
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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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. For example
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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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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 for some time. For the timebein
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Contributor tips: Magic URLs
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
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Top 300 Contributor Leaderboard for August
Come and join the discussion. We appreciate all of your feedback on the leaderboard! ranknicktotalmovement1inespape-1280,778↔️2Gabrielfox111,032↔️3matthias_metzger95,717⬆️4formulakaz72,291⬇️5Woodyanders44,388⬆️6cinelamour43,622↔️711433Sthlm27,722⬆️8harrisonjiang-7817523,490⬆️9KaramXXV22,207⬇️10thebr
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Contributor tips - Advanced title search
Hi all! Welcome to another instalment of the contributor tips series. These posts to let you know about handy contributor tips that you may not otherwise have been aware of, which can help you out when submitting to IMDb. Following on from our first post about magic URLs, today I’m focusing on using
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