Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
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I looked at the visitor stats for Online Dating Insider and saw that today for the first time there are over 1,000 people reading this blog via email and RSS newsreader. The number goes up and down every day by as much as 100, depending on several factors out of my control, so by the [...]
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As the peak internet dating season approaches, Plentyoffish continues to trounce the free dating site competition. In the international arena, 7.2 million people in the UK visited the worlds largest free dating site in October, as opposed to 4.3 million and 2.1 million for Meetic and Match, respectively.
The press release I received states that a [...]
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PersonalityPro has announced Singles365.com , one of the UK’s largest dating sites, successfully launched PersonalityPro’s Personality Assessment Suite of tools including – Personality Assessment and Essay Coaching, Search Tools and Compatibility reporting.
I’ve been keeping tabs on PersonalityPro over the years. Patrick Marshall and his team have assembled a suite of personality assessment tools that appear [...]
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Lawmakers in New Jersey have pushed the Internet Dating Safety Act through to the next step of the lawmaking process, even though most agreed the bill is based on allegedly incomplete and inconclusive background checks.
The difference between screening and background checks comes into play here, and most bills have failed to differentiate between the two.
Nine [...]
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Yahoo! Personals just introduced several updates to the searching and matching features.
Yahoo! Personals daters performing an average of 3.6 searches per day in their quest for that connection. In addition to a visual refresh that features new profile cards that more clearly convey information, additional enhancements include:
- New matching capabilities that improve search relevance by [...]
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Techcrunch is now saying that the potential suitor for adult dating site AdultFriendFinder and scores of other sites owned by parent company Various, Inc., may be Penthouse, and that the price was closer to $500 million.
On Saturday I mentioned Michael Arrington wrote that AdultFriendFinder may have been acquired for more than the $1 billion. This [...]
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TechCrunch is pushing a rumor that FriendFinder was acquired for more than a billion dollars. What a windfall for founder Andrew Conru if it’s true. Just a few months ago people were saying that Friendfinder (and parent company Various, Inc.), was not a palatable acquisition target due to the nature of the some of the [...]
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The unofficial eHarmony blog has published the November 14 chat transcript for a conversation with J. Galen Buckwalter, Ph.D., Vice President, Research and Development at eHarmony.
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Tehcrunch is throwing a party for 700 people in Boston tonight. Judging from previous parties, this one should not disappoint. My liver is shuddering at the thought of hitting the after party.
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