Shit Hot Infographics is a UK-based blog that collects and publishes infographics, run by David Eaves since its archive opens in November 2013. The premise is narrow and clear: it gathers visual content from third-party creators and organisations, sorts it into more than 80 topic categories, and presents it as a browsable library. Those categories span business, technology, health, finance, education, travel, entertainment and construction, a wide enough net that most readers hunting for a chart-driven explainer on a given subject will find a relevant cluster.
How the curation model works
The content is curated, not original. Items are aggregated from named outside sources, including Visual Capitalist and Invesp, two outfits that produce strong data visualisations. Pulling from credited creators puts Shit Hot Infographics in the role of a discovery layer: it does not make the graphics, it finds and reposts the ones worth seeing. That model lives or dies on editorial taste, and the multi-year archive at least points to a steady hand keeping the shelves stocked rather than a project abandoned after a burst of early enthusiasm.
Submit and promotion services
There is more to the site than passive browsing. A Submit section lets infographic creators send their own work in for possible publication, giving Shit Hot Infographics a second function as an inbound channel for designers chasing eyeballs. Alongside that sits a paid infographic promotion service aimed at businesses that want wider exposure for their visual content. The audience splits in two directions: readers come to consume, while creators and marketers come to distribute. That dual purpose is common enough among content blogs that try to fund themselves, and here it is stated openly so nobody should feel misled about what the promotion offering actually is.
Finding other infographic sources
The Directory section is the part most likely to interest someone hunting for resources beyond this one site. Described as a business directory of quality infographic sources, it lists and reviews other notable destinations, including free infographic sites, with statistics and ratings attached. A blog that points you toward its competitors and grades them is doing something more useful than hoarding traffic, and for anyone mapping out where good visual data lives online, that curated index of other destinations may end up more valuable than any single graphic on the page. An RSS feed through Feedburner rounds out the ways to keep up, a slightly dated mechanism but still functional for people who run their own readers.
Behind the scenes and online presence
On the question of who stands behind it, the picture is mixed but not troubling. A named founder and a Contact page reachable straight from the main navigation are both points in favour of Shit Hot Infographics, and the footer carries Facebook and Twitter links for anyone who prefers to reach out through social channels. What is absent from the landing page is a phone number or a street address, so the contact route is essentially digital. For a one-person infographic blog that pattern is entirely normal, though anyone weighing the paid promotion service would do well to test responsiveness with a quick message before sending any money.
The outside reputation is where things stay quiet. No ratings or review counts turned up on Google, Trustpilot, Yelp or comparable platforms, so there is no crowd verdict to lean on either way. Shit Hot Infographics does appear in established web directories such as Best of the Web, but that listing is brief and carries no scores. The absence of reviews is not the same as bad reviews; a niche curation blog of this kind rarely accumulates the kind of customer feedback a shop or service provider would. A visitor used to checking star ratings before trusting a source will not find that here, and the honest read is that the site has to be judged on its own contents.
Taken together, Shit Hot Infographics works best as a free, long-running place to graze for visual explainers and to find pointers toward other good infographic sources. The paid promotion angle is a separate proposition that deserves more diligence than the browsing experience does.
Set against something like Visual Capitalist, which it draws from and which produces polished original research-led graphics under a known editorial team, Shit Hot Infographics is the lighter, aggregator-style option: broader in topic range and useful as a jumping-off point, but secondhand by design where Visual Capitalist is the primary source. David Eaves has kept it running for over a decade, which puts it ahead of the many similar aggregator blogs that went dark years ago. The depth is not there, but the variety and the directory of alternatives give it a purpose that holds up on its own terms.
