by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
I received an email from 15minutedate.com. It’s a blind date, scheduled for Sunday night at 12 am. Who schedules a meeting then? All the site says is “Match ID 42â€?. Waiting for me to confirm. Why would I stay up until midnight to have a videochat with what...
by David Evans | Dating Research, Dating Sites & Startups
And here I thought eHarmony was going to launch in Europe first. Turns out Canada is the latest in Eharmony’s expansion plans. Check out eharmony.ca. I bet Markus is quaking in his boots. Eharmony recently launched eHarmonyLabs, a commercial research...
by David Evans | Dating Research
Nate Elliot at Jupiter Research has a new dating industry report out. Nate thinks online dating will be a $932 million dollar industry of 11 million singles by 2011. I need to dig up his predictions from 2003 and compare them to where we are today. What he...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
Markus quotes IAC Barry Diller: On social networking: Match.com is our play in social networking…a pure social network site–not that they are of value–no one has yet proved it is the easiest advertising medium. Pure social network is an upgrade from the princess...
by David Evans | Marketing
Looks like Mate1 is following True and Match by buying up cheap Myspace ad inventory. I’m waiting for some intrepid single to make an end run around dating sites by buying ad space on Myspace and putting up his photo with a link to his Myspace page or personal...