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WHAT IS METACRITIC? (In the
Entertainment industry.)
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WHAT IS METACRITIC?
How does Metacritic work?
Find the critics' consensus in one place, with a
single “Metascore”. Metacritic's proprietary Metascore distills the opinions of
the most respected critics writing online and in print to a single number.
Compare what's new this week, what's great this year,
and all-time favorites—finding quality entertainment is easy with the
Metacritic scorecard.
Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of
media products: films, TV shows, music albums, video games, and formerly,
books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged (a weighted
average). The site provides an excerpt from each review and hyperlinks to its
source. A color of green, yellow or red summarizes the critics'
recommendations. It has been described as the video game industry's
"premier" review aggregator.
Metacritic's scoring converts each review into a
percentage, either mathematically from the mark given, or which the site
decides subjectively from a qualitative review. Before being averaged, the
scores are weighted according to the critic's fame, stature, and volume of
reviews.
History
It began as a simple idea back in the summer of 1999:
a single score could summarize the many entertainment reviews available for a
movie or a video game. Metacritic's three founding members—all former attorneys
who were happy to find a more constructive but less profitable use of their
time—launched the site in January 2001 and Metacritic has evolved over the last
decade to reflect their experience distilling many critics' voices into the
single Metascore, a weighted average of the most respected critics writing
reviews online and in print.
Metacritic's mission is to help consumers make an
informed decision about how to spend their time and money on entertainment. We
believe that multiple opinions are better than one, user voices can be as
important as critics, and opinions must be scored to be easy to use.
Metacritic was launched in January 2001 by Marc
Doyle, his sister Julie Doyle Roberts, and a classmate from the University of
Southern California law school, Jason Dietz, after two years of developing the
site. Rotten Tomatoes was already compiling movie reviews, but Doyle, Roberts
and Dietz saw an opportunity to cover a broader range of media. They sold
Metacritic to CNET in 2005. CNET and Metacritic were later acquired by the CBS
Corporation.
In August 2010, the website's appearance was
revamped. In June 2018, the website introduced the 'Metacritic: Must-See' label
for films that attain scores of 81% or more, with at least 15 professional
reviews for the given film. In September 2018, it added the 'Metacritic:
Must-Play' certification for video games attaining a score of 90% or more, and
a minimum number of 15 reviews from industry professionals.
Metascores
Scores are weighted averages. Certain publications
are given more significance "because of their stature". Metacritic
has said that it will not reveal the relative weight assigned to each reviewer.
Games Editor Marc Doyle was interviewed by Keith
Stuart of The Guardian to "get a look behind the metascoring process".
Stuart wrote: "The metascore phenomenon, namely Metacritic and
GameRankings, have become an enormously important element of online games
journalism over the past few years". Doyle said that because video games
lead to a greater investment of time and money, gamers are more informed about
reviews than are fans of film or music; they want to know "whether that
hotly anticipated title is going to deliver".
Sources, References & Credits: Google, Wikipedia, Wikihow, WikiBooks,
Pinterest, IMDB, Linked In, Indie Wire, Film Making Stuff, Hiive, Film Daily, New
York Film Academy, The Balance, Careers Hub, The Numbers, Film Maker, TV Guide
Magazine, Blurb, Media Match, Quora, Creative Skill Set, Chron, Investopedia,
Variety, No Film School, WGA, BBC, Daily Variety, The Film Agency, Best Sample
Resume, How Stuff Works, Studio Binder, Career Trend, Producer's Code of
Credits, Truity, Production Hub, Producers Guild of America, Film Connection, Variety,
Wolf Crow, Get In Media, Production Beast, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros, UCAS, Frankenbite,
Realty 101, Careers Hub, Screen Play Scripts, Elements of Cinema, Script
Doctor, ASCAP, Film Independent, Any Possibility, CTLsites, NYFA, Future Learn,
VOM Productions, Mad Studios, DP School, DGA, IATSE, ASC, MPAA, HFPA, MPSE,
CDG, AFI, Box Office Mojo, Rotten Tomatoes, The Numbers, Netflix, Vimeo,
Instagram, Pinterest, Metacritic,
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