RTINGS.com
| 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 is a review website focused on benchmark testing[1] and data. It rates individual attributes of a product, such as motion blur on a camera.[2] It also publishes the original data from its benchmarks or experiments.[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]