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Zoosk has a new Director of marketing communications, welcome to Kate Brooks.
Zoosk has 50 million members in just over 2 years with 100,000 new singles joining the community daily. Zoosk is clearly comparing themselves with the top five paid dating sites. Ballsy comparison, but one look at Zoosk and you’ll see that it’s basically morphed into a dating site, with some useful features like paying to show up more prominently in the search results.
Zoosk is spending an ungodly amount of money on advertising and their affiliate program seems to be liked by the big affiliates. I can’t visit five web pages or Youtube videos without seeing a Zoosk ad. Their numbers are going through the roof.
Zoosk’s primary competition wrote in to say that the AreYouInterested mobile application passed 100,000 downloads.
While updating my Yahoo IM avatar I ran across Yahoo Avatar Town. I liked the female welcome avatar, but I was unable to flirt with her.
I wish Online Personals Watch would stop promoting adultery by writing about it so often. That kind of behavior does not reflect well on their brand or the online dating industry as a whole.
I’ve been looking at Flirtomatic, the popular London-based mobile social network Similar to Zoosk Boost and various ways dating sites get people to pay to show up at the top of search results, Flirtomatic launches Flirtwords — ‘AdSense’ for users. What a great idea.
Flirtomatic launches an iPhone application.
Mark Curtis of Flirtomatic shows us around their office.
Pondigo is a dating site for single alumni from our nation’s top colleges, universities, and graduate programs. Ring-knockers rejoice, the service verifies that all of its members are graduates of a short list of top academic programs ranging from Harvard University to Stanford Business School, Amherst College to the University of Virginia Law School.
Seduce people on Chatroulette and French Connection will send you a voucher to spend on their clothes.
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The new GirlAskHimOut dating site is pretty self-explanatory.
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Breaking Up? Call Death Bear.
