| RTINGS.com | |
| Founded: | 2011 |
| Founder: | Cédric Demers |
| Company Type: | Private |
| Key People: | Cédric Demers, President and CEO |
| Type: | Ratings website |
| Employees: | 70 |
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.
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. Initially, the website wasn't very successful and the founder was living off his savings from his prior job at Microsoft. RTINGS' first original review was a July 2013 review of a Samsung F5300 plasma TV.
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] It earns a commission when visitors reading a review click a link to buy the product being reviewed. Its business model also includes subscriber fees to access extra features. RTINGS reviews often tops search results for a given product.