Data Issues & Policy Discussions

Hi, Throughout 2019, our team has been working on features that ensure we can support the contribution, vetting, storage and publication of content for our global entertainment audience. We have, to date, launched:- IMDb Answers, which surfaces high-value content that is missing from IMDb for multip

Today (March 6, 2020), the team has extended our Multi-lingual plot contribution feature (referenced in this post -> https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/contribution-beta-opportunity-multi-lingual-plot-outlines ) to all contributors. From today, all contributors are able to submit multi-lingual

We're pleased to announce a simplification to the contribution guidelines for alternate titles.We recently upgraded our systems so that the following attributes are no longer needed to perform the correct character encoding. We have therefore replaced all these attributes with imdb display title (or

Hi all,Just a quick announcement regarding Script & Continuity credits listed on IMDb.In our continued efforts to accurately reflect the work of those in the industry and expand our ability to display data in the most authentic way - we'll be moving a large number of credits relating to Script & Con

We are pleased to announce, starting today we have added Name Suggestion Search to IMDb’s Filmography contribution form. As you begin entering a name, we will now provide suggestions based on what you’ve typed and the context of the submission (for example, for the TV Show “Game of Thrones”, as you

Today, Wednesday 15th November 2017, we will begin the roll-out of changes to the types of linking formats supported within our contribution interfaces. Currently within our contribution interfaces we support two types of linking. They are:- [link=nm1234567] for names and [link=tt1234567] for titles

Included below is our end-of-year message to IMDb's top 250 data contributors for 2018. Thanks again to everyone who contributed to IMDb -- every data contribution helps. If anyone outside of the top 250 would like to know their 2018 (only) live item total and position in the complete list, please p

Hi all, Quick heads up for you all that due to routine maintenance, our contribution system will be unavailable for a short time today (25th October) - during this time you may receive an error when trying to submit any updates via our submission interface. This maintenance shouldn't take long, at w

Hi all, Quick heads up for you all that due to routine maintenance, our contribution system will be unavailable for a short time today (25th October) - during this time you may receive an error when trying to submit any updates via our submission interface. This maintenance shouldn't take long, at w

We’d like to announce a clarification to the contribution guidelines for companies and company filmographies.Companies should not have separate IMDb pages for each region they have distribution or sales credits in. If a certain company has distribution or sales credits in more than one region, then