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| Type of business | Private |
|---|---|
Type of site | Ratings website |
| Founded | 2011 |
| Founder(s) | Cédric Demers |
| Key people | Cédric Demers, President and CEO |
| Employees | 70 |
| URL | rtings |
RTINGS (pronounced "ratings") is a Canadian website which performs and publishes data-based benchmarks of consumer electronics products. [1] [2] It rates individual attributes of a product, such as motion blur on a camera, and allows users to compare devices based on these attributes. [2] It also publishes the original data from its tests. [1]
RTINGS was founded in 2011 by Cédric Demers, in his basement, originally as a website that compiled reviews from other websites, similar to Rotten Tomatoes. [1] [2] Initially, the website wasn't very successful and the founder was living off his savings from his prior job at Microsoft. [1] [2] RTINGS' first original review was a July 2013 review of a Samsung F5300 plasma TV. [2]
As of 2024, RTINGS has reviewed 3,000 products. [1] RTINGS purchases the products itself, in order to avoid bias and to review budget models that are not ordinarily given to reviewers for free. [1] [2] It earns a commission when visitors reading a review click a link to buy the product being reviewed. [1] Its business model also includes subscriber fees to access extra features. [1] RTINGS reviews often tops search results for a given product. [2]