Also visible on the public site is something called a STARMETER ranking. IMDB already collects fees from industry professionals through a portal called, where professionals can manage their personal profiles on IMDB. Since that time, however, has been bought and sold and bought again by Warner Brothers, and now Amazon, with a clear bias towards certain movies.
Initially, was a simple site not run by conglomerates with their own advertorial or promotional agendas. For more than 15 years, IMDB has attempted to list all the credits in movies and television, to partial success. IMDB is short for Internet Movie Database. What’s driving these changes is even more concerning than the numerical changes, themselves. In other words, 1 is good, and 10 Million is bad. The higher the number the worse the ranking. This is essentially what is happening to thousands, and possibly millions, of hard working entertainment industry professionals, who woke up to find their “Starmeter” ratings on had lowered by thousands, sometimes millions, of points.
There is nothing like waking up in the morning and being blackmailed.