RTINGS

RTINGS.com
Type of businessPrivate
Type of site
Ratings website
Founded2011
FounderCédric Demers
Key peopleCédric Demers, President and CEO
Employees70
URLrtings.com

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 by 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 2026, RTINGS has reviewed over 4,400 products.[3] 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]

On March 2, 2026, RTINGS announced that their full test results and in-depth product analysis, which were previously free, became exclusive to paid subscribers. RTINGS stated the reason for this change as being due to decreasing traffic from Google search results, as well as uncredited scraping from AI.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Benessaieh, Karim (January 24, 2024). "Vie numérique". La Presse (in French). Retrieved October 10, 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Newman, Jared (November 22, 2023). "The best smart TV reviews on the internet come from Montreal". Fast Company. Retrieved October 10, 2024.
  3. ^ "Become a member". RTINGS.com. Archived from the original on March 8, 2026. Retrieved March 10, 2026.
  4. ^ "Revamping Our Membership Program". RTINGS.com. Retrieved 2026-03-04.

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