March 2008 - Page 7 of 9 - Online Dating Insider

Penthouse To File For $250 Million IPO

by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance

Penthouse Media Group, the troubled adult media company, plans to file for a $250 million IPO, the company has announced. It says it plans to file the S-1 in Q2 of this year. Penthouse acquired Various Inc. for $500 million in December 2007. Penthouse attempted an IPO...

SpeedDate: No Fake Profiles

by David Evans | Dating Markets

Dan Abelon (sorry for the misspelling earlier) wrote in to provide some additional information: We absolutely do not set users up with fake people. People do not respond because they are either looking at another site in another tab, or have stepped away from the...

The Web Statistics Game Just Got Interesting

by David Evans | Marketing

TNS acquired web analytics firm Compete for $75 Million – $150 Million. Tracking service Compete has been acquired by TNS (Taylor Nelson Sofres plc) out of London. Initial acquisition price is $75 million with an additional $75 million paid out over 2008-2010...

What The Heck is Going at At Match.com?

by David Evans | Uncategorized

Recently, I have been on several great dates and been deluged with emails and winks from some very cool women on Match.com. Did someone at Match optimize a database differently, tweak the search page, or are they spending more ad dollars in different ways? Whatever...