diff --git a/examples/pipeline/multi_processing.py b/examples/pipeline/multi_processing.py
index 99bb9c53f..d6e98752e 100644
--- a/examples/pipeline/multi_processing.py
+++ b/examples/pipeline/multi_processing.py
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ def main(output_dir, model='en_core_web_sm', n_jobs=4, batch_size=1000,
     print("Loading IMDB data...")
     data, _ = thinc.extra.datasets.imdb()
     texts, _ = zip(*data[-limit:])
+    print("Processing texts...")
     partitions = partition_all(batch_size, texts)
     items = ((i, [nlp(text) for text in texts], output_dir) for i, texts
              in enumerate(partitions))