Welcome to Top Brands Search, your number one destination for discovering the best brands across all categories. Our mission is to be the most comprehensive and helpful brand search platform on the web.
Our Story
Top Brands Search was founded in 2022 by a small team of passionate shoppers. We know how difficult it can be to find reliable information about brands in today’s crowded online marketplace. There are so many products and companies vying for your attention that it’s hard to know which ones live up to their promises.
We created Top Brands Search to be a trustworthy guide for shoppers like us who want to make informed purchasing decisions. Our platform allows you to search for brands by product category or name to pull up detailed overviews, reviews, price comparisons, and more. We do the research so you can find brands that meet your needs and avoid wasting money on duds.
Over the past year, our team has vetted hundreds of leading brands across fashion, tech, home goods, personal care, pets, kids, and more. We continue to grow our database daily by digging into each brand’s background, reputation, transparency, quality, sustainability, and other factors you should know before buying.
Here at Top Brands Search, we pledge to always provide our honest take on brands. We are not beholden to any retailers or manufacturers – our loyalty lies with shoppers and delivering the facts you need.
Our Values
Several core values guide our work at Top Brands Search:
- Authenticity: We always give our real, unbiased opinions of each brand. You can trust what you read.
- Transparency: If a brand pays for placement on our site, we disclose that clearly.
- Comprehensiveness: We strive to cover all the top brands shoppers want to know about.
- Usefulness: Our goal is to equip you to make smarter purchases suited to your needs.
- Community: User reviews and comments allow us to improve our brand profiles continually.
Meet the Team
The Top Brands Search team includes experienced researchers, writers, designers, developers, and e-commerce experts who are passionate about helping people navigate the modern retail landscape.
Leadership
Our founders and leadership team have decades of combined experience building successful online brands and platforms. They provide the vision and strategy for Top Brands Search as we work to create the web’s most useful brand discovery resource.
Researchers
Our research specialists dig deep into each brand’s history, reputation, manufacturing processes, leadership, controversies, sustainability practices, and more. Their findings inform our brand profiles.
Writers
Our writing team takes the research and transforms it into compelling, useful brand reviews. They focus on giving readers the key facts and context to evaluate brands easily.
Designers
Our designers create a seamless, intuitive website experience that makes finding brands by category or name simple. Their work enhances the value we provide to shoppers.
Developers
Our developers build our website using the latest technologies to ensure fast load times, a smooth user experience, and the ability to scale along with our growing brand database.
You
The Top Brands Search community plays a vital role by contributing reviews, reporting issues, and giving feedback to enhance our brand profiles. We rely on your real-world experiences with brands to improve continuously.
The Brand Search Process
We use a rigorous process to research, evaluate, and review brands for inclusion on Top Brands Search:
- Selection: Our team nominates popular brands across all categories that shoppers typically want guidance on. We focus on brands with an established reputation and availability.
- Research: We thoroughly research each brand’s background, products, company practices, reviews, controversies, and other key info shoppers need. Our sources include brand websites, industry reports, news articles, user reviews, watchdogs, and more.
- Evaluation: We carefully assess things like product quality, value, transparency, sustainability, ethics, and service for each brand based on the research findings. This allows us to form an objective opinion.
- Writing: Our writers distill the research and evaluation into succinct, useful brand reviews. We highlight important brand facts and provide context to help you evaluate brands.
- Review: Our editorial team reviews each brand profile to ensure it is accurate, fair, comprehensive, and aligned with our values.
- Publication: Once we’ve completed the vetting process, we publish helpful, honest brand profiles to empower your purchasing decisions.
- Monitoring: We continually update brand profiles as needed when new products, controversies, or noteworthy changes occur so you always have the latest information.
The Categories We Cover
Top Brands Search aims to provide helpful brand reviews across all major e-commerce categories. Currently, we cover:
- Fashion: Clothing, shoes, accessories, and jewelry brands.
- Beauty: Cosmetics, skincare, haircare, fragrances, and bath/body brands.
- Electronics: Phone, laptop, TV, smart home device, and accessory brands.
- Home & Kitchen: Furniture, kitchenware, decor, and appliance brands.
- Garden: Tools, outdoor furniture, grill, and landscaping brands.
- Fitness: Equipment, apparel, tracker brands, and supplements.
- Grocery: Food, beverage, alcohol brands plus organic and dietary brands.
- Personal Care: Oral care, shaving, hair removal brands, and more.
- Pets: Pet food, toy, crate, and accessory brands.
- Baby & Kids: Diaper, clothing, toy, furniture, and safety brands.
We are continually expanding into new categories based on user requests and the most popular search trends. Our goal is to provide helpful insights into all major brands shoppers want to research.
User-Generated Content
We believe user reviews and feedback are key to providing a complete perspective on a brand. That’s why we incorporate ratings, reviews, and Q&As from the Top Brands Search community into our brand profiles.
Here are some ways you can contribute your knowledge:
- Write Reviews: Share your first-hand experiences purchasing from and using a brand’s products through ratings and written reviews.
- Ask & Answer: Have a question about a brand you want answered? Post it and rely on other users or our staff to provide helpful responses.
- Submit Photos: Upload photos of you using brands’ products to give visual examples of real-world performance and quality.
- Report Issues: Alert us if a brand profile seems inaccurate, biased, or missing key details so we can investigate and improve it.
User-generated content gives future shoppers more touchpoints to evaluate brands. We moderate all contributions to ensure recommendations remain appropriate and useful.
Our Brand Rating Methodology
We developed a clear, consistent system to rate the thousands of brands on Top Brands Search to take the guesswork out of judging quality. Our ratings rely on:
- Product Quality: How well are products designed, manufactured, and perform compared to competitors?
- Value: Do products provide good bang for your buck compared to rival brands?
- Transparency: How much key info does the brand publicly share about products, policies, practices, etc.?
- Sustainability: What efforts does the brand make regarding ethical sourcing, environmental footprint, etc.?
- Treatment of Customers: Does the brand have a track record of good service, fair policies, responsiveness, etc.?
- Treatment of Employees: Does the brand cultivate a healthy, ethical workplace culture?
- Reputation: What is the overall market perception of the brand among consumers, experts, and watchdogs?
Brands receive an overall rating from 1-5 stars based on their performance across these seven criteria. Read our full brand rating methodology guide to learn more.
Shopping Integrations
We make it easy for you to go from researching brands on Top Brands Search to purchasing their products through our shopping integrations.
You’ll find direct links to featured brands on their official sites so you can buy from the source. For wider product selection, we integrate top trusted retailers like Amazon, Walmart, Target, and eBay.
You can start your brand research then complete your purchase in just a few clicks without ever leaving our site. We may earn small commissions from qualifying purchases which helps support our work.
The Future of Top Brands Search
Since launching in 2022, Top Brands Search has experienced tremendous growth in users, brands covered, and resources offered to shoppers. But we are just getting started in our mission to provide the most useful brand discovery platform on the web.
Here’s a preview of what you can expect next from Top Brands Search:
- Expanded brand database: We are continuously researching, evaluating, and adding new brand profiles across even more categories.
- Comprehensive brand comparison tools: We are building out dedicated comparison pages for you to evaluate multiple brands in a category by the features and specs that matter most.
- More expert guidance: Increased investment in original research, reports, buying guides, and other resources to provide shopping expertise.
- Enhanced search and discovery: Implementing advanced search functionality, curated brand recommendations, and additional ways to easily find relevant brands.
- Reliable product reviews: Expanding our investment in original, in-depth product tests and reviews to share performance insights on specific items.
- Community growth: Encouraging more user-generated ratings, reviews, Q&As, photos, and other first-hand brand insights. Moderating contributions to maintain usefulness.
We are dedicated to building Top Brands Search into the ultimate brand discovery resource you can trust for any purchasing decision. Thank you for choosing us as your go-to brand research platform!
