
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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Audio-Only Content Needs Clear Categorization — Current Policy Is Inconsistent and Misleading
I’m requesting that IMDb create a distinct media schema for audio-only content, including audio dramas, radio plays, and podcasts.Currently, only podcasts are officially allowed under IMDb’s 2020 policy update. But in practice, many non-podcast audio dramas have been added anyway—often mislabeled as
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Recent Profile Picture For Celebrities
Hello, my question is: Can You Use A More Recent Profile Picture For Celebrities ??Everyday; I look at the Birthdays, and notice some of them; their profile picture is whenthey were very young. It would be better to have a more recent profile picture.Thank You !!
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“Report this” in the Trivia section needs a “Series spoiler” option
Sometimes an item on the Trivia page for an episode can contain spoilers about events later on in the series, like “When this person does that it foreshadows his dead three episode hence.” Even if the item is place in the spoiler section of the episode’s Trivia page it ruins one’s enjoyment/surprise
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Please add Screenlife genre
Please add Screenlife as an available subgenre. The closest is Found Footage Horror, but Screenlife films are in a category of their own. Thanks!
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Parent Guides: Way to overcrowded and wrong
I and many other utilize the IMDB parent guide often for checking the content of a film or video game. These guides are often useful but for some reason they can be overcrowded by content descriptors that are the same things just worded differently. A prime example of this is the parental guide for
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Suggestions for Upgrading IMDB Categories
Dear IMDB Team,As part of your ongoing efforts to upgrade and improve the platform, I would like to suggest the following:Digital Marketing & Choreographer SectionsThese categories should be officially included in the “Upgrading Software” section better to represent the evolving nature of the entert
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Remove scam film festivals
Why are monthly film festivals permitted on IMDb? They're basically scam events which take a lot of money from naive filmmakers each month and nominate and give awards to a most (or all) of these filmmakers, hoping they will share their wins on social media so they can more money from more filmmaker
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Frequently Credited with Algorithm is way off.
Dear IMDB WIZARDS! Like many others I am being credited with people I've only worked with one time. It was a very low level online tv new media thing. They made eleven episodes and a movie out of it somehow. I've worked with so many more professionals of note. Why am I being stuck with being "freque
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salary question
Hello, I recently submitted salaries for the main cast in a TV show which were all approved but when I filled in the salary field I noticed we can only include numerals, if an actor was paid a salary as a producer and as well as an actor in a TV show and/or movie, how do we those extra details in th
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Implementation of new genres
Back in July 2010, there was a discussion about new genres to be added to IMDb. After a discussion, eventually the following five genres were approved by the IMDb staff: Soap Opera Erotica Awards Show Experimental Lifestyle http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000042/nest/165524169?p=3&d=167577501#167577501
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