DPReview will live: Gear Patrol has purchased it from Amazon

“Gear Patrol is a natural home for the next phase of DPReview’s journey, and I’m excited to see what we can accomplish together,” said Everett. “Thank you for your continued support of our team and legacy. We appreciate it and can’t thank you all enough.”

Everett says in his announcement that current core employees across the company’s editorial, tech, and business divisions will continue to work on the site. He also says that DPReview site features and editorial coverage won’t be impacted by the acquisition and that the website will continue to operate as it did before the purchase.

“DPReview is the internet’s original center of gravity for photography,” says Eric Yang, CEO and founder of Gear Patrol.

And that is why there was such concern amongst photographers about the site being shut down by Amazon. After 25 years of operation, it contains a vast wealth of review data and content about most new cameras launched during this period, and it was feared this was going to all be lost.

See https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/21/23768266/dpreview-acquisition-gear-patrol-camera-photography-reviews
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Amazon layoffs will shut down camera review site DPReview.com after 25 years

Founded in November 1998, DPReview is one of the few active review sites as old as Ars Technica. Amazon purchased it in 2007, and the site’s team has been located in Amazon’s hometown of Seattle since 2010.

It’s of course always an issue with a buy-out from a large corporate, as they just want to make money, and they have no interest in the actual product. It’s even worse when they buy up a product with the intention of just shutting it down to kill their competition.

DPReview was one of my go-to sites when purchasing cameras, but I must say I’ve been transitioning more and more to DXOMark as they had been benchmarking smartphone cameras very well. I’m wondering if DPReview had not stuck too much to DSLRs and cameras, and not really transitioned into the mobile space?

See https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/amazon-layoffs-will-shut-down-camera-review-site-dpreview-com-after-25-years/
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