Trusted Reviews

Trusted Reviews is a UK consumer-technology review publication covering smartphones, laptops, audio equipment, televisions, and household electronics. Operating as a standalone site under Candr Media, it publishes buying guides, long-term tests, and news coverage aimed at UK consumers making purchasing decisions, competing with titles such as Which?, TechRadar, and The Verge in the UK market. The site relies heavily on organic search traffic, giving it a direct commercial interest in how AI-powered search features treat third-party review content.

In June 2026 Trusted Reviews became one of 31 UK publisher sites to sign the Movement for an Open Web's Search-Only Contracts, a scheme launched on 15 June that adds a clause to participating sites' terms and conditions and robots.txt files charging £500 per article scraped without permission, targeting ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Claude. The contracts are enforced through the county court Moneyclaim service, allowing publishers to pursue claims for a filing fee of roughly £50 without specialist IP counsel.

The MOW scheme represents a test of whether small and mid-sized specialist publishers can collectively enforce a de facto licensing rate for AI training data through contract law rather than waiting for legislative or regulatory solutions. Trusted Reviews, as a specialist consumer-tech site generating editorial content directly consumed by AI summary systems, sits at the heart of the traffic-displacement problem the contracts are designed to address.