by David Evans | Dating Research, Mobile Dating, White Label Dating
I’m psyched about my 1.5 million Facebook shares, which is going to make me filthy rich. I’m planning on dumping them this afternoon, moving to the tropics and becoming a banana farmer. I kid, I kid, but can you imagine how the new crop of...
by David Evans | Dating Research, Marketing, Mobile Dating
Big news, social discovery/dating site Badoo is on track to hit 150 million users today. Corporate communications at Badoo told me that they attribute the 150,000 daily new users in part to mobile and US growth, specifically. Thirty-five million active users per month...
by David Evans | Dating Research
Facebook’s data team is going all OkCupid on us in terms of releasing relationship data about their users. OkCupid does a great job measuring a few million singles, but Facebook super-sizes the sample size up to 850 million people. The data geeks at FB have released...
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 Markets, Dating Research, Marketing, Online Dating Industry, Online Dating Innovation, Profiles & Matching
Today’s New York Times has an article about The Dubious Science of Online Dating. While I was reading it, Markus Frind, founder of Plentyoffish (recently rebranded as POF), sent me ELI J. FINKEL AND BENJAMIN R. KARNEY are wrong at least when it comes to POF....
by David Evans | Dating Research, Interviews, Social: Dating & Networking
What a great week. New clients, the CNBC show Love At First Byte was a big hit last night and today we have a great interview with Catherine and Geoff Cook of MyYearbook. In today’s episode with MyYearbook we talk about social discovery, the need for social networking...