by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Reading through Greg Blatt’s comments about Match.com’s financials. Some great stuff here. We’ve now cracked the 3 million subscriber mark for the first time. That’s more than double what it was just 4 years ago. … I think it’s...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
SNAP Interactive, makers of Are You Interested, released financial results for the first quarter of 2013. Top line: Numbers down across the board. Revenue down 40% from same time last year, in part due to reduced ad spend. Bookings, which I don’t see on a lot of...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Match continue to heading towards the magic number of a billion dollars a year in revenue. Nice to see Meetic post a gain and look at the number of paid subs in their Developing market, up 45%. Revenue up 8% to $188.9M from $174.3M. Core, Meetic and Developing revenue...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Lot’s of discussion about Bitcoin lately. WordPress.com and several other companies accept the digital currency, and now OkCupid accepts BitCoins as well. I’ve been mining Bitcoins on my laptop for a few weeks. At this rate, I’ll have $.000002 cents...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Sites & Startups, Profiles & Matching, Social: Dating & Networking
Social dating and discovery in its current format is based on a wobbly foundation of media spin, investors (both gullible and heroic) and the reality that singles are tired of the decade-old dating site model. The dating industry needed a swift kick in the pants, and...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Markets, Dating Research, Matchmaking, Mobile Dating, Offline Dating, Profiles & Matching
And so another Valentine’s Day has come to pass. This year I did around 35 media interviews, actually a pretty light load this year. The sheer number of “relationship experts” who asked about guest-posting was unbelievable, probably around 50 people....