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Forbes has a rating of 3.2 stars from 115 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with Forbes most frequently mention stewart pinkerton. Forbes ranks 4th among Business News sites.

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Top Positive Review

“Have an interest in business”

Arie v.
1/3/24

Used to having a big interest to the business world and didn't hesitate acquiring forbes magazines to stay tuned. I always liked reading their magazines, cause there are many successful stories of different worldwide entrepeneurs. Other than that, forbes is considered to be the highest social media about financial. So, I'm a satisfied reader, fortunately, nowadays everything's digital.

Top Critical Review

“Extremely biased, irrational views.”

Cat S.
5/7/19

As a non communist, I'm not interested in reading political magazines that stand for communist dictatorship and oppression of people. This magazine clearly favours russian politics, why, I couldnt tell you. It wishes for people to have less freedom?

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RU
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December 28th, 2023

I daily read Forbes. Not I am not going to mimic billionaire lifestyle, but I wish to. There's a belief that forbes is either for those who have already reached success in life or for those who understand that they will never be able to attaing such heights and prefer leaf through pages enviously.
Can't state that I refer myself to some of these groups. For me it's a source of valuable;e financial knowledge in the first place. Back in the day I spent money on paper version, but nowadays everything is digital around us.

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Georgia
7 reviews
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April 24th, 2019

Used to be my one of favorite magazine but now it's just a biased site, spreading fake news. Though its a great website for business related information but the content is seriously going down with. And too many ads that it get annoyed.

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Japan
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February 8th, 2016

Forbes is one of my favorite site to get information about business & day-to-day affairs... Great site for those who has keen interest in knowing the market updates specially best for b-school candidates...

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Canada
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May 7th, 2019

As a non communist, I'm not interested in reading political magazines that stand for communist dictatorship and oppression of people. This magazine clearly favours russian politics, why, I couldnt tell you. It wishes for people to have less freedom?

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Texas
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October 12th, 2019

All media companies now exist for one reason, and it isn't to provide news. It's to create reasons for people to give them money, either directly with sales of their publications, or indirectly with advertising. Everything aside from making money is secondary at best. So any way possible that they can increase their bottom line is well inside what they are willing to do. Sadly, you can't trust ANY media outlet for real news today, but particularly greedy Forbes.

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Rhode Island
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June 10th, 2015

While the content of this site may be good, super opinionated but good, it os by far the worst site I have ever used on my phone. Just wanted to look at the pictures for a 1 through 10 ranking and it took over 10 minutes. Every time I got through 3 an add would pop up and put me back 2 pages. Load if crap in a smart phone era.

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Texas
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January 22nd, 2016

While reading about people that have "way more money" then I do can get me down sometimes, I've always enjoyed Forbes. Rich informative content that you can apply to your business and personal life from the pros that have did it themselves. So sure, 5 stars it is!

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California
1 review
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October 13th, 2019

It's just a bunch of idiots writing their opinions... most of the articles are written as it's speaking for everyone. Seems like they get their "news" from social media. Do not waste your time with Forbes!

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Nebraska
1 review
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September 7th, 2019

Of course Forbes pops up on google first when searching about certain games or gaming information. However, none of these articles deserve to show first. It's like hearing complaining on video games from people who don't ever play video games.
There are many more reliable sources for gaming information. Not to mention these better sources are usually non-biased. Forbes easily fits in with the huge media that looks down on gaming. Remember folks, if it gets good coverage, chances are it's worse than the games big media $#*!s on or gives no coverage at all.

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Florida
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September 30th, 2015

Forbes is known to be the most readable and rated magazine as well as their website is. I always have been wondered of the quality they write. Only interesting facts about business.
Recommended for adding to your bookmarks.

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New York
1 review
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October 19th, 2019

Forbes.com prevents users who block ads from viewing their website. For a company that puts out a list of the richest Americans, they must really be struggling. Their content is click bait and their writers are pretentious and inept at their jobs. I block all search results from Forbes.com now, and I highly suggest everyone else do the same. It will save you a tremendous amount of wasted time, because I assure you, there is nothing worth viewing on their website.

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Illinois
3 reviews
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April 22nd, 2015

As we all nurse the hangover from an era of financial excess, it's important to remember what a big part the business media played in the whole affair - and during the boom years on Wall Street no publication was more important than Forbes magazine. But Forbes fell apart for many of the same reasons as other institutions: because greed and hubris proved to be more powerful forces than the principled pursuit of excellence. Stewart Pinkerton, who was the magazine's managing editor for many years, gives us the inside story of the decline and fall of Forbes--and at the same time offers a salutary tale of what can happen when the infatuation with digital media erodes the kind of quality journalism that Forbes once upheld.

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North Carolina
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May 5th, 2013

Do not be tricked by Forbes' "free issue" offer. It is a deceptive scam. When clicking the offer, two options are presented: 1) Subscribe now and receive a special rate, or 2) Just send me a free issue.

I never got the free issue and am now receiving bills for something I never ordered. I am supposedly past due on the payment, but never agreed to it.

Total scam. Beware.

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Brazil
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January 22nd, 2019

Clearly biased toward certain social abd political groups. So if you are not part of those groups, you will find their content quite disturbing. Not the place to look for objectives analysis of situations.

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Canada
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April 30th, 2022

Great media. I read Forbes for 8 years and it always fresh and interesting. Journalists job on a high level! Recommend it to all! In my opinion it's much more better than The Economist or other similar website. The only one thing, I don't understand why sitejabber select the image with putin?

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California
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June 25th, 2019

I have read Forbes during the past years, and they always have feature stories or pieces on important subjects. More recently I read about the top 5 financial reports that a business should run. Great insights as to how you should run your business.

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Missouri
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August 25th, 2023

I will never trust a Forbes reviews again. They falsify ratings and curate reviews in order to gain customers for sub standard businesses. I got tied up with UFB Direct and AXOS Bank that took years off my life. Independent search of reviews of the company puts them at 2.5, Forbes lists them as 3.7-4. I want to make it very clear that I chose UFB because of the false/curated reviews Forbes provided.

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September 13th, 2022

An information tape that provides the freshest ups and downs of the universe. Provides useful advice and comprehensive support. There is no limit to my satisfaction. Subscribe and you will be intrigued by the world Forbes

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Canada
2 reviews
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April 6th, 2013

Forbes magazine is great. Their website is quite the opposite.

The pages load slow, they seem to have a lot of scripts in the background that are weighing it down (just signs of a poor IT department). Also, when you read a top 30 list, you must click and arrow and reload the page each time so to read a top 30 count down, you have to read 30 pages! It's ridiculous. I'm looking for a site that scrapes Forbes's ranking articles and combines it into 1 page.

Their magazine is so good, which makes it so tough to rate it 1/5.

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California
1 review
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September 7th, 2016

What a sh*tty site if you are forcing viewers to read 80% covered pages of ads and only 20% story. Ads are intrusive and collect personal data. I am not trying to sell my soul just to read about the next best creamy potato salad. Fk your site.

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Pennsylvania
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January 25th, 2017

It has gotten to the point where every article I read lies somewhere between "fake news" and "complete joke." I have yet to read a Forbes news article with any substance. High schoolers in an introductory literature class could take the jobs of Forbes journalists, and I haven't seen any improvement in content at all over the past few months.

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TW
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February 27th, 2020

I'm not a subscriber who writes this review, but I can say that I've been using Forbes Financial reports as part of my Far-East reports. I like the way they compile data and present it to the world. This 5-star review is the least I can do to repay for all the efforts.

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Florida
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January 27th, 2023

Content of Forbes has a relatively low value/quality as news. Articles are reverse-engendered to serve as bait for clicks and successful content is re-used multiple times. If you need well written, informative content, Forbes may be for you but if you need up to date information and news, look at a more serious source.

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Illinois
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February 1st, 2024

Forbes articles are not truthful, if they don't like someone they will continue to lie about that person. I found at least 7 that were not truthful, will never again

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Netherlands
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January 3rd, 2024

Used to having a big interest to the business world and didn't hesitate acquiring forbes magazines to stay tuned.
I always liked reading their magazines, cause there are many successful stories of different worldwide entrepeneurs. Other than that, forbes is considered to be the highest social media about financial.
So, I'm a satisfied reader, fortunately, nowadays everything's digital.

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