Draft:RTINGS.com

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.com

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Instructions · What links here · RTINGS.com (talk: + · bio) · (log) · Copyvios report · reFill · Citation Bot · (Search: Google, Wikipedia) · Submitted 15 days ago by DMOkeeffe (talk: D · +) · Last edited 14 days ago by Citation bot

Submission declined on 18 September 2024 by 331dot (talk).

This draft's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article. In summary, the draft needs multiple published sources that are:

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Declined by 331dot 44 days ago. Last edited by Citation bot 14 days ago. Reviewer: Inform author.

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Submission declined on 3 September 2024 by SafariScribe (talk).

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Declined by SafariScribe 59 days ago.

Comment: Compared to the prior submission, this draft focuses only on in-depth profiles of RTINGS and its history published by independent media.[1][2] It no longer has any cites to RTINGS.com itself or news articles about individual tests done by RTINGS. Thank you for your patience while I better learn Wikipedia's rules. Please see COI disclosure on Talk.DMOkeeffe (talk) 19:22, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

Comment: This just summarizes the routine activities of the company, it does not summarize what independent reliable sources choose on their own to say about the company and how it is a notable company as Wikipedia defines it.
You declared a conflict of interest with this company; if you work for them, you are required by the Terms of Use to make the stricter paid editing disclosure. 331dot (talk) 12:27, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

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]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Benessaieh, Karim (January 24, 2024). "Vie numérique". La Presse (in French). Retrieved October 10, 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Newman, Jared (November 22, 2023). "The best smart TV reviews on the internet come from Montreal". Fast Company. Retrieved October 10, 2024.

[n973-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Benessaieh, Karim (January 24, 2024). "Vie numérique". La Presse (in French). Retrieved October 10, 2024.

[p850-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Newman, Jared (November 22, 2023). "The best smart TV reviews on the internet come from Montreal". Fast Company. Retrieved October 10, 2024.

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