Launched to provide a web only product for increasingly internet-literate users, access was deliberately made free to compete with paid-for magazine subscriptions.
[1] The website covers the consumer technology market, focusing on mobile phones, TV and audio visual equipment and computing.
[2] In 2007, the-then IPC Media bought Trusted Reviews in order to expand its digital operations.
[3][4] In 2010, Cliff Jones was appointed editor of Trusted Reviews.
[9] In 2020, Future plc (owner of competitor TechRadar) acquired TI Media, the then-parent company of Trusted Reviews and then sold Trusted Reviews to Incisive Media.