NewsDesk FAQ

The news section surfaces articles on IMDb relating to a person, title, or company - the articles are provided to IMDb by third party providers such as Variety, Deadline, The Wrap, and more. 

The articles we display are only short teasers (usually one or two paragraphs), and will include a link to the full article on the external website. 

It's available on IMDb.com, IMDbPro and using the IMDb mobile applications:

IMDb.com

IMDbPro

IMDb App

Names, titles, and companies mentioned in the short teaser we receive are automatically linked to the corresponding IMDb page based on certain logic.

Occasionally, the wrong page might be linked to the article (usually where it shares the same name) and needs correcting.

You can reach out to our customer support team to correct or remove these links.

Additionally, we can only link news articles to a page where the name is referenced in the short article we've received. This means, if an article mentions a persons name, but the short teaser we have on IMDb doesn't - then we're unable to link these together.

If the link to a third party news article no longer works, you can let our customer support team know and they can either update the link, or remove the article. 

If you disagree with the content of a news article, or believe it to be incorrect - you'll need to speak with the news provider directly. IMDb support staff are unable to make changes or take the articles down in these circumstances. 

A NewsDesk Partner sends IMDb their RSS 2.0 feed containing their site or publication's articles. IMDb publishes an excerpt of each article from the feeds.

IMDb removes the HTML, performs smart, elevant linking with our names and titles on IMDb, and publishes the headlines and the content of the excerpts on the linked IMDb pages.

The benefits of becoming a NewsDesk Partner are:

• Your article headlines can appear on the relevant people and title pages on IMDb
  
  
• Your articles appear on the News page for that person, character, or title
  
  
• Your article remains as a permalink on the site
  
  
• Each of these instances will have a link back to your homepage or the relevant article
  
  
• Your logo will appear on the NewsDesk Partner page and permalink page
  
  
• An incredible opportunity to deep-link across large tracts of our site getting your articles in front of exactly the right audience

We are not accepting applications for additional content providers at this time.

If we begin accepting applications in the future, we will post it to the site, so please check back for further updates. We appreciate your interest.

Here's what you will need to do:

• Send us your RSS 2.0 or Atom feed with the standard feed elements -- headlines (title), timestamp (pubDate), Partner name (channel), the article (description), and the referral link back to the full article (link).
  
  
• We also ask that you include at least 150 words (can be longer) in the article.
  
  
• We are hoping for several articles per day from Partners, but don't worry, we are also interested in more relevant, timely stories than just a flurry of pieces.

The only catch, if you want to call it that, is that we retain the right to continue to publish the text from articles we've received even if our associations ends. We do this so that our users can still find the article excerpt they read, particularly if they've sent that link to a friend, bookmarked it, etc. We will continue to link to you from the article in the manner mentioned previously.

For more details, please read the NewsDesk Terms and Conditions. 

All NewsDesk Partners need to agree to the NewsDesk Terms and Conditions.

We will not publish stories with a word count lower than 60 words, and an association with a Partner who was providing less than the requested word count would be less than ideal and may be discontinued.

If the RSS feed changes for your news source, you'll need to contact a member of staff to correct this for you - this can be done via the contact form.

Please make sure to include the new feed so a member of the team can make this change for you.