2006 Dating Industry Study Available
This new home for this page is here. John LaRosa of Marketdata publishes the only in-depth study of “The U.S. Dating Services Market.” His newest addition, dated April 2006, is now available. I’ve sold a lot of the last version to everyone from...People Recommendation Systems
I need to respond to an Italian journalist who asked about recommendation engines and how they related to social networking and dating. What better place to ponder on a rainy Saturday morning? Pandora and Last.fm are music recommendation sites I’ve been talking...Defining Online Dating Success
Mark Brooks took a stab at measuring the success of online dating. I’ve talked about this before. He asked for comments so here they are: The number is far north of 20 million online daters unless he is limiting his exercise to the US. Include percentages as...Alexa Traffic Measurement Demystified
Found this about Alexa while looking at different VOIP clients today: Alexa does not calculate the actual number of users visiting Web sites… what we do instead is release raw data about how many people in a sample population (Alexa Toolbar users, among others)...Customer Survey at Match
Today I was greeted by a survey page at Match.com. It had one question. “How likely is it that you would recommend Match.com to a friend?” In Firefox on the Mac, the page is cut off. Perhaps there were more questions? Of all the questions you would think...
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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