by David Evans | Online Dating Industry
uDate announced the appointment of new Vice-President of Sales and Marketing (Europe). Riccardo Zacconi has been a successful entrepreneurial and consulting career, most recently with Benchmark Capital (London), where he was Entrepreneur in Residence and before as...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
NYT article about Elle magazine’s blunt-as-an-anvil dating columnist, E. Jean Carroll, started a Web site, www.greatboyfriends .com, on which women recommend men to other women. Who could resist a website that tells you to go fill your martini glass, doll. This...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
USA Today wrote on 5-22/02 that “Citing customer complaints, Yahoo will soon drop a fee it began charging in October to people who want to place enhanced personal advertisements on its online dating service. But people browsing Yahoo’s personals...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
uDate owns uDate.com and kiss.com. they reported that Net income before tax for the three months ended September 30, 2002 rose to $3.4 million, representing growth of 554% year on year and 18% quarter on quarter. Subscriber numbers fluctuate with marketing initiatives...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
From the match.com website, we read that “during 2001, Match.com generated $49.2 million in revenue and $16.5 million in EBITDA with more than 382,000 paying subscribers at the end of the fourth quarter.”