HGTV.com debuts ‘Rate My Room’
Cory Bergman February 20th, 2007
The ever-popular HGTV.com has launched a new feature that allows users to upload photos and descriptions of their favorite rooms. Then others can rate the rooms and leave their own comments. In the end, HGTV.com builds up a library of design ideas… for free. Great idea. “If you don’t have the opportunity to work with a decorator, and not all of us do, you have a great resource right at your fingertips,” said Charity Curley, vice president of HGTV.com. Press release after the screen grab…
PRESS RELEASE — Do you have a great space but don’t know what to do with it? Or maybe you have a room that’s a real show stopper you’d like to share? HGTV.com introduces an exciting new social media feature, “Rate My Room,” in which visitors can share photos of their favorite or least favorite room, browse other’s spaces for inspiration as well as try their own hand at lending design advice. “Rate My Room” is available only at HGTV.com, the No. 1 online content destination in the Nielsen//NetRatings’ Home & Garden Category. (http://ratemyroom.hgtv.com )
HGTV.com’s “Rate My Room” is an easy-to-use hub for those who have a flair for decorating and would like to show-off their spaces as well as those who have the desire for design but need some help pulling it together. An easy upload process allows users to submit photos along with thoughts on the existing decor or requests for “design intervention.” Users can also rate each room as they browse and post comments allowing for the World Wide Web of design enthusiasts to talk to each other like never before.
“The exciting thing about ‘Rate My Room’ is it uses the latest technology to enable the oldest type of conversation – talking to friends and sharing ideas,” explains Charity Curley, vice president of HGTV.com. “If you don’t have the opportunity to work with a decorator, and not all of us do, you have a great resource right at your fingertips. With ‘Rate My Room,’ HGTV.com is bringing together many minds keen on design to help each other out and share. It’s a true virtual decorating community!”
“Rate My Room” is a user-generated companion to HGTV.com’s popular “Designers’ Portfolio,” a sumptuous gallery of more than 1,000 images submitted by more than 100 professional designers who have been featured on HGTV. This collection offers inspiration to transform any room around the house through hundreds of samples that are organized by dozens of categories from bedrooms to bathrooms and searchable by style, from country to eclectic and everything in-between. Favorite rooms can be saved in a personalized My Portfolio folder, as well as printed or emailed to friends. (http://hgtv.com/designersportfolio )
The dynamic Web sites created and supported by Scripps Networks Interactive attracted an average of more than 13.5 million unique visitors per month in 2006. The Scripps Networks Interactive properties — Web sites HGTV.com, FoodNetwork.com, DIYnetwork.com, FineLiving.com, GACTV.com along with broadband channels HGTV Pro , HGTV KitchenDesign, HGTV BathDesign , DIY Automotive, DIY Crafts, DIY Gardening , DIY Home Improvement and DIY Woodworking — are not only extensions of Scripps Networks leading lifestyle brands, providing users programming information and additional instructional content, but also exciting destinations for original content, engaging video and powerful interactive tools.
9 Comments Add your own
1. Steve | February 21st, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Isn’t this a ripoff of apartmenttherapy dot com?
2. Debbie | February 22nd, 2007 at 1:51 pm
This press release is paraphrasing one that was sent out in November describing a very similar website called ratemyroom dot net. Ratemyroom dont netpress release stated, “It’s a forum for exchanging decorating ideas and tips. It’s just like the old coffee klatch — but the electronic version.
This press release says, “The exciting thing about ‘Rate My Room’ is it uses the latest technology to enable the oldest type of conversation – talking to friends and sharing ideas. Now is this really original?
Shame on you.
3. Al Green | February 23rd, 2007 at 5:06 am
You can do a similar thing - with more features - at decornextdoor.com. Professional designers will give free advice on room photos that you have posted.
4. Jill Feldman | February 23rd, 2007 at 6:05 pm
Al, thanks for noticing. We launched decornextdoor.com last month as a social networking site, but with this difference: It was created for a specific experience, the giving and getting of design advice. Decor Next Door is powered by a growing community of design-lovers and professional designers, all reviewing photos, rating, voting and commenting together.
Glad you like it.
Jill
decornextdoor.com
5. KIM | March 1st, 2007 at 9:32 am
When I opened my HDTV email and saw the Rate MY
Room site, it was a copy of The same Rate My Room.net
Which has been out for months now. I thought it was the
same site. I am really shocked to see that HDTV copied
someone elses site. Even the press release that I have
read on both are similar. I am really disappointed in HDTV
and will not use their site anymore.
6. Debbie | April 7th, 2007 at 8:31 am
Scripps Network has changed the name of their room rating site from Rate My Room to Rate My Space. It was believed to be changed due to pending trademark rights that already existed with RateMyRoom.net, another social network and interior decorating rating site that already existed. RateMyRoom.net is an online community for decorating enthusiasts to upload photo’s of their rooms, write and share reviews and get decorating advice. The room with the highest ratings gets prominetely displayed on the Featured Room Page.
7. margie | April 16th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
HI THERE IAM TYING TO GAT IN TUCH WITH THE POPLE ON DESIGNONA DINA .HOW DOW I DOW THAT ?PLASE HELP ME .AND THANK YOU .PS YOUR NOUST LOEY FIN EAVER MARGIE TRUAX
8. margie | April 16th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
HI THERE IAM TYING TO GAT IN TUCH WITH THE POPLE ON DESIGNONA DINA .HOW DOW I DOW THAT ?PLASE HELP ME .AND THANK YOU .PS YOUR NOUST LOEY FIN EAVER MARGIE TRUAX
9. margie | April 16th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
I REALY LOVE YOUR SHOW S ON HGTV . I WOLLD TO BE ABLE TO TALK WITH THE POPLE ON DESING ON A DIMA .SCURE HOPE YOU GAN GAT ME IN TUCH WITH THEM REALY SOON .YOUR MOUST LOREY FIND MARGIE
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