Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
From the category archives:
Loïc Le Meur, Seesmic founder, talks about the lack of understanding and cultural differences between American and European entrepreneurs.
Meetic is the #1 dating site in Europe, created by Marc Simoncini (disclosure, I am a board member), it has more than 100 million euros in revenues, present in 20+ countries and Marc has not sold to [...]
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I was reading about Chinese neocon nationalists in the New Yorker and came across this:
Parents shopping for suitable mates for their children gather in the city’s parks most weekends to scrutinize and discuss the resumes of candidates, handwritten on bits of paper and torn sheets of cardboard taped to trees, resting on benches, and leaning [...]
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As soon as I wrote about Match.com’s international expansion, I see that eHarmony is officially looking to move into the Chinese dating market.
EHarmony has been bolstered by a Beijing University study that shows its matching technology can be successfully adapted there.
“We found the models to be highly effective in that we can predict successful marriages [...]
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Huge news out of Dallas. Match.com has signed two distribution partnerships in Australia and Latin America which will allow it to reach more than eight million people a month in Australia.
In Latin America, Match.com has partnered with Terra, the region’s largest Internet portal, to become the exclusive online dating provider for Terra’s sites in 18 [...]
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European dating network Parship has doubled revenue to $46 million Euros in a single year.
Until recently, premium matchmaking services were viewed as a niche segment of the mainstream online dating market, which is dominated by players with big TV campaigns and even bigger boasts about their membership. It is now apparent that the market is [...]
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Date.com has chosen Enlaso to assist in translating and localizing their three dating sites — Date.com, Matchmaker.com and Amor.com — into Spanish, Portuguese, and German. Before the end of 2009, Date.com plans to have its dating sites available in 18 languages to better accommodate its growing subscriber base from outside the US and to assist [...]
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Samat Mutra had written a five-part series on Web 3.0 & Gannett.
Gannett (GCI) publishes 85 daily newspapers, nearly 1,000 non-daily publications and 23 television stations in the US. In the UK, Gannett publishes 17 daily newspapers and around 300 non-daily publications. Gannett’s popular newspaper USA TODAY with a circulation of 7.3 million is the US’s [...]
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Unflattering numbers from Match.com this quarter. One percent membership growth! No wonder they are raising prices and looking to the UK and Asia for growth.
Acquistion costs are lower as a percentage of revenue, probably due to price increases, no reduction in CPA.
Revenue up 11% from $78.3 to $86.6 million.
Operating Income Before Amortization up 13% from [...]
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Baihe.Com, a leading Chinese match making portal, will screen its eight million online daters against an “ID authentication system�. The new system was jointly developed by the website and the ministry of public security. The system will check the age, marital status and other personal details of prospective cyber daters against an official database to [...]
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The Los Angeles Times writes about internet dating in Iraq, and the online sociology of warzones. Between arranged marriages, little time alone with the opposite sex and the ever-present threat of violence, Iraqi citizens are relying more and more on the Internet to stay in touch.
Via BoingBoing.
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