by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
The earnings call transcript for IAC/Match is extremely interesting, lots of datapoints of interest to dating industry insiders. Key takeaways below and full transcript at Seeking Alpha. Developing, which is everything but Core and Meetic, bottomed out in Q4, but...
by David Evans | Dating Conferences & Events, Dating Industry Finance, Dating Markets, Dating Research, Dating Safety, Dating Site Features, Mobile Dating, Online Dating Industry, Online Dating Innovation, Social: Dating & Networking, Uncategorized
It was great to see everyone at Online Dating Summit in Miami! Met a lot of readers from EU and AU as well as key players at top US dating sites. Many people were fried after Affiliate Summit in Vegas. My keynote presentation is at http://slidesha.re/WUcGU5 Sign up...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
LikeBright, the Seattle matchmaking startup, has been selected to join the Bing Fund, a Microsoft angel fund and incubator program sponsored by Bing. According to TNW: Why is Bing interested in the startup? Mostly due to its fusion of social data and search, something...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Sites & Startups
Dating sites are now investing in other dating sites. Taking build vs. buy to the next level. Frind and POF recently made their first investment, contributing funds to a seed round for theComplete.me (now LikeIt). TechCrunch describes the Facebook app as a...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Markets, Mobile Dating, White Label Dating
Happy 2013 everyone. I took a few weeks off from posting over the holidays, back to a more normal schedule. The dating industry busy season is once again upon us: The media frenzy has begun and the dating industry is preparing for iDate and Online Dating Summit, where...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
That’s One Way To Do It: Every once in a while a single person gets tired of online dating and decides to go big and buy a billboard. This one is somewhere in San Diego. IAC Says No Plan To Bid For Cupid: Surprised they even mentioned they weren’t...