Hinge As The Anti-Tinder
The Hinge dating site story is interesting. Hinge is built on the backs of Tinder and the handful of sites that have previously attempted to leverage the Facebook social graph by enabling friends to discover friends of friends and match each other. Everyone else has...Ashley Madison Charges $19 To Delete Your Profile
Last year I went to Toronto on business to meet with a dating site in stealth mode. While I was there I spent some time at the offices of Ashley Madison. I don’t particularly love the particular brand of Kool-Aid that they were selling, but that’s besides...Cupid PLC Is In Trouble
Several years ago Cupid PLC was on what appeared to be a strong growth trajectory. Today we find the companies’ revenue slashed by half and the growing possibility of selling off some of their sites. This is what happens when a business grows in unsustainable...Snap Interactive August Subscriber Metrics
Thanks to SNAP Interactive for showing a little bit of skin. It’s rare and great to be able to get a look at key metrics for dating sites. Cliff Lerner’s quote was interesting: It’s difficult to gain subscribers in August because of seasonal...Spark Networks CEO Greg Liberman Leaves the Building
Greg Liberman spent half of his professional career running Spark Networks. The result is a lackluster stock price, junky Christian dating site and stale & forgotten JDate. Spark should be as large as Match.com by now. Instead, the general clusterf&*k with...
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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