Whois & Analysis for imdb.com

IMDb (an acronym for Internet Movie Database) 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.

A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images.

These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations.

The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and the art form that is the result of it.

Films can vary in genre, style, length and format, and they are typically produced for entertainment, education, cultural expression, or commercial purposes.

They are usually shown in theaters, on television, or via streaming platforms.

In communication, media are the outlets or tools used to store and deliver content; semantic information or subject matter of which the media contains.

The term generally refers to components of the mass media communications industry, such as print media, publishing, the news media, photography, cinema, broadcasting (radio and television), digital media, and advertising.

A television show, TV program, or simply a TV show, is the general reference to any content produced for viewing on a television set that is broadcast via over-the-air, satellite, or cable.

This includes content made by television broadcasters and content made for broadcasting by film production companies.

It excludes breaking news, advertisements, or trailers that are typically placed between shows.

Television shows are most often scheduled for broadcast well ahead of time and appear on electronic guides or other TV listings, but streaming services often make them available for viewing anytime.

The content in a television show is produced by one of two production methodologies: live taped shows such as variety and news magazine shows shot on a television studio stage or sporting events (all considered linear productions) The other production model includes animation and a variety of film productions ranging from movies to series.

Shows not produced on a television studio stage are usually contracted or licensed to be made by appropriate production companies.

Popular culture (also called mass culture or pop culture) is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of practices, beliefs, artistic output (also known as popular art or mass art) and objects that are dominant or prevalent in a society at a given point in time.

Popular culture also encompasses the activities and feelings produced as a result of interaction with these dominant objects.

The primary driving forces behind popular culture, especially when speaking of Western popular cultures, are the media, mass appeal, marketing and capitalism; and it is produced by what philosopher Theodor Adorno refers to as the "culture industry".