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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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gromit82
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1 year ago
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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jeorj_euler
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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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