Watch out Stage 2
IMDb is reference in the cultural sense: cast lists, trivia, ratings culture. The surplus to readers is huge; the business is attention and data feeding Amazon. Ads and cross-sells are long-standing, but no recent change making it worse is documented. Stage 2.
Why it’s rated 2
The criteria it meets, with sources · Method
- Alignment 0 of 3
- None
- Lock-in 0 of 4
- None
- Extraction 0 of 7
- None
- Decline 0 of 3
- None
Result No extraction that meets the stage 3 test, and either some lock-in or no alignment criterion, so stage 2.
News signals
Sourced reporting, tagged by strategy