Reviewed 2013-06-22 l Last update on 2023-08-24
Spy Archive, in its own words, offers "offers you tons of authentic voyeur videos and pictures." Based on the previews available on the tour pages, it looks like this one has a wide variety of voyeur style materials on offer including spycam style videos, nude beach shots, up-skirts, and more. Beyond the preview shots, there isn't a lot of information on the outside of the site, so let's go inside the members only area to find out just how well they stack up against the competition.
The first thing that stood out to me here at caps by Archive with the large size of the collection. The video section is even larger than the photo section with over 1175 video clips and around 335 small photo galleries. It looks like users can probably expect at least one update per day, although the archived materials aren't dated and the only update information I found was on the main page of the members area. While there is a very large number of video clips available here, they are precisely that: clips. None of the videos I viewed here were longer than 3 minutes or so, and many of them can be far shorter. That being said, these clips are pretty much in line with what I've seen on other voyeur seemed amateur collections.
Spy Archive is obviously meant to be patterned after popular social networking sites like Facebook. In fact, the site updates are displayed in a "news feed" style section in the center column of the site, exactly the way you would see your friends status updates. Although the site has a very different layout than most other amateur, user submitted themed sites I have visited, the materials here are pretty much in line with what I expected and appear to come from a wide variety of sources. These materials are probably not submitted by the people who actually appear in them as the site seems to imply, but they do a good job of offering genuine amateur stuff and you won't see a bunch of recognizable porn stars and pro porn style stuff. The photo section here features almost exclusively up-skirts and nutrient bikini beach shots. The video section is where you'll find the real variety, with all kinds of voyeur style materials that allow you the fantasy of peeking in on hot babes in the shower or dressing room, watching a real couple get it on in their bedroom, or spying on a horny cutie home alone as she masturbates. As I mentioned, the materials here aren't "full scenes" like you may be used to seeing on more general porn sites and are instead just clips that often begin and end smack in the middle of the action.
It probably won't surprise you when I say that the materials here vary considerably in terms of quality, dimensions, bitrates, and other attributes. The flicks I downloaded were offered at a size of 640 x 480 pixels in with a bitrate of over 1000 kbps, the actual quality level I saw on my screen was all over the place. Some of these videos look quite nice while others, frankly, can look pretty bad. The photo materials very similarly in quality but are perhaps a little more consistent than in the videos.
As I mentioned, the members area here is specifically set up to mimic popular social networking sites. Updates to the site come in a newsfeed style section, and you can fill out your own profile. You can thumbs-up and comment on the materials just like on Facebook. Although the layout much of the functioning is similar to a social networking site, it does not appear that you can actually add people as friends or contacts within the site. Additionally, the video and photo materials can each be found in their own section so you don't have to scroll endlessly in the newsfeed to see everything.
Overall, the site could use more information about the scenes and a more user-friendly layout. While I found the social networking style layout to be interesting and it certainly set the site apart from other similarly themed collections, I don't think actually a particularly helpful way of setting up a site like this. I did appreciate the various categories provided on the left-hand column, which included things like spying at home, tanning bed, window peeping, and beach sex.
The photo updates at Spy Archive often include a small set of unrelated photos that are presented in an album format. You can download individual images or a full problem in a ZIP file. Flash streaming is provided for the videos, and MP4 format downloads are also available. Each of these formats is offered only at a single quality level.
While the social networking site style layout of the members area here certainly makes it stand out to me when I think back to other voyeur seemed amateur collections I have visited over the years, I was disappointed at the lack of true interactive features and I'm not really convinced that this kind of setup is the best way to go for a collection such as this. The sites main selling point is its large video clips section which does admittedly contain a considerable amount of variation within the voyeur category.
