Meetic Lycos deal
Way back in May, Meetic became premium dating partner of LYCOS Gütersloh/ Paris. They had 4 million members, the deal with Lycos is what got them to the nine million member mark I mentioned earlier. According to comScore, Meetic has 2.2 million visitors. I...Meetic prepares for 2005 EU IPO
Get out your Euro calculator. Meetic, with the support of its new shareholder AGF Allianz, is busy strengthening its leadership before its listing on the stock market, planned for 2005. The French dating site launched in early 2002 by Marc Simoncini will open up to 4...MySpace is the new Friendster
The only people I heard talking about Myspace before last week were dating industry executives busy pontificating that social networking will experience a popularity explosion as online dating has, only bigger. How omnipotent of them. Things are certainly looking good...Myspace a good investment?
Bambi Francisco, CBS.MarketWatch.com: Venture capitalists embraced Friendster and lavished it with a $53 million market valuation, when Friendster had negligible revenue but a lot of promise. Now there’s MySpace, a very similar site to Friendster in that MySpace...Online Dating spending up 6.4%
U.S. consumers spent $853 million on online content in the first half of 2004, led by growth in entertainment content — a 14 percent increase in spending over the same period last year, according to the Paid Content U.S. Market Spending Report, conducted by...
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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