Data Issues & Policy Discussions

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

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 discussion. We

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. For example

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

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

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!

August top contributor leaderboard

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 for some time. For the timebein

September top contributor leaderboard

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