by David Evans | Online Dating Industry
Todays dating industry news update is over at Scoop.it. I’ve tried a number of aggregation and curation services and Scoop.it looks like a good choice. The last one I did at Paper.li didn’t have a preview, so it would publish and I wouldn’t know what...
by David Evans | Online Dating Industry
Years ago, eHarmony had a relationship with the ultra-Christian organization Focus on The Family. After the relationship was uncovered and fairly savaged in the press, eHarmony decided it drop the Christian dating angle and went more mainstream. Fast forward a few...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Marketing, Online Dating Industry
Bravo Partners With OkCupid—It’s a Match: To promote its new show “Most Eligible Dallas”, which follows a group of attractive singles (including a couple NFL players) as they navigate the Texas dating scene, Bravo teamed up with online dating site OkCupid to...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Site Features, Mobile Dating, Online Dating Industry
eHarmony Premier launches, looks like they are pushing for one-time payment of $503.40. eHarmony has a lot of membership options these days. eHarmony also has a new CEO. Former Zynga general manager (Farmville) Jeremy Verba has jumped ship to helm the expanding dating...
by David Evans | Dating Site Features, Online Dating Industry, Online Dating Innovation
Several months ago Match.com developed a HowAboutWe clone called DateSpark and rolled it out in select test markets. Looks like the testing went well, because this morning I was greeted with the following. One outcome is that HowAboutWe sues Match for a lot of money,...
by David Evans | Dating Conferences & Events, Dating Industry Finance, Dating Markets, Dating Site Features, Dating Site Technology, Dating Sites & Startups, Mobile Dating, Online Dating Industry, Online Dating Innovation, Profiles & Matching, Social: Dating & Networking, White Label Dating
A great time was had by all at the eAmore Dating Industry Summit in New York. 150 people got together in Brooklyn to listen to dating industry executives, startups, financiers and vendors. Overall, I was pretty pleased with the event. The main gripe was that the...