Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
From the monthly archives:
Thank you for playing “Let’s buy a professionally-produced viral video at a fraction of the cost.” We’re finishing up the final bids and putting the impromptu auction to bed. Thanks to all of you who contacted me about the opportunity. I’ll be reaching out to each of you to discuss other viral video options.
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A Toronto-based director would like to feature a prominent dating site in a 45-second cinema-quality (better than HD) viral commercial.
Can be used for web, phone, and broadcast.
Written by one of Toronto’s top advertising teams.
Production value of Cdn $120,000.
Director wants to sell the spot and will insert your company name, logo, web address.
The commercial is being [...]
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Match.com announced Q1 2009 financial results today. Don’t worry, It’s Ok To look. Match.com has had a busy past few months. In December, Match.com Experiences Strongest November in Seven Years. With the launch of the Daily5, which introduces five new matches daily to every member, Match.com members initiated 400,000 more connections with other members this [...]
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The Google Blog post Search for “me” on Google caught my attention.
To give you greater control over what people find when they search for your name, we’ve begun to show Google profile results at the bottom of U.S. name-query search pages. These results offer abbreviated information from user-created Google profiles and a link to the [...]
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This just in from Coolest Gadgets:
One year ago, I reported on the INBED, a way of projecting a 2D Girlfriend as the user’s bedmate. A lot of people commented on that one, saying that the technology was a somewhat perverted, and that the user should go out and get a real girlfriend.
Fortunately, Mutsugoto has developed [...]
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Developers are starting to go crazy with the Google Analytics API.
MailChimp has integrated Google Analytics into their email marketing platform and ShufflePoint® provides a service for adding Google Analytics data into PowerPoint® presentations. See how youcalc has created apps that allow you to mashup Google Analytics, AdWords, Salesforce.com and other enterprise data.
Check out more customer [...]
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In 2004 I went to visit my god daughter in San Francisco. At the same time, Rich Goss, the founder of American Singles, was having a singles event. Evan Katz (Advice from a Single Dating Expert), Meir (Date), Mark Brooks (Online Personals Watch) and Mike Jones (Userplane) were all there, along with a bunch of [...]
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Thanks to Hylton at Corante (where this blog used to be hosted) for pointing out this decidedly modern look at the current art of flirting. Original at Jesspiration.
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Are You Interested offers Meebo chat. Have you seen the new website?
Sparkbliss.com is looking for a talented CEO, email them at jobs@sparkbliss.com.
DIY Unfaithfulness Tests.
This spam email caught my eye, but no, Match.com is not launching a social network. The woman in a Match ad is showing a heck of a lot of skin, the [...]
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Free dating site Youandme has integrated Honesty Online and iovation as part of their safety and security measures.
Steven Sikes, one of youandme’s founders says:
“We easily could have over 50,000 online dating members, but we’ve banned thousands of spammers and scammers. Working with Iovation and Honesty Online should mitigate this problem and help YOUAND.ME to [...]
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