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Monday, March 31st, 2025 11:47 AM

IMDb Introduces Watched (Formerly Known as Seen)

We’re excited to introduce the new Watched feature, an updated version of the former Seen feature. You can now catalog the movies and TV shows you’ve watched by clicking “Mark as watched” on title pages, your Watchlist, IMDb Charts, and Lists. We have added visual progress bars on IMDb Chart pages (e.g. IMDb Top 250 Movies) to help you keep track of your watched progress for the most popular and highly rated titles across IMDb’s global audience. This feature is available on IMDb's website today, and we'll be adding it to our mobile apps soon as well.

We’ve also made it easier to automatically catalog what you’ve watched by logging any movie or TV show that you’ve Rated, Reviewed, or Checked-In as one you’ve watched as well. These movies and TV shows, as well as any you’ve directly marked as “Watched”, will be listed on “Your watch history” page.

As part of the rollout of the new Watched feature, we will be deprecating legacy Seen pages - “How much have you seen?” for Names, TV series, and select lists from User Polls - as we update to new technology and design. To provide an interim solution, customers trying to access any legacy Seen widgets or URLs (i.e. “How much have you seen?” on Name, TV series, and select lists from User Poll pages) will be redirected to a filtered Advanced Title Search results page displaying titles they have rated that is tied to a Name or TV series. We plan to add “Watched” filters to the Advanced Title Search experience as a future enhancement, so you can filter for titles you have marked as “Watched” in your search queries across IMDb’s expansive database.

For more details about the new Watched feature, please review our Help article: https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/new-features-updates/mark-as-watched-faq/GR2SD7Y4LZVNHUVH

We hope you'll enjoy these enhancements as we continue our mission to improve your experience. Your feedback is invaluable to us – we encourage you to share your thoughts and questions in this thread.

Thank you for being part of the IMDb community and for your continued support in making IMDb the go-to destination for entertainment enthusiasts worldwide.

— The IMDb Team

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104 Points

3 days ago

Hi! Just a few minutes ago I've noticed this update when I was trying to use the "How much have you rated?" feature for an actor. I must say that that was one of my favorite features when it comes to checking the amount of titles I've rated, especially the counter and percentage on the corner. It's just my opinion but I would be very grateful if it were still possible to at least have that "You Have Seen... 156/313 (49%)" part in the new Advanced Title Search, or at least leave a "Switch to previous version" option. I wouldn't be commenting this if I didn't use the feature almost daily, and I already miss it a lot. Thank you

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170 Points

Hi @Raising_Downwards - I am a Product Manager at IMDb. We have the counter and percentage feature in our future plans as we work to update to new technology and design. Our plan is to surface said feature on the Advanced Title Search page and other pages where customers may find it useful.

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2 days ago

Is it rolled out for everyone? coz i can't see it.

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Hi @argman - the new Watched experience is rolling out over a few days this week, so you may not see it quite yet. We will update you here when the release is completed.

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170 Points

Hi @argman - we have succcessfully rolled out the feature completely as of today. Please let us know if you still cannot see the feature, thank you.

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Hi Jerry, Yea I saw it. I was excited because I thought I could rate a film without marking it as watched, but apparently, I can't. bummer.

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60 Points

2 days ago

this is great feature, that finally comes to IMDb ! One thing you should add, is for TV series, to be able to mark, how much episodes and seasons we've watched. So we can better track our TV shows

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170 Points

Thanks @iw08i34! I am a Product Manager at IMDb, and glad to see you're enjoying the feature. Great suggestion about seeing the count and percentage of a TV series you have watched. This is an idea in our backlog to look into and work on.

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84 Points

15 hours ago

Hi I think this is a great feature in general but I'll really miss how clean and compact the Seen pages were for tracking your progress through a series. One page listing every episode of every season and with a percentage tracker in the top right corner. It was so useful. Any chance we could get something like that back again?

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170 Points

Hi @maddkono! I am a Product Manager at IMDb and happy to hear that you think Watched is a great feature. Good suggestion on having the percentage tracker on TV series to see how much of a series you have marked as "watched." This is functionality we have in our future plans to address as we update to new technology and design. We plan to place the percentage and counter feature to help customers like yourself keep track of your "watched" activity in places customers will find most useful.

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84 Points

Thanks @jerryd that's great news!

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568 Points

3 hours ago

Having learned years ago I could create a page like the one below for Futurama https://www.imdb.com/seen/tt0149460/?ref_=bd_tv I would get a complete list of all episodes in the series, displaying an either empty or filled star indicating whether I had seen that particular episode. When I connect to that URL now, all I get is a "Advanced Title Search" page with "Futurama" a key word as well as the phrase "Restrict to titles I've rated" in a completed search. Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation Link : https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/has-imdb-removed-the-how-many-episodes-have-you-seen-feature/67ee1c8934497d30c453d96a Title : Has IMDb removed the "How many episodes have you seen" feature?

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84 Points

I did exactly this too. I have a table in Notion that constructs those URLs based on the the IMDb ID of each series. I can't remember how I discovered that feature to begin with, and maybe its lack of visibility on the site is why it was removed, but it really was an incredibly useful way to track progress. Holding thumbs we do get something similar in future linked to Watched.