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Meetic continues as the leader in certain parts Europe. 8.3 million visitors in May, market share in the 50% range in France, Italy and Spanish markets. I wish Match and Yahoo would provide more details about their EU market share for comparison. Last year they were all splitting hairs about how to define the most popular sites. Need more data.
If you’re going to send a press release, send it as plain text with a link to the release on your site. PDF’s are not good for this.
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Germany to
And meetic got france
Latest Nielsen//NetRatings figures show that Match is the largest dating provider in the UK, with over 1.6m unique users in the quarter to April 2006. In the same period Yahoo! Personals clocked up 915,000 unique users in the UK, taking second place.
The combined users of Yahoo! Personals and Match.com will be three times as many as nearest rival LoopyLove, which had 852,000 unique users Share of online personals sector in UK (Feb-Apr 2006)
in the quarter to April, and more than four times the Nielsen figures for rival Dating Direct, which had 662,000 unique UK users in the same period.