Data Issues & Policy Discussions
This category is managed by our IMDb Content team. IMDb Content is the team that collects and manages the content that makes IMDb authoritative & accurate. We depend upon our users to supply the majority of our content, and will use this space to both answer questions and collect ideas for how to make IMDb more authoritative, accurate, and easy to add to.
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Languages and Countries tags for Poster contributions
We are pleased to announce an update to the image contribution experience. As of today, contributors can tag languages and countries in Posters. You will see the new fields in the image contribution interface once 'Select A Type' is changed to'Poster'. If an image is a poster you can tag it with the
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IMDb Top 300 Data Contributors for 2021 (and Happy New Year 2022 from IMDb)
Included below is our end-of-year message to IMDb's top 300 data contributors for 2021. Thanks again to everyone who contributed to IMDb -- every data contribution helps. If anyone outside of the top 300 would like to know their 2021 (only) live item total and their position in the complete list, pl
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Top 300 Contributor Leaderboard for November
Hi all! Welcome to the final monthly top contributor leaderboard update of the year. The below is the top 300 by approved items submitted throughout November. As ever, the movement column references the previous rankings from the October top contributor leaderboard. Come and join the
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Alternate Title Policy Change
Hi all,We are pleased to announce a change to our alternate title policy listed under the Attribute definitions section of the guide. Please see the below. Our goal at IMDb is to be able to represent to any customer in any locale (speaking language and country) what a title is known as. F
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IMDb Top 300 Data Contributors for 2020
Included below is our end-of-year message to IMDb's top 300 data contributors for 2020. Thanks again to everyone who contributed to IMDb -- every data contribution helps. If anyone outside of the top 300 would like to know their 2020 (only) live item total and position in the complete list, please p
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IMDb Top 300 Data Contributors for 2019
Included below is our end-of-year message to IMDb's top 300 data contributors for 2019. Thanks again to everyone who contributed to IMDb -- every data contribution helps. If anyone outside of the top 300 would like to know their 2019 (only) live item total and position in the complete list, please p
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[Resolved]: Problem Contributing Non-English Characters
Our technical team has now resolved the Contribution Form problem and non-English characters for names and titles are now accepted within the form. We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience!
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Top 300 Contributor Leaderboard for September
Hi everyone! Welcome to the top contributor leaderboard for September! The below is the top 300 contributors by approved items submitted throughout the month. The movement column refers to the previous rankings from the August top contributor leaderboard. Come and join the discussion, we
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Policy update: Audio only podcasts can now be listed on IMDb!
Hey all!We're happy to announce that as of today we'll begin accepting submissions of audio only podcasts (as you know, video ones are already eligible) to expand our data catalog. These are a hugely popular medium and something IMDb users have been asking to include fo
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Top 300 Contributor Leaderboard for October
Hi everyone! It’s time for the top contributor leaderboard for October! The below is the top 300 contributors by approved items submitted throughout the month. The movement column refers to the previous rankings from the September top contributor leaderboard. Come and join the
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