Online Dating Industry Consulting & Commentary
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Online Dating Insider delivers cutting-edge insight and commentary on all aspects of the online dating industry. Topics include industry news, site reviews, emerging trends, analysis of dating site features, discussion about safety, finance and other issues important to the online dating market. Don’t miss our Startups directory, useful to anyone running dating or social networking [...]
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WhiteLabelDating has announced that Rick Jones has been named marketing director and appointed as a board member. Jones has 11 years online marketing experience and joins WLD from Greenbee.com, John Lewis’ services arm. As head of marketing he was responsible for the development and re-launch of the Greenbee brand as well as overseeing marketing of [...]
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Mandy Ginsberg at Match just called to fill me in on the Match deal with Meetic. I’m busy talking with people about the deal, In the meantime I wanted to let you know that Match has a new CEO.
IAC announced today that Greg Blatt, currently IAC’s Executive Vice President and General Counsel, has been named Chief [...]
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As Plentyoffish continues to grow, owner Markus Frind is looking to hire additional staff. He is tired of building servers and tending to storage arrays. Great problems to have when you’re making several million dollars a year working a few hours a day. I respectfully submit my resume to be his chief innovation officer, kidding.
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Mandy Ginsberg, General Manager of Chemistry.com, has been named GM and SVP for all North American operations at Match.com. Ginsberg replaces Craig Wax, who is no longer with the company.
Congrats to Mandy, who I finally got to meet in person at iDate in Miami this year. Match CEO Thomas Enraght-Moony was GM and SVP for [...]
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Back from a few days on Nantucket. I feel like I’ve been away for a month. Next week I’m taking a few days off as well, need to get in some summertime fun while it lasts.
ReadWriteWeb says:
More than 10% of the searches for the top 10 dating search terms were URLs (match.com, plentyoffish.com) and almost [...]
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Eharmony is looking for a Data Modeller / Architect.
Perform data design in transactional, reporting and data warehouse database environments accessed by global applications. Supporting several development teams simultaneously, analyze system requirements and data to create logical and physical data models conforming to corporate standards. Create data mappings and specifications for ETL routines, DML for data [...]
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World Dating Partners has hired Christine Johanson to be the new CEO of North American Operations. Christine is tasked with managing and further developing WDP alliances with leading North American brands. Before joining World Dating Partners, Christine was Head of the Global Strategies Division of NeuStar Ultra Services, an organization which works with the largest [...]
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Jim Safka has been named CEO of Ask.com effective immediately.
He will oversee Ask.com’s global operations and continue in his role as CEO of Primal Ventures, a new-venture entity that identifies seeds and incubates business opportunities for IAC (NSDQ: IACI). He was appointed to that role last year after serving as CEO of Match.com from 2004 [...]
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Anna Zornosa is leaving Yahoo! Personals.
Today we are announcing a transition in leadership within Yahoo! Personals. After two years driving Yahoo! Personals to be one of the leading online dating sites in the industry, Anna Zornosa has decided to pursue a career opportunity outside of Yahoo!
Yahoo! Personals has realized significant growth and delivered enormous value [...]
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