by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Money continues to fall out of trees for IAC’s Match.com empire. Revenue up 20% last quarter to $116.4M. They are making some very smart business deals and acquisitions and it shows on their balance sheets. Match customer acquisition costs seem to be dropping,...
by David Evans | Marketing
Markus at Plentyoffish asks whatever happened to old-school dating sites like Perfectmatch, Date, Matchmaker and Christian Cafe? Two years ago they were all in the top 20 and now they don’t even make the top 50. Jdate is barely in the top 40 itself, and that is...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Profiles & Matching, Social: Dating & Networking
Back from a week in the woods. Have to find a new place to live in the next few weeks and my car died, not how I expected my summer to go, but that’s life. Plentyoffish blog says that a recent IAC investor call featuring Match CEO Greg Blatt mentions the Okcupid...
by David Evans | Social: Dating & Networking
Yesterday I speculated at length about Match.com’s plans for Facebook. Since then, several readers wrote in to point me to the Stir application by Match that recently launched on Facebook. Match has taken a subset of its core functionality and is running it as...
by David Evans | Dating Research, Dating Site Features, Legal, Online Dating Innovation, Profiles & Matching, Social: Dating & Networking, Uncategorized
Given the previous post about Match supposedly wanting to build a Badoo clone on Facebook, I decided to poke around the raw html that the Match web servers send to web browsers, which in turn create the Match web pages we look at millions of times every day around the...