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 Industry Finance, Mobile Dating
Several years ago I met Christian and (at the time) Redg at Skout, think it was iDate. After talking to them a while I wanted to help them out with fundraising, so I went to the usual suspects and sat in on some investor meetings on Skout’s behalf. Nobody was...
by David Evans | Mobile Dating
Mobile applications that track and make your current location public have proliferated in recent years. Almost all of these efforts have been tied into public Foursquare, and now Facebook, checkins. My favorite has always been Assisted Serendipity, which I’ve...
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 Industry Finance, Dating Research, Mobile Dating
Tonight on CNBC at 9PM EST. Love at First Byte. NBC News and Today Show Correspondent Amy Robach reveals how online daters are using cutting-edge technology in search of love and how digital entrepreneurs are getting rich helping them do it. You’ll meet scientists,...
by David Evans | Dating Markets, Dating Research, Dating Sites & Startups, Marketing, Mobile Dating, Profiles & Matching
After a bummer of a sale to FriendFinder Networks, which has proven adept at killing off perfectly good acquisitions, Nerve.com has launched a new dating site. Many people, myself included, consider Nerve/SpringStreet to have been the best “first wave”...