by David Evans | Dating Markets, Dating Research
In August, more than 16 percent of those active on the top five dating sites, including Yahoo Personals and Match.com, were 55 and over, and more than 5 percent were 65 and over, according to Nielsen/NetRatings Inc. That’s up from 15 percent in the 55-plus...
by David Evans | Dating Research, Dating Sites & Startups
I spent some of the $75 on music in iTunes. While listening to my purchases I decided to research Matchmaker a bit to shed some light on the events which led to their recent acquisition. 1996- Jon Boede — who wrote the original Matchmaker BBS software —...
by David Evans | Dating Research
I love Spring Street Networks, and that fact that they run the personals side of great sites like Nerve and Salon.com, not to mention our local Boston.com. Lavalife seems to be doing ok with the contact-for-credits model, but I have not seen a press release from...
by David Evans | Dating Research
July 2004 1) Yahoo with 7.1 million unique visitors. 2) Matchnet, which owns American Singles and Jdate.com, stood at No. 2, with 6.7 million visitors 3) Match.com had 5 million. 4) Monster’s Tickle Personals had 4.6 million. 5) Microsoft’s MSN Dating had...
by David Evans | Dating Research
MarketingSherpa’s Publisher Anne Holland just held an in-depoth teleconference with email deliverability expert George Bilbrey of Return Path. A good overview of how spam filters, ISPs and challenge-response are changing (for the good and the bad) how companies...
by David Evans | Dating Conferences & Events, Dating Research
Mercedes- Benz USA and Match.com have teamed up to take advantage of the unique relationship between people and their cars, using cars as the “vehicles” for potential relationships. In Miami. The “Wheels of Attraction” event added a new...