by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Customer acquisition and retention experts at vindicia have been tracking global activity for its many online dating clients. They are seeing first-hand how Facebook in particular, is contributing to the exponential growth of online dating. Vindicia’s online dating...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Markets, Dating Research, Dating Site Features, Dating Sites & Startups, Mobile Dating, Profiles & Matching
Marketdata Enterprises has updated their US Dating Industry Study, bringing it up to date for 2012. We’ve arranged for Online Dating Insider readers to be able to order the report for $1,325, a 30% discount on the $1,895 list price. The same discount applies to...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Research, Mobile Dating
Tonight on CNBC at 9PM EST. Love at First Byte. NBC News and Today Show Correspondent Amy Robach reveals how online daters are using cutting-edge technology in search of love and how digital entrepreneurs are getting rich helping them do it. You’ll meet scientists,...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Site Features, Dating Sites & Startups
Here’s a cautionary tale for all you online dating startups trying to out-Thread Thread. Part history lesson, part obituary, this one’s for the 10+ startups working in the social dating space. In recent years, the dating industry has focused first on...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Here’s the update on Badoo from LeWeb ’11 today, via Tech Crunch. Badoo is a curious success story, if only for how little recognition or even awareness it has for its success. Badoo works like a social network based on location – you can find other users...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Sites & Startups
I for one am not buying the hype surrounding Badoo. I hear too many people talking about systems in place for creating fake profiles, the rampant address book mining, the hundreds of women I see in Boston with Spanish-language profiles, and the scores of messages...