Camera website DPReview will stop from April 10

Camera website DPReview is closing its doors. The website will stop from April 10, and this also applies to the website’s YouTube channel. DPReview is a large, English-language camera website with news, reviews and an extensive forum.

On DPReview the team has a message posted stating that the site is being closed after almost 25 years. Scott Everett, the camera site’s general manager, calls it a “difficult decision” resulting from a annual assessment from parent company Amazon from the beginning of this year. DPReview is not directly mentioned in this. However, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced 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 has come 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. The site will no longer receive updates from April 10. DPReview will then 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 five years by photography enthusiast Chris Niccolls and the more video-oriented Jordan Drake. Before this, this Canadian duo was part of The Camera Store channel. Nicolls says on Twitter that he and Drake are not ready to call it quits and that the show will go on. He doesn’t give any details about that yet, but in one video on the DPReview channel, Niccolls advises interested parties to keep an eye on the social media accounts of both for more news.