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Type of site | Database |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Owner | Amazon |
| Founder(s) | Col Needham |
| Subsidiaries | Box Office Mojo |
| URL | imdb |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 1990 |
| Current status | Active |
Content license | Proprietary[1] |
IMDb (an initialism for Internet Movie Database)[2] is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. Since 1998, it has been owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon.
The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. As of 2019, IMDb was the 52nd most visited website on the Internet, as ranked by Alexa.[3] As of March 2022,[update] the database contained some 10.1 million titles (including television episodes), 11.5 million person records, and 83 million registered users.[4]
- ^ "Conditions of Use". IMDb. Archived from the original on January 4, 2022. Retrieved January 3, 2022.
- ^ "IMDb | History, Features, & Facts". Encyclopædia Britannica. Archived from the original on November 2, 2020. Retrieved October 27, 2020.
- ^ "Alexa Top 1000 Most Visited Websites". HTMLSTRIP. Retrieved February 12, 2023.
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