Professional Studies: How Does IMDb Work?

As part of my professional studies research, I have researched into how IMDB works and how to be credited for your own work for an online presence.

Firstly, IMDB stands for, Internet Movie Data Base, giving you the vague idea of what can be found within the website.You are able to find any creditable movie and much information about the movie you are looking for. As for non-commercial use, the website is free to use. To sign up a paid membership, you can use the IMDb Pro Website for a monthly price of $20 or if you pay annually, $12.50 ($149.99 a year). A registration in order to rate movies and write reviews is completely free.

Although any member is able to change and add information, similar to wikipedia, the website has consistent checks to ensure it has as accurate information as possible. If you add information to the website, it doesn't become public until staff has processed and checked the information given.The IMDb site claims that their source of information includes on screen credits, press kits, official bios, autobiographies, and interviews.