This is a better outcome than losing DPReview entirely.
Gear Patrol has acquired DPReview
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Re: Gear Patrol has acquired DPReview
#12This may sound harsh, but Gear Patrol looks to me like just another content farm with affiliate links, generating "Top X of Y" articles. Sure it's got a premium feel of the website, but the lack of product specs make its value to me as a consumer 0.
I've come across a few Gear Patrol articles in my mobile chrome feed and I must agree - they aren't very helpful. It seems like they just want to add to their network with a quality domain name. > Will all DPReview staff join Gear Patrol? > Our current core editorial, tech, and business team is moving forward with DPReview. Gear Patrol is committed to continuing DPReview’s industry leading journalism, and we look for…
I think you read that backwards, move forward in this context means they will continue working with dpreview at it's new home.
Are there changes coming? change is the only constant, but, it sounds like everyone who had a job yesterday at dpreview (a wholly owned division of amazon) will have one tomorrow at dpreview (a wholly owned division of gear patrol) .
Re: Gear Patrol has acquired DPReview
#13This may sound harsh, but Gear Patrol looks to me like just another content farm with affiliate links, generating "Top X of Y" articles. Sure it's got a premium feel of the website, but the lack of product specs make its value to me as a consumer 0.
I never heard of them before, but, their quality seems pretty good.
https://www.gearpatrol.com/food/a44258552/oral-history-big-g...
That's a whole article with extensive interviews/content/context without (as far as I could find) a single affiliate link (not even a buy link?).
Re: Gear Patrol has acquired DPReview
#14This may sound harsh, but Gear Patrol looks to me like just another content farm with affiliate links, generating "Top X of Y" articles. Sure it's got a premium feel of the website, but the lack of product specs make its value to me as a consumer 0.
Gearpatrol is the worst sort of website, because they do just enough of what could be called journalism to maintain a bit of integrity. Some of their reviews actually contain a critique!
But for every one of those posts, there’s ten where an advertiser clearly dictated the content.
Re: Gear Patrol has acquired DPReview
#15This may sound harsh, but Gear Patrol looks to me like just another content farm with affiliate links, generating "Top X of Y" articles. Sure it's got a premium feel of the website, but the lack of product specs make its value to me as a consumer 0.
I never heard of them before, but, their quality seems pretty good. https://www.gearpatrol.com/food/a44258552/oral-history-big-g... That's a whole article with extensive interviews/content/context without (as far as I could find) a single affiliate link (not even a buy link?).
But that whole piece is just a promotional item for the big green egg brand of barbecues. It’s entirely complimentary and written to promote the brand. It’s not journalism, it doesn’t help anybody other than the people who sell those barbecues
Re: Gear Patrol has acquired DPReview
#16Hopefully this means that they'll be able to maintain their thorough review format.
Re: Gear Patrol has acquired DPReview
#17I wonder what happened behind the scenes at AMZN to make this possible.
Amazon selling off companies they own is not very common. The last one that I know of that they sold off was Curse.(Sub-Subsidiary of Twitch) It was a huge effort by the director at the time to make it happen.
Re: Gear Patrol has acquired DPReview
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've come across a few Gear Patrol articles in my mobile chrome feed and I must agree - they aren't very helpful. It seems like they just want to add to their network with a quality domain name. > Will all DPReview staff join Gear Patrol? > Our current core editorial, tech, and business team is moving forward with DPReview. Gear Patrol is committed to continuing DPReview’s industry leading journalism, and we look for…
I think you read that backwards, move forward in this context means they will continue working with dpreview at it's new home. Are there changes coming? change is the only constant, but, it sounds like everyone who had a job yesterday at dpreview (a wholly owned division of amazon) will have one tomorrow at dpreview (a wholly owned division of gear patrol) .
The question was "will all DPReview staff join Gear Patrol", and the answer said core as opposed to just simply affirming all, so perhaps not all staff get to keep their job.
Re: Gear Patrol has acquired DPReview
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
I never heard of them before, but, their quality seems pretty good. https://www.gearpatrol.com/food/a44258552/oral-history-big-g... That's a whole article with extensive interviews/content/context without (as far as I could find) a single affiliate link (not even a buy link?).
But that whole piece is just a promotional item for the big green egg brand of barbecues. It’s entirely complimentary and written to promote the brand. It’s not journalism, it doesn’t help anybody other than the people who sell those barbecues
Everything is to some degree promoting something else. Are the myriad articles in the past few days promoting OceanGate Expeditions? Their competitors? Titanic tourism in general?
I think that only crosses the line from informational to promotional if Gear Patrol was paid to write/show that article and I see no evidence of that.
Re: Gear Patrol has acquired DPReview
#20It's unfortunate for DPReview that this happened after they already lost their best talent (Chris and Jordan over at DPReview TV)