Data Issues & Policy Discussions

Included below is our end-of-year message to IMDb's top data contributors for 2024. Introduction and Thanks Welcome to the 30th edition of our annual letter of thanks and celebration for IMDb’s data contributor community and for all our customers worldwide. I am IMDb’s Founder & CEO. IMDb launched i

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

Included below is our end-of-year message to IMDb's top 250 data contributors for 2016. Thanks again to everyone who contributed to IMDb -- every data contribution helps. If anyone outside of the top 250 would like to know their 2016 (only) live item total and position in the complete list, please p

Included below is our end-of-year message to IMDb's top 250 data contributors for 2017. Thanks again to everyone who contributed to IMDb -- every data contribution helps. If anyone outside of the top 250 would like to know their 2017 (only) live item total and position in the complete list, please p

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

Included below is my end-of-year message to IMDb's top 250 data contributors for 2015. Thanks again to everyone who contributed to IMDb in our 25th anniversary year -- every data contribution helps! If anyone outside of the top 250 would like to know their 2015 (only) live item total and position in

Included below is IMDb's founder and CEO Col Needham's end-of-year message to IMDb's top 250 data contributors for 2014. Thanks again to the top 250 and also to everyone who contributed to IMDb last year -- every data contribution helps! If anyone outside of the top 250 would like to know their 2014

In 2023 IMDb celebrated the 25th anniversary of becoming a subsidiary of Amazon.com back in 1998. We were jointly Amazon’s first acquisition so myself and several IMDb team members are among Amazon’s longest serving employees. The tradition of sending this letter began in 1995, and for an interestin

We are pleased to announce our new Lifetime Contributor Badges. For the first time ever, all IMDb users (including yourself) can now see how many contributions you have across 8 different categories such as new titles, filmography, trivia etc. Each badge has gold, silver and bronze classifications w

Hi all! This is just a quick post to let you know about a handy contributor tip that you may not otherwise have been aware of which helps navigate our submission systems when submitting from Desktop. Have you heard about magic URLs? They are a really useful way to make submissions quicker and easier