by David Evans | Dating Research, Dating Sites & Startups, Mobile Dating
Shayan at Zoosk turned me onto this article – Why Dating Sites Should Care About Virtual Goods. Eharmony spends $93.3 million in advertising in 9 months, almost twice as much as Match.com. Eharmony changes its community guidelines and forgot to mention it....
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Research
Eric Klaassen of Datingfacts, a dating blog in the Neterhlands, has written about the size of the EU dating market. I’ve translated the following from his original post, not perfect but you get the idea. Number of users is growing fast in Europe Volgens Jupiter...
by David Evans | Dating Research
This is an old link but as a fan of data visualization tools I wanted to share. FlowingDating says: Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar collaborated again in their featured piece at New York Museum of Modern Art’s Design of the Elastic Mind exhibit. Similar in flavor...
by David Evans | Dating Research, Mobile Dating
According to TechCrunch, Juniper Research has just released a new report that claims the value of the mobile dating and chatroom market will grow to nearly $1.4 billion by 2013. That number is generous to a fault but growth is unavoidable, as mobile dating platforms,...
by David Evans | Dating Research, Dating Sites & Startups
Andrew Chen has a solid article on profitable freemium startups about user acquisition, retention, lifetime value and much more. Added bonus, Facebook viral marketing: When and why do apps “jump the shark? Dating sites that are successful live and die by these types...
by David Evans | Dating Research
I enjoyed reading Ron Callari’s 7 Predictions for Search Engine Marketing in 2009. These predictions absolutely apply to the online dating industry. Especially Prediction #3 – Metrics will shift from traffic to conversions.