In reply to iksander:
It is a fair point about that text - we should look at making it a bit clearer.
All Product News is from paying advertisers and the copy for Product News items is mostly supplied by the advertisers. There may be historical Product News items from companies that aren't advertisers, by you can pretty well assume that everything on the left-hand side of this page
http://www.ukclimbing.com/gear/ with a Blue Header is Product News paid for by advertisers. The right-hand side of the page is our UKC-sourced Gear Reviews.
For example this is a comparison Product News with manufacturer information:
http://www.ukclimbing.com/gear/news.php?id=4194
... and this is a comparison Gear Review with a bunch of products which have been reviewed:
http://www.ukclimbing.com/gear/review.php?id=3625
The latter takes us a lot more work.
I realise that this may not be a totally clear distinction for the user so it is something we should look at, however it is difficult to avoid a certain amount of advertorial ambiguity. This is not a problem unique to web sites though since magazines and newspaper have had the same problem for years.
Thanks for your feedback.
Alan