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A Dating Industry Insider Rant 10-18-2006
October 18th, 2006 · 14 Comments
Sponsor Update: Thomas Technologies
October 17th, 2006 · 4 Comments
Thomas Technologies International (sponsor of this blog), announced today that Ave Maria Singles, a premium online Catholic singles network, has kicked off the fall with the integration of the Thomas suite of personality assessment tools. Ave Maria Singles will provide its members with Thomas’ personality assessment as well as Personal Feedback and Compatibility Reporting.
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Tags: PartnershipsOnline Dating Industry Weekly Recap
October 13th, 2006 · 1 Comment
Where did the week go? I’m busy with all sorts of client work, hence the slow posts. I’m building the next generation of online dating and social networking sites and helping solution providers build out their value proposition for top dating sites. I can’t talk about much, you’ll just have to see the fruits of [...]
Tags: Dating-Site - Niche - Partnerships - ResearchThomas Technologies Gives JLove.com Some Personality
August 30th, 2006 · 16 Comments
Thomas Technologies International, a leader in private-label behavioral assessment software and related personality reporting, has partnered with JLove LLC to offer JType™– a customized suite of Thomas’ web-dating applications.
Yoav Cohen, JLove’s founder and CEO:
JLove caters to professional, educated, serious minded Jewish singles looking for solid relationships. We’re committed to providing our members with quality features [...]
Tags: Dating-Site - Features - PartnershipsIncrediMail Private Labels Yahoo! Personals
July 27th, 2006 · No Comments
IncrediMail, a leading software company specializing in consumer email products, has dumped partner PointMatch, to hook up with Yahoo! Personals. IncrediMail will offer a co-branded version of the Yahoo! Personals service to IncrediMail users.
As far as I know, this is the first major partnerships Yahoo! has done with a company outside of the dating space. [...]
Tags: Dating-Site - PartnershipsMatch.com Running Google Adwords
July 27th, 2006 · No Comments
Andy Arnott, CTO of Collaboradate says that Match is running Google ads on people’s profile pages.
If you have logged into Match.com you have seen a new “ads provided by google” section. Did match finally wake up to the fact that they will be pushed out of the market? Many of the free dating sites have [...]
Tags: PartnershipsIntegrated Enterprises Acquires Rapid Dating
July 25th, 2006 · No Comments
Integrated Enterprises, a mobile marketing and direct response communications holding company based in Miami, and its subsidiary Love In A Flash, LLC announce the acquisition of Rapid Dating, Inc.
RapidDating was founded by dating coach Renee Piane, author of Love Mechanics. Integrated Enterprises is the holding company for Rapid Dating.com, a leading dating/relationship venue; for Centella, [...]
Tags: Dating-Site - Finance - PartnershipsMatch and Yahoo Partner in Europe
July 6th, 2006 · 4 Comments
Markus says that Yahoo and Match are working together in Europe. I would not have believed it unless I read this article or saw the UK Yahoo! Personals landing page. There is literally zero references to the deal in Yahoo News and a couple in Google. Judging by all the convoluted traffic sharing that appears [...]
Tags: Dating-Site - PartnershipsMatch Extends MSN AGreement
June 13th, 2006 · No Comments
Match.com today announced the extension of its global relationship with MSN. The multi-year agreement expands the companies’ existing partnership, which began in 2000. The MSN Dating and Personals service(1) powered by Match.com attracts more than 30 million visitors in 30 MSN markets(2) each month worldwide.
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Tags: PartnershipsThe Economics of Online Dating Innovation
March 15th, 2006 · 12 Comments
A new trend is emerging where free dating sites add the phrase Skype on their home page and call themselves the next generation of online dating. Let me say it here once and for all. Starting a new dating or social networking site with a core differentiator solely based on Skype or any other VOIP [...]
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