Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
From the monthly archives:
Two items of interest from Online Dating Insider sponsors.
iovation Partners with IDology to Combat Online Fraud and ID Theft
iovation, the Device Reputation Authorityâ„¢ for the Internet, and IDology, Inc., an innovative provider of identity and age verification solutions, today announced a partnership to provide online businesses with a stronger, multi-layered authentication and fraud prevention solution [...]
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Mail.ru, a major portal in Russia and the country’s first billion-dollar internet firm, has purchased a 30 percent stake in online dating site Mamba for $15 million. Read the rest, including an overview of the Russian dating marketing, at Marketing Vox.
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Andrew Chen guest posts at Startonomics, 5 Startup tips for Maximixing Ad Revenue.
Startanomics is a conference happening in October were Andrew will lead a session on:
Revenue: The Internet Wants to Be Free, but You Need to Get Paid
Learn how to generate revenue using a variety of business models & strategies including advertising, digital [...]
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Spectacular weather here in Boston this week. Yesterday’s al fresco meeting on Newbury Street briefly touched on SpeedDate, which announced that it has raised an additional $6 million. Competitor Woome got in trouble when they used Chace Crawford’s (Gossip Girls) photo on the homepage and forgot to ask permission, oops!
Spend a dollar at AirbrushDate and [...]
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UK firm Phones 4u and the 3G Dating Agency are bundling mobile phones with a dating service. I love that the 3G Dating Agency is utilizing QR barcodes and 3G phones with video capabilities. In five years we will all be using QR codes, I bet marketers and American Idol will embrace the technology and [...]
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Using Utterz for today’s today’s podcast.
Today’s audio blog topics:
Gender-bending Match.com thinks my women are men.
Match.com powers Penguin books dating site. Via Mynameiskate.
Speed Dating Goes White Label with Randodate.
DatingAdNetwork blog: Dmitry from RussianFlora talks about foreign brides scam fighting, while Julia from Pilot Group shares her thoughts on dating start-ups and more. http://blog.datingadnetwork.com/
I received this from [...]
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OmniDate has landed it’s first dating site as a customer. Ireland’s AnotherFriend now offers virtual dating to it’s 200,000 members.
OmniDate is a mashup up Userplane, IMVU and OKCupid.
OmniDate says that sites that don’t use their system are second rate. Perhaps not the best way to introduce yourself to the industry. That’s desperation marketing, whereas OmniDate [...]
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Jeremiah Wang writes a terrific weekly digest of what’s happening in the social networking world. A must-read for online dating executives, who should be looking directly at social nets for inspiration.
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