SpeedDate.com has announced real-time chat for their iPhone/ iPad dating app. With over 10 million users, SpeedDate dwarfs all over video-dating services in terms of sheer size. Usual caveat applies that there are not 10 million people online when you log in, only that 10 million people have created accounts, which is why the site appears pretty sparse when you limit search to your local area. Still, its a neat service used by a lot of people. Just wait until Facebook starts doing video, that is going to be *really* interesting to watch how they roll that out.
I had lunch yesterday with someone who knows mobile space intimately. Our discussion about mobile signups is reflected in the statistic that over the last six months, SpeedDate Mobile has accounted for over 30% of all new users.
Besides Woome, SpeedDate basically created and now owns the online speed dating marketplace in a few short years. Surprising that HurryDate didn’t try this, but Spark Networks, you know, kind of in a rut the last few years. Now SpeedDate’s revenue dwarfs HurryDate and a lot of traditional dating sites
Some top-10 dating site is going to buy SpeedDate, but who?
