by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
From ClickZ: Personals/dating held its position as the leading paid content category, with U.S. consumers spending $227.9 million in the first half of 2004. Spending in the business/investment category dropped 8 percent to third place, with $154.9 million this year...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
“Great things are happening at Match.com”, at least that’s what the copy of their latest email update says. Match is touting their email management features that “you may have missed.” If they’re smart they will offer a forwarding...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
Looks like the service is free until 1/31/05. The Yahoo! Personals Premier Guest List trial period is only open until January 31, 2005 at 11:59 PM PST. While you’re on the Guest List, you’ll have full access to all of the advanced searching and matching...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups, Online Dating Industry
Lorna Borenstein, a former eBay Inc. (EBAY) executive, is now vice president and general manager of Yahoo Personals. She replaces Katie Burke Mitic.
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups, Online Dating Industry
I’ve been AFK for a few days and just now catching up on the great links that people have been sending in. In a sign of trouble in the online dating business, personals company Spring Street Networks has reduced its staff by almost half to 12 employees to stem...