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Tuesday, September 19th, 2023 9:20 PM

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TELL ME, ANYONE...HOW CAN I GET MY HEAD  SHOT ON MY IMDB posting without having to [pay $20.00 per month? How do the dead movie stars have theirs on? Do they have an estate that pays every year or forever..What about us poor never never-discovered talent? Is there a special I can negotiate..SAG-IMDB gives me free posting..But what good is it if you can't see my face? listing

Any suggestions or do I leave instructions to pay through the nose after I'm gone?  Thanks

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EAV: This may sound sarcastic or unhelpful, but I actually mean it literally.

If you want to get your picture on your IMDb page without having to pay for it ... you should become really famous. You might not need to reach a George Clooney or Denzel Washington level of fame, but still pretty famous. If a person is famous enough, IMDb will pick up a photo from one of its suppliers and use it as the person's main photo. Same for the deceased movie stars -- IMDb uses photos from its picture suppliers like MPTV Images. 

But for everyone else, if they want their picture on their name page, they will probably have to pay for it. See https://help.imdb.com/article/imdbpro/membership-benefits/which-imdbpro-subscription-is-right-for-me/GH39495X7KWY4PMP# for the guide to the IMDbPro Premium subscription.

I hope this helps.

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Hey Gromit82...Thank you for your explanation. I knew that IMDB scams us little guys/girls..I could never get a straight answer from them about other things too. 

So, the dead movie stars have a built-in IMDb legacy while us no body's pay the tab. 

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Yes, famous people are more likely to receive this treatment than lesser-known people, but as we know, there are unclaimed IMDb name pages for a whole bunch of people at various levels of fame, whereby each of those unclaimed pages have a unique placeholder photograph occupying the primary image slot. So, it is kind of like a matter of luck.

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So, how do get "Lucky" Do I buy a few months? or so? I've done that... 

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Ah, there is no fixed way to "get lucky", as it were. A month or two ago, there was somebody complaining about why there is no profile picture on IMDb for new Chancellor of Germany, treating it like some kind of conspiracy (due to the fact that the IMDb name page for the President of Russia isn't photoless), but really the particular German official's tenure thus far hasn't been nearly as long as his predecessor or other more recognizable world leaders. As near as I can tell, and I probably shouldn't really point this out but I will anyway, being the subject of an IMDb Poll is another way to increase the chances of being alleviated the supposed disappointment of having to pay for IMDbPro in order to claim an IMDb name page for the purpose of uploading and managing the content of the page's featured images.

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Well, you can't, EAV. Otherwise you probably would've already done it. Some of the images on IMDb name pages are non-IMDbPro and were uploaded by IMDb's image partners. Images that were uploaded directly to IMDb title pages prior to 2014 or so do usually automatically show up in the IMDb name pages of people tagged in them. On rare occasions, bugs or experimental changes to the display logic of the IMDb image gallery system have caused images to work the in same way as the pre-2014 images despite having been uploaded in times afterward. You're more than welcome to supply for reference a photograph of yourself here on this thread, but there is no guarantee that an image partner will adopt it as part of his or her contributions to IMDb. Also, once something like that happens, it is sort of permanent, and to override whatever image happens to show up in the primary image slot, you would have to maintain an active page claim, which requires ongoing paid subscription to IMDbPro. The IMDb staff are not allowed to make adjustments to these non-IMDbPro images showing up on IMDb name pages, unless the matter is neither frivolous nor petty.

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@jeorj_euler​ Well, I guess I'll keep on singing "I'm the greatest star, but No One Knows It.." from Funny Girl..

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Why don't you state your full name and provide a public domain high-resolution photograph of yourself?