Camera website DPReview.com will stop on April 10

Camera website DPReview.com will close its doors. As of April 10, the website will shut down and so will the website’s YouTube channel. DPReview is a large, English-language camera website that includes news, reviews and an extensive forum.

At DPReview.com, the team has a message posted stating that the site is shutting down after nearly 25 years. Scott Everett, the camera site’s general manager, speaks of a “difficult decision” resulting from a annual assessment from parent company Amazon from the beginning of this year. DPReview is not directly mentioned in it. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy did announce that a round of layoffs of 18,000 employees would follow. Everett expresses his gratitude for the communities that have formed around the website and the support that came from it.

DPReview will remain on the air until April 10, and until then the editors will continue to work on reviews and publishing other content. As of April 10, the site will no longer receive updates. DPReview.com will not immediately go offline and will be available in a read-only mode for a ‘limited period’. After that, the site will probably disappear permanently. Visitors who have uploaded content such as text and photos to the website can download their material until April 6.

It is an eye-catching part of DPReview Youtube Channel which has been presented for the past five years by photography enthusiast Chris Niccolls and the more video capability oriented Jordan Drake. Before that, this Canadian duo was part of The Camera Store channel. Nickols says on Twitter that he and Drake aren’t ready to call it quits and that the show will go on. He doesn’t give details about that yet, but in one video on the DPReview channel, Niccolls advises those interested to keep an eye on both’s social media accounts for more news.