by David Evans | Dating Safety, Dating Site Technology, Marketing, Online Dating Industry, Profiles & Matching
In 2008, IntroAnalytics launched their recommendation system for dating sites. As I expected, because every matching system vendor does this, they broadened their focus into anti-scam and e-commerce. Why? In part because getting dating sites to license a third-party...
by David Evans | Dating Safety, Dating Site Features
How About We For Couples really wants me to try it out, lots of emails from them lately. Interesting to see how many companies are trying to keep the revenue flowing by addressing the (perceived) needs of couples. Zoosk has its own Couples area where you can brag...
by David Evans | Dating Safety, Marketing, Profiles & Matching, Social: Dating & Networking
The founder and chairman of eHarmony, Dr. Neil Clark Warren, is returning to the job of CEO! Its been years since we were graced with Dr. Warren’s presence on late-night tv, lets see what he can accomplish after ousting Jeremy Verba, the former Zynga exec who...
by David Evans | Dating Safety, Legal
This is the kind of story I hate writing. Skout, longtime friends of Online Dating Insider and the dating industry, has had three occurrences of rape tied to the services in the last few weeks. In After Rapes Involving Children, Skout, a Flirting App, Faces...
by David Evans | Dating Safety, Marketing, Mobile Dating
I love love love HowAboutWe’s Flash Contest from March (lag, I know!). No question, the HowAboutWe marketing department runs circles around the rest of the online dating industry and their goofy 20-something’s blog is pretty awesome (says the older guy who...
by David Evans | Dating Safety, Dating Site Technology
Device reputation firm iovation did some research and found that the online dating fraud rate originating from Europe grew 357% between Q1 2011 and Q1 2012. The exact breakdown was: Q1 2011 = .22 Q2 2011 = .50 Q3 2011 = .66 Q4 2011 = .73 Q1 2012 = 1.02 This is great...