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Comcast & HurryDate serve up video personals

On Valentine’s Day, Comcast Corp. is launching a new video-on-demand service called Dating on Demand. Digital-cable subscribers who are seeking dates will be able to download videos of singles and upload their own videos. The free service is rolling out today in...

Billboard advertising

Adrants has a link to a story about an Australian Chinese woman who has spent $5,000 to buy a billboard in Randwick for a month advertising for a husband. She is quite nonchalant about the whole thing, “I’m surprised a lot of people think this is special...

Seniors market flat

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...

Match offline event revenue up 200%

Online dating services are taking their customers back to the bars. Chris Terrill, Match.com’s vice president for off-line initiatives at Match, won’t give dollar figures, but says his division’s revenues have more than doubled since last year, when...