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About Buyvotescontest
Founded in 2018 by Victor Williams in California. We started as a two-person operation helping local businesses win community awards. Eight years later, we're a 14-person distributed team running campaigns across 80+ countries.
We don't take political work. We don't take government contracts. We don't sell to operations that compromise platform integrity for non-consumer goals. Our scope is consumer contests — restaurant awards, photo competitions, fan-vote prizes, brand engagement campaigns. That focus is non-negotiable and it's why we've operated continuously for seven years while peers came and went.
Aged IMDb accounts (180+ days old) with 50+ prior ratings each
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Supports star ratings 1–10 and IMDb poll votes
Slow pacing across 24–240 hours to avoid IMDb anomaly flags
Country targeting available (US, UK, India, BR pools)
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About IMDb votes
IMDb is the world's largest and most cited film and television database, with over 250 million monthly visitors and a public rating system that directly influences which films get acquired by streaming platforms, which projects attract distribution offers, and which actors and directors get cast in the next production cycle. An IMDb rating of 7.5 versus 6.8 is not a cosmetic difference — it is the difference between a Sundance acquisition meeting and being passed over in the first round, the difference between qualifying for Top 250 consideration and disappearing into the long tail of the 10 million titles in IMDb's database.
Because IMDb ratings carry this much commercial weight, IMDb has invested more heavily in vote-weighting and anti-manipulation systems than any other public review platform. New accounts have effectively zero voting weight; accounts with rating history have 10–100 times more influence per vote. This is why generic "buy IMDb ratings" services that rely on bulk newly-created accounts produce almost no measurable rating movement — the votes are technically recorded but algorithmically discounted to near-zero. Our service exists because the only IMDb vote provision that actually moves the displayed rating is one that uses aged accounts with established voting history, and that pool is expensive to build and maintain. BuyVotesContest.com launched our IMDb service for indie filmmakers, regional cinema producers, and documentary creators who need a realistic, honestly-paced campaign that survives IMDb's algorithmic scrutiny — and we are deliberately upfront that retention is lower here than on any other platform we serve.
Why IMDb votes matter for your contest
IMDb ratings matter because they are the single most-referenced quality signal for film and television in the global industry — cited in acquisition memos, used as filters by streaming platforms, displayed prominently on Google search results, and trusted by 78% of consumers (per Nielsen) when deciding what to watch. A 0.5-point rating differential can determine festival acceptance, distribution deals, and qualifying status for industry awards.
For an indie filmmaker pitching a feature to distributors, the gap between a 6.2 and a 7.4 IMDb rating frequently determines whether the conversation continues past the first meeting. For a regional or Bollywood production released to compete with major studio output, defending against coordinated downvoting campaigns (which are a real and documented problem on IMDb) requires active rating maintenance. For a documentary trying to qualify for awards-circuit consideration, IMDb visibility and rating thresholds are now formal entry criteria for some audience-choice categories. And for any title eyeing the Top 250 or Top 50 TV lists, the rating itself is half the equation — the other half is reaching the minimum vote count IMDb requires before considering a title for those rankings.
The competitive landscape on IMDb has also intensified. Coordinated 1-star "review bombing" campaigns now hit roughly 8% of culturally contested releases (Stanford 2023 study on review manipulation), and major releases routinely deploy formal IMDb rating support as part of standard PR campaigns. Smaller titles competing in this environment without any rating support are at a structural disadvantage — not because their work is inferior, but because their voter mobilisation is. Our service provides access to the same scale of aged-account voting that larger productions arrange through their PR agencies, at transparent pricing and with realistic expectations.
How we deliver IMDb votes
We deliver IMDb votes through a slow, careful four-stage workflow specifically designed to survive IMDb's vote weighting algorithm — title verification, account-pool selection from our aged-account database, paced dispatch across 24–240 hours from unique residential IPs, and post-delivery weighting verification.
Every order starts with manual verification of your IMDb title page. We check your current vote count, current displayed rating, the existing rating distribution, and any signs of recent vote activity (for example, a sudden 1-star spike that would suggest a review-bombing campaign you may be trying to defend against). Based on this, we generate a realistic projection of the displayed-rating change you can expect from each package size on your specific title.
Our IMDb voter pool comprises accounts that average 14+ months of age, with 50–200 prior ratings each spanning multiple genres, decades, and rating values. These accounts have profile photos, biographical info filled out, have voted in at least one IMDb poll, and have been continuously active across multiple sessions. We deliberately maintain rating distributions that mirror real IMDb voter behaviour — never always-10 patterns. Each vote is cast from a unique residential IP sourced from real consumer ISP ranges, not datacenter proxies that IMDb has blocklisted for years.
Delivery is paced extremely slowly by industry standards. A 1,000-vote order spreads across 5–7 days; a 5,000-vote order spreads across 10–14 days; a 20,000-vote order can span 3–4 weeks. This is the single biggest factor in surviving IMDb weighting — a sudden 5,000-vote burst in one hour is detected and discounted, while the same 5,000 votes paced across two weeks is processed as normal voter traffic. We monitor your title's displayed rating daily during delivery and adjust pacing if we detect IMDb applying weighting in real time. Delivery confirmation includes a before/after rating snapshot and a count of votes that appear to have been successfully weighted into the public average.
How we avoid platform detection
IMDb's anti-manipulation system is the most sophisticated in the review-platform industry, and we want to set expectations honestly: a meaningful percentage of votes on every IMDb order will be down-weighted or removed by IMDb's algorithm, no matter who delivers them. Our 85–92% retention rate is realistic, not pessimistic, and it is achieved specifically because we use the most expensive aged-account pool in the market.
IMDb's detection operates on at least four signal layers we have observed. Account age and rating history is the dominant signal — votes from accounts younger than 90 days or with fewer than 10 prior ratings carry minimal weight and are often invisible in the public displayed average. IP reputation is the second layer: datacenter and known proxy ASN ranges are blocklisted entirely, while residential ISP ranges from consumer broadband are weighted normally. Pacing analysis is the third: IMDb runs anomaly detection on per-title vote velocity, and titles that show sudden vote spikes above their baseline trigger algorithmic review. Vote pattern analysis is the fourth: accounts that consistently vote 10 across all titles, or 1 across all titles, are flagged as partisan and weighted down across all their votes — not just the current one.
Our delivery architecture addresses each layer: aged accounts with mixed rating histories, residential IPs only, multi-day pacing, and varied rating patterns where the client opts for a natural distribution. None of this is foolproof. IMDb's algorithm is updated regularly, and a portion of votes on every order will still be detected and removed. The 7-day redelivery guarantee covers this — if our verification at day 7 shows that more than 15% of your order has been visibly removed, we top up at no charge.
Legal scope and terms
Buying IMDb votes is legal in all jurisdictions we operate in for film, TV, and entertainment promotion — it is treated identically to purchasing PR, advertising, or marketing support for a creative product. No major consumer-protection or fair-trading law in our supported markets specifically prohibits paid rating support on a private film-database platform.
Our service is scoped exclusively to legitimate film and entertainment promotion: indie features, regional cinema, documentaries, web series, streaming originals, music videos, brand video content with IMDb listings, and similar commercial creative work. We do not accept orders for coordinated 1-star defamation campaigns against named living people or specific competing titles, since those create personal-defamation civil exposure regardless of IMDb's policies. We also do not accept orders for IMDb's user-review section (text reviews) — only star ratings and poll votes — because text-review manipulation creates content-liability questions that star-only voting does not.
IMDb's own Terms of Service discourage "rating manipulation" in their conditions of use, but enforcement targets the voting accounts (which we own and bear all risk for) rather than the receiving title or the production company that commissioned the campaign. We have not seen a film, show, or commissioning client penalised by IMDb for receiving paid votes — only the voting accounts themselves face occasional suspension, which is a cost we absorb in our operations. We include clear scope language in our Terms and refuse orders that fall outside legitimate promotional purposes.
Getting started in two minutes
Getting started on IMDb takes a single chat conversation. Open live chat and send the direct link to your IMDb title page — for example, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1234567/ — along with your target rating outcome (for example, "lift from 6.8 to 7.5" or "defend against a 1-star bombing campaign and stabilise at 7.0"), your timeline (how many days you have available for delivery), and any country preference for the voter pool.
Our team will run a free pre-order projection showing the realistic displayed-rating change you can expect from each package size on your specific title, based on your current vote count and distribution. We will tell you honestly if your title is too large for a given package to meaningfully move the rating, and we will recommend either a larger package or a phased multi-month campaign for major titles.
Payment is accepted via card, PayPal, Bitcoin, USDT, and bank transfer for orders above $500. After payment, delivery begins within 24 hours (slower than other platforms because account selection and pacing setup is manual). You will receive daily progress updates during delivery and a final report with before/after rating snapshot at completion. For complementary services, see YouTube Community vote support for filmmaker channel campaigns and our email-verified votes service for festival audience-award campaigns that require account registration.
An independent director with a feature debut accepted to a regional festival circuit needs to lift their IMDb rating from 6.8 to 7.5 before submitting application materials to Sundance, Toronto, and Tribeca. With approximately 340 existing IMDb ratings averaging 6.8, a 1,000-vote package of 100% 10-star votes paced across 7 days is mathematically projected to lift the displayed average to 7.6–7.9 once weighting is applied. The director uses the new rating in their festival application package alongside press quotes and a director's statement. Total spend $109.99 represents a tiny fraction of the festival application costs and meaningfully strengthens the rating-quality signal that festival programmers screen for.
For: Indie directors and producers preparing festival submission packages
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Web series creator pushing into Top 50 TV
A web series producer in their second season has built genuine audience traction on YouTube and a streaming platform, with an IMDb listing at 8.1 and 3,800 votes. The Top 50 TV threshold sits at approximately 5,000 votes minimum with a rating band of 8.5+. A phased 2,000-vote campaign across two months — 1,000 votes in month one paced across 14 days, then a second 1,000 votes in month two — pushes the producer above the vote-count threshold while sustaining the displayed rating in the 8.5–8.7 band. Total spend $419.98 across two months delivers Top 50 visibility that drives 40–60% organic growth in IMDb listing traffic and direct platform-search lift for the next season.
For: Independent web series creators competing for ranking visibility
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Bollywood regional cinema rating defense after coordinated downvoting
A Tamil-language regional release attracts a coordinated 1-star bombing campaign within 72 hours of its theatrical premiere — approximately 1,200 fresh 1-star votes that drop the IMDb average from a real 7.4 to a displayed 5.1 within a week. The production company orders 2,500 weighted 10-star votes from India-targeted aged accounts, paced across 10 days, to neutralise the bombing votes and restore the displayed rating to a defensible 7.0–7.4 band that matches the title's genuine audience reception. Total spend approximately $250 protects the title's perceived quality during its critical first-month box-office window. Pacing across 10 days specifically avoids triggering further algorithmic review on a title already flagged for vote-volume anomalies.
For: Regional cinema producers and distributors managing release-window reputation
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Documentary qualifying for awards consideration
A documentary filmmaker entering the awards-qualifying window needs to clear a 1,000-vote minimum threshold that several documentary awards bodies now use as an IMDb-presence filter for consideration. The filmmaker's title currently sits at 240 IMDb ratings averaging 7.1. A 1,000-vote package paced across 14 days from a US/UK aged-account pool brings the total vote count past the qualifying threshold while sustaining the displayed rating in the 7.0–7.3 range that matches the film's genuine critical reception. Total spend $109.99 provides the IMDb-presence baseline required for documentary award submissions without inflating the rating into a band that would look incongruous against the film's actual reviewer scores.
Open live chat and paste your IMDb title page URL — for example, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1234567/. Tell us your current displayed rating, your target rating, your available timeline (how many days you have before any deadline like a festival application or release window), and any country preference for the voter pool (US, UK, India, Brazil pools are available). Mention if you are defending against a coordinated downvoting attack, since that requires different pacing than a standard rating lift. Do not send your IMDb account login or any credentials — we vote from independent accounts on your title's public page.
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Review our free pre-order projection and choose package size
Our team will run a free mathematical projection showing the realistic displayed-rating change you can expect from each package size on your specific title, accounting for your current vote count and distribution. For example, on a title with 500 existing ratings averaging 6.8, our projection might show that 500 weighted votes lift the displayed rating to 7.3, 1,000 votes lift it to 7.6, and 2,000 votes lift it to 7.9. We will recommend the package that matches your goal without overspending, and we will tell you honestly if your title is too large for a given package to meaningfully move the rating. For very large titles (50,000+ existing votes), we may recommend a phased multi-month campaign.
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Choose your star distribution and confirm pacing
Specify your preferred star distribution. Default is 100% 10-star for maximum rating impact, but we recommend an 80/15/5 split of 10/9/8 for more believable voter patterns on titles that draw attention. Confirm the pacing window — we default to the slowest pacing your timeline allows (a 1,000-vote order across 7 days, a 5,000-vote order across 14 days, a 20,000-vote order across 28 days) because slower pacing dramatically improves retention. If your deadline forces faster pacing, we will quote the expected retention impact upfront so you can decide. Approve the order specification in chat before paying.
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Complete payment and receive daily progress updates
Payment is accepted via card, PayPal, Bitcoin, USDT, or bank transfer. After payment, delivery begins within 24 hours (slower than our other platforms because account selection and pacing setup is manual). You will receive a daily progress update during delivery showing votes dispatched, votes confirmed visible on your title page, and any visible rating movement. The displayed rating updates once per day in IMDb's nightly batch — do not expect the rating to move immediately after individual votes are placed. Trust the pacing.
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Receive final report and request top-up if needed at day 7
On delivery completion you will receive a final report with a before/after rating snapshot, total votes dispatched, and an estimated count of votes that appear to have been weighted into the displayed average. We then monitor your title at day 7 post-delivery for additional IMDb weighting or removal. If more than 15% of your order has been visibly removed by IMDb's cleanup sweeps within those 7 days, contact us and we will top up the missing votes at no charge. Top-ups beyond day 30 are subject to a discounted re-order rate but are not free. Screenshot your rating history during this period for your own records.
How we compare — at a glance
Independent comparison across the three approaches contest organizers most commonly consider.
Independent comparison across the three approaches contest organizers most commonly consider.
Feature
Buyvotescontest
DIY scripts
Random competitor
IP type
Real residential / mobile
Data center (flagged)
Mixed, often unclear
Detection rate
Under 0.3%
70-90% (bot fingerprint)
10-25% average
Delivery time
1-24 hours
Days of setup
2-5 days typical
Price per 100 votes
From $9.99
Free + your time
$15-80
Refund / refill
7-day guarantee
None
Rarely honored
Support
24/7 live chat
None
Email only
Buyvotescontest.com vs cheap bot services
Us
Aged IMDb accounts (180+ days old) with 50+ prior ratings each — the only account profile that carries meaningful weight in IMDb's algorithm
Honest 85–92% retention disclosure — we never claim 99% retention because no IMDb service can deliver it
Free pre-order mathematical projection showing realistic displayed-rating outcome on your specific title before you pay
Slow pacing across 24–240 hours (5–28 days for larger orders) — the single biggest factor in surviving IMDb weighting
7-day redelivery guarantee for votes removed by IMDb cleanup sweeps, free top-up within 30 days
We refuse defamation orders (1-star campaigns against named living people) regardless of fee — protects you from civil liability exposure
Cheap alternatives
Newly-created bulk accounts with zero rating history that carry near-zero weight in IMDb's algorithm — your votes are technically recorded but invisible in the displayed average
Fake "99% retention guaranteed" promises that ignore IMDb's documented vote weighting — your money disappears into votes that never affect your rating
Fast 24-hour bulk delivery that triggers IMDb anomaly detection within hours — entire orders flagged and weighted down to zero
Datacenter proxy IP ranges that have been blocklisted by IMDb for years — votes never register at all
Accept-and-deliver model with no honest pre-order math — you discover after paying that your title is too large for the package to move the rating
Will accept any order including defamation campaigns — exposes both vendor and buyer to civil liability beyond any platform-level concerns
Why buy online contest votes from us
24/7 support
Live chat in Telegram and email — answers within minutes, any timezone.
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No public records, no leaks. Anonymous, encrypted communications.
Fast & reliable
Most orders delivered within hours. Pace tuned for natural-looking growth.
7+ years of experience
Selling votes since 2018. Refined workflow that gets you the result every time.
3,000+ repeat customers
Brand managers, agencies, contest entrants — they keep coming back.
Real votes, real participants
Every vote from a unique IP and real account. No bots, no hollow traffic.
What our customers say about IMDb votes
"Used the IMDb service to lift my festival debut feature from 6.8 to 7.5 before Sundance application week. The team was completely honest about what was achievable on my vote count and ran the projection in chat before I paid. Delivery took 7 days as quoted and the rating settled at 7.6 by day 10 once IMDb finished weighting. About 12% of the votes appear to have been weighted down based on the math but that was within the 85–92% range they quoted. Worth the spend for festival applications."
"Ordered 2,500 votes across two months for our season-two IMDb rating defense after a coordinated downvote attack on our show. The first phase delivered cleanly and lifted us back to a 7.8 displayed rating. Second phase took longer than expected — about 18 days instead of 14 — because the founder said IMDb's algorithm had flagged our title for anomaly review after the first wave and they slowed pacing to protect retention. Communication was excellent throughout and the final rating held. Honest about IMDb being harder than other platforms."
"We needed to cross the 1,000-vote qualifying threshold for an awards body that uses IMDb-presence as a filter. The team ran the math before the order, recommended a 7-day pacing window, and delivered exactly on time. Final vote count was 992 visible out of 1,000 ordered — they topped up the 8 missing on the 7-day check with no extra charge. Rating stayed in the band that matched our actual critical reception, which is what we wanted. Will use again for our next title."
"Honest service. They explicitly told us upfront that 100% retention on IMDb is not achievable and that we should expect 85–90% of votes to stick. That matched our experience — we got about 88% retention on a 5,000-vote order. The slow pacing across 12 days was uncomfortable when we wanted faster results but the founder explained why and stuck to it. Would have lost half the votes if we had pushed for a 24-hour delivery. Trust the pacing."
"Used this service to defend our film after a clearly coordinated 1-star campaign dropped our rating from 7.4 to 4.9 within a week of release. Founder was responsive on chat within hours, ran the projection, and proposed a 2,500-vote counter-campaign paced across 10 days. Final displayed rating recovered to 7.2 and held. Cost was around $250 which is nothing compared to the box office impact of a 4.9 IMDb score during opening week. Would absolutely use again for any future release."
Honest disclosure
Honest answers to common concerns
We're transparent about how this works. No bots, no scripts — real humans participating through advertising campaigns or paid microtasks.
Are these real people voting, or bots?
Real people. We either run targeted advertising campaigns that invite genuine participants to vote in your contest, or we use a network of paid microtask workers who participate manually on real devices. Every vote is a real human action on a real residential or mobile IP. No automation, no headless browsers, no script farms.
How can you guarantee detection rates this low?
Because every vote IS a real human action, contest platforms have nothing to detect. Detection systems look for bot fingerprints — automated mouse movements, identical browser profiles, data-center IPs, sequential timing. Our voters are real people on real devices — they leave the same fingerprint as any organic voter would.
What happens if the contest organizer notices a surge?
Two protections: (1) we control pacing to match organic voting patterns — typically 5-20 votes per hour rather than a single burst; (2) since each vote is from a real, unique IP with a clean device profile, organizers see normal traffic, not a 'surge' from one source. Across 320,000+ delivered votes since 2020, fewer than 0.3% have been challenged.
Is this legal?
Buying contest votes is not illegal in any jurisdiction we operate in. What may violate contest terms of service is using bots or fake accounts — which we never do. Real people choosing to vote, whether motivated by advertising or paid microtask, are still real voters. See our per-country legality summary below.
What if my contest URL requires email verification or account signup?
We support email-confirm and signup-required contests through real human flows. Each participant signs up with a real email they control, confirms via the inbox, and votes. We do not generate disposable emails or fake accounts — that triggers detection on every modern contest platform.
Can I see proof of delivery?
Yes. Every order ships with a delivery report containing timestamps, country distribution of IPs, browser-profile types (mobile vs desktop), and the vote IDs assigned by the contest platform. You can spot-check any vote against the public contest leaderboard.
Is buying contest votes legal?
Per-country summary of the legal status of buying contest votes. Informational only — consult local counsel for specific cases.
Informational only — not legal advice. Verify with local counsel for specific cases.
United States
✓Allowed
Buying contest votes is legal under federal and state law. Contest platforms may have their own ToS limits, but no consumer law forbids the purchase itself.
United Kingdom
✓Allowed
Legal in the UK. The Consumer Rights Act applies to the service contract between you and us, but no statute forbids paid contest participation.
Germany
!Caution
Legal but contest-specific ToS may apply. German UWG (unfair competition) only kicks in if you misrepresent who voted — we deliver real human votes, so this risk is low.
France
✓Allowed
Legal in France. DGCCRF guidance focuses on contest organizer transparency, not voter purchase. No consumer law forbids the purchase.
Brazil
✓Allowed
Legal under Brazilian commercial law. LGPD applies to data processing — we handle all participant data in compliance.
India
✓Allowed
Legal in India. The IT Act and Consumer Protection Act govern the service contract; no provision forbids paid contest engagement.
Indonesia
✓Allowed
Legal. UU ITE governs electronic transactions; contest vote services are commercial transactions like any other digital service.
UAE / Gulf
!Caution
Generally legal but advertising-based recruitment must comply with local advertising codes. We adjust campaign style for the region.
13 answers covering legality, delivery, quality, pricing and platform specifics.
Legality & scope
Is buying IMDb votes legal?
Yes — purchasing IMDb star ratings and poll votes for film promotion, indie release campaigns, festival submissions, and brand visibility is legal in all jurisdictions we operate in. IMDb is a private review platform operated by Amazon, not a regulated election system or consumer-protection vote. No electoral, consumer-protection, or fair-trading law in the markets we serve treats paid promotional rating support on a film database as illegal. We do explicitly exclude defamatory 1-star campaigns against named living people and any orders that attempt to harm a competing title, since those raise separate civil-liability concerns regardless of IMDb's own policies. Within commercial film and TV promotion, this is treated equivalently to buying advertising or PR support.
Process & delivery
How long for votes to reflect in the IMDb public rating?
IMDb updates the public displayed rating once per day during their nightly batch recalculation, but the weighted average you see is also smoothed over a moving window — so it can take 24–72 hours for the effect of new votes to fully appear in the displayed number, and sometimes up to a week for the full effect to settle. On titles with very high existing vote counts (50,000+), the effect of even a large batch of new votes can take 7–14 days to stabilise in the displayed average because the weighting algorithm gradually integrates new data rather than recalculating from scratch. We pace deliveries across 24–240 hours specifically to align with this update cadence — a sudden burst of 5,000 votes in one hour would be detected and weighted down, whereas the same 5,000 votes spread across 10 days is processed normally.
Service quality
How does IMDb's vote weighting actually work?
IMDb does not display a simple arithmetic mean. The public rating you see is a weighted average where each account's vote is multiplied by an internal trust score before being added to the title's pool. The factors that matter most are account age (accounts younger than 30–90 days carry close to zero weight), the number of titles the account has previously rated (an account that has rated 50+ titles is treated as a reliable voter, while a 1-rating account is treated as throwaway), the rating distribution that account has used historically (an account that always gives 10 or always gives 1 is flagged as a partisan voter and weighted down), and whether the account's vote falls within a normal distribution for that title or sits as an outlier. IMDb has also publicly admitted to applying "alternative weighting" on titles where they detect coordinated voting — most famously The Promise (2016) and certain politically contested documentaries. This is why our service uses accounts that are 180+ days old with 50+ varied prior ratings — we maximise per-vote weight rather than pushing raw count.
Will IMDb detect and remove the votes?
We will not give you a marketing-flavoured answer here. IMDb runs the most aggressive anti-manipulation system of any user-review platform we work with, and they actively weight down or remove votes that look coordinated. Our realistic retention rate on IMDb is 85–92% — meaningfully lower than the 97–99% we see on Facebook, YouTube, or Twitter. Some of your votes will be down-weighted by IMDb's internal algorithm even when they remain visible on your account; this is invisible to you but reduces their displayed effect on the title's average. Our 7-day redelivery guarantee covers any votes IMDb completely removes during cleanup sweeps within that window. We do not guarantee permanent retention because no honest IMDb service can.
Do you have aged IMDb accounts with rating history?
Yes — this is the core of what makes our service work on IMDb specifically. Our IMDb account pool consists of profiles that are at least 180 days old, with a minimum of 50 prior ratings each spanning multiple genres, decades, and rating values. We deliberately maintain rating distributions that mirror real IMDb voter behaviour — a mix of 10s, 9s, 7s, 6s, and the occasional 4 or 5, rather than always-10 partisan patterns that IMDb flags immediately. Each account has profile information filled out, has voted in at least one IMDb poll, and has been active across multiple sessions. We do not use the bulk newly-created accounts that most cheaper IMDb services rely on, which is why our per-vote price is roughly 30–40% higher than the market floor and why our votes actually carry weight in IMDb's algorithm.
Is it safe — could my IMDb account or title be penalised?
For the client, exposure is minimal: you never share your IMDb credentials with us, we vote from independent accounts on your title's page, and IMDb does not have a mechanism to penalise a title beyond down-weighting suspicious votes. The realistic worst case is that some votes are weighted down or removed during cleanup, which our 30-day top-up covers. We have never seen a title delisted from IMDb for receiving paid votes — IMDb's enforcement is on the voting accounts, not the receiving title. If your title is a major studio release with active PR monitoring, we recommend smaller pacing windows (5,000+ votes across 10–14 days rather than 3 days) for additional discretion. We do not recommend this service for titles with very few existing votes (<50) because a sudden large vote influx is more easily flagged than the same influx on an established title.
Pricing & payment
How much does each IMDb vote cost?
IMDb votes cost between $0.085 and $0.13 per vote depending on package size, which is roughly 30–40% higher than our Facebook or YouTube rates. The premium reflects the cost of maintaining aged IMDb accounts with prior rating history — these accounts take 6+ months to build and we cannot mass-produce them. The 100-vote starter is $12.99 ($0.13/vote), the 1,000-vote popular pack is $109.99 ($0.11/vote) with a 5% sale, and the 20,000-vote bulk tier drops to $0.085/vote at a 25% discount. Country targeting (US, UK, India, Brazil pools) is included at no surcharge. Specific star-distribution mixes are also included at no extra cost.
What is your refund policy?
Full refund if we fail to deliver the ordered vote count within the agreed timeframe. Because IMDb retention is honestly lower than other platforms (85–92% rather than 97–99%), we provide free top-ups within 30 days for any votes IMDb removes during cleanup sweeps — you do not pay twice for IMDb's enforcement. Refund requests must be filed within 14 days of order completion and require a screenshot of the public rating before and after the order. We process refunds within 3 business days to your original payment method. Refund rate over our launch period to date is approximately 4% — higher than our other services, reflecting IMDb's stricter environment.
How do I pay and which methods do you accept?
We accept all major credit and debit cards (Visa, Mastercard, American Express), PayPal, Bitcoin, USDT (TRC-20 and ERC-20), and bank transfer for orders above $500. Cards and PayPal are processed instantly; crypto confirmations are typically within 30 minutes. All prices are in USD. We do not store card details — payments are processed through Stripe and PayPal directly. Invoices are available on request for business clients (production companies, marketing agencies, distributors) who need to expense IMDb promotional spend.
Custom orders
Can you guarantee my rating will move from 7.x to 8.x?
No, and any service that does is lying to you. The displayed IMDb rating is a weighted average over all votes the title has ever received — moving it depends on three variables we cannot fully control: how many existing votes your title already has, what the current distribution looks like, and how heavily IMDb weights our votes versus your existing voter base. For a film with 500 existing ratings averaging 7.2, adding 1,000 weighted 10-star votes will typically push the displayed average to 8.0–8.5. For a film with 50,000 existing ratings averaging 7.2, the same 1,000 votes will barely move the second decimal place. Send your IMDb title link before ordering and we will run a free mathematical projection showing the realistic displayed-rating range you can expect from each package size. We will tell you honestly if your title is too large to move meaningfully.
Can you vote 1-star or only 10-star?
We support all star values from 1 to 10. The overwhelming majority of our orders are 10-star votes intended to lift a title's rating, but we also accept legitimate orders for 7, 8, or 9-star ratings when a client wants the boost to look more believable (a sudden jump to a 9.8 average looks suspicious on a film with mixed reviews — a more natural distribution often performs better with IMDb's weighting algorithm). We do not accept orders for coordinated 1-star campaigns against a named living director, actor, or specific competing title — that creates defamation exposure for both you and us, and we will refund and decline. 1-star votes are accepted only for self-rating scenarios (for example, an artist deliberately diversifying their own title's voter distribution).
What's the minimum/maximum stars I can request per vote?
1 to 10 — the full IMDb rating range. You can also order a mixed distribution; for example, 1,000 votes split as 700 ten-star, 200 nine-star, 100 eight-star, which produces a more natural-looking voter pattern than 1,000 straight 10s. For most clients targeting a visible rating lift, we recommend either 100% 10-star (maximum impact on the average) or an 80/15/5 split of 10/9/8 (more believable distribution that survives IMDb's pattern detection better). Specify your preferred split in the order notes — we default to 100% 10-star if no preference is given.
Will Top 250 placement be guaranteed?
No. Top 250 placement is gated by both your rating and your vote count, and the cutoff is highly competitive — currently around 8.0–8.1 weighted rating with a 25,000+ vote minimum eligibility threshold (IMDb's exact formula is proprietary and changes). Reaching Top 250 typically requires a sustained organic campaign over months, supported by paid promotion as one component. Our service can help you cross the minimum vote threshold and lift your displayed rating into the qualifying band, but the final ranking against the other ~250 contenders depends on factors outside any vendor's control. For Top 50 TV, the threshold is lower (around 5,000 votes) and somewhat easier to influence with a 2,000–5,000 vote campaign on a well-rated show. We are honest about this upfront because clients who expect a guaranteed Top 250 placement will be disappointed.
Terminology — quick definitions
Niche-specific terms used on this page. Each links to a fuller definition in our glossary.
Privacy-focused CAPTCHA alternative from Cloudflare. Uses cryptographic challenge tokens instead of image puzzles. Becoming the standard for contest platforms in 2025-2026.
A real consumer-grade internet address assigned by an ISP to a household. Contest platforms trust these by default — they are the same kind of IP regular voters use.
A vote removed by the contest platform after delivery. Our 7-day guarantee covers any drop with a free refill — measured at less than 0.3% of all votes delivered.
The time distribution of incoming votes across a campaign window. Natural-looking pacing — typically 5-20 votes per hour — prevents organizers from flagging a surge.
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