title/<title ID>/ -- any other letters/symbols in the URL are for internal tracking purposes and can be removed.  For example,  Casablanca (1942) is simply https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034583/ 

You can obtain the URL from your browser or via the share icon in the upper right of any title page (highlighted in purple below) and then use "Copy link" in the menu (red highlight), removing the "?ref_=ext_shr_lnk" portion:

Further information is available at https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/general-information/how-do-i-link-to-a-specific-page-on-your-site/GTRTF6K8UA9JP9QQ 

Hope this helps. 

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Hi Col thank you for the reply, although I would much prefer a Vanity URL option to a sequence of numbers, I've now done this and it looks a little bit neater.

Maybe IMDb could think about an option for a vanity URL for Film pages heading into the future. 

Many thanks

Alan

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@alanwking​ Thanks, it is also worth noting that in most email clients, you can mention the title by name and yet link the text to the actual page without anyone needing to see the URL itself, just as in: Casablanca (1942)

We have converted your post into an idea thread so other customers can comment and vote on the suggestion. 

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@Col_Needham​ Thank you for your help.