Candr Media

Candr Media is a UK digital publishing group best known as the operator of Trusted Reviews, a consumer-technology review site covering smartphones, laptops, televisions, and audio equipment. The group's portfolio is focused on review and buying-guide content, a category that has faced acute traffic displacement since the arrival of AI-generated search summaries, which synthesise and surface review judgements on-page without directing users to the originating site.

In June 2026 Candr Media signed the Movement for an Open Web's Search-Only Contracts on behalf of Trusted Reviews, making it one of 31 founding UK publisher sites in a scheme that charges £500 per article scraped without permission. The contracts target OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Claude, and are enforced via the county court Moneyclaim service. As a mid-sized specialist publisher, Candr's participation demonstrates that the MOW scheme is not limited to major national news brands; niche digital-native publishers are among the earliest to act on the AI-scraping issue through contract rather than waiting for legislation.

The significance of Candr's position is structural: consumer-technology review content is among the highest-value categories for AI training datasets and search-summary generation, because readers ask conversational questions ("which laptop should I buy?") that map directly onto the kinds of queries AI systems handle. That makes Candr's titles early-line casualties of the traffic shift, and correspondingly early-line participants in the contractual response.