A journalist recently asked Sir Rodney if webmasters view review sites as the new TGPs. It’s a good question. The web is raining review sites, as noted in this blog post last year.

I can’t speak for the content producers, but it does seem that everyone and
their mom has their own “review site” now (though, honestly, some of them look more like glorified TGPs). We see a new review site come up just about every month, similar to the way TGPs multiplied in the late ’90s and early 2000s. This is due in no small part to the low barrier of entry in starting a review site and the superior conversion rates.

Sir Rodney tries to update info on his Top Picks semiannually. There has been some accusation that the bigger review sites just shill for these networks, but the reason these sites make money is that porn consumers like their stuff, and the review sites simply reflect this appeal. If a site is inferior, the most positive review won’t hold up over time. As they say, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.

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