Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
From the monthly archives:
American Singles subscribers continue to decline while “other businesses” grow. Subscriber acquisition costs up almost 50% at JDate and 37% at American Singles due in part to new SAC metrics. I’ll leave it to you to dig into the details.
- Record EBITDAS1 Profit of $3.4 Million in Q1 ‘06
- Cash Flow from Operations [...]
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Now this is more like it. A mere two days after I discovered Rapleaf, Opinity announces they will be partners.
Opinity and RapLeaf have entered into an agreement to integrate their services so that they can:
• Pursue and delop ways to create and exchange value related to e-commerce ranking and reputation/reputability for the [...]
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This just in from the Yahoo PR machine:
Ask Desiree is a new portal with tons of great dating tips, polls and features. “Ask Desiree� allows singles to “ping� their dating questions to Desiree, check out fresh date activities and get advice on how to spiff up their online profile, all for free. Plus, Desiree comes [...]
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As the reputation and identity management market continues to heat up, last week’s press release from iKarma made my head spin trying to figure out the core message. The press release is a perfect example of trying to say too many things and ending up frustrating the reader. It’s imperative that companies stay away from [...]
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I thought I would take some time to find out about some of the value-added services that keep the Myspace economy humming.
When I started ProfileDoctor, I figured I would see what sort of cottage industry was going to spring up around dating sites. Back then, it’s was PD, a few competitors and LookBetterOnline. A handful [...]
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There is not much I will watch on network television besides Lost and 24 and Numbers. The tv is often on but it’s usually Netflix or cable. I was excited to learn that ABC is launching a a global interactive game based on Lost. The show will features a parallel story line which is not [...]
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Techdirt sez that Skype has a deal with EMI to sell VOIP ringtones.
Perhaps they’ll follow the iTunes model and use the tracks as a loss leader to try and attract people to Skype — but that would be even more questionable, since it doesn’t seem like Skype does a great job of turning downloaders into [...]
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I found this photo of Mike Jones on Esther Dyson’s Flickr account via Marc Canter. (How come Flickr doesn’t accept trackbacks and this triple-threat deep linking stuff is exhausting, where is the plug-in to track the links back themselves so I can cut-n-paste and move on?)
Here’s the text below the photo:
…While other vendors talk about [...]
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The New York Times article about Myspace is causing quite the commotion. The Social Software Weblog mentions the Tim O’Reilly post about 100,000 people making friends with the Wendy’s hamburger. If corporations are going to pony up $35k so I can put a hot dog or a Lexus on my pal list more power to [...]
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Ticonderoga Ventures, Inc. announces the second annual Asian Internet Dating Conference to be held on May 18-19, 2006 in Beijing at the Kempinski Hotel Beijing Lufthansa Center.
The Beijing Online Dating Conference will focus on management, technology and marketing to Asia and the Far East for the online personals industry. The focus of this year’s event [...]
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