But who is behind Metacritic and how are those numbers aggregated?
In 1999, USC Gould School of Law alumnus Jason Dietz came up with the idea of a website that, like Doyle, would apply meta-analysis to a variety of media, and asked Doyle to join him in the effort to build it. did. (Film aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes launched that year, but Dietz didn’t know that.) The site’s current feature editor, Dietz, learned how to code HTML and explored the possibilities. I was creating his website with what was called a list of band names.
In late 1999, Doyle’s sister and her husband donated the bulk of Metacritic’s startup funding. (Earlier this month, Metacritic and six of her other sites bought by fandom, the developer of an entertainment platform dedicated to superfans, has an estimated $50 million deal. Doyle declined to comment on the sale.) Together, they began researching thousands of printed and online reviews, compiling them into Excel spreadsheets and organizing them according to their own schematics.
According to Doyle, the group now visits publications that publish reviews on a daily basis. “Every time they publish a review, we put it into the system,” he said. “Once we reach 4 reviews, we generate a metascore, which is the average score.” ‘ he added.
Metacritic was published in January 2001 with summaries of how vertical films and their staff calculated their Metascores. In letter grades (used by publications such as Entertainment Weekly), A represents 100 and F corresponds to 0. For reviews not assigned an alphanumeric value, the site staff — Metacritic currently has five full-time employees working remotely from Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, and Portland, Oregon — Evaluate the tone of the review before assigning it. take care of yourself.