From Salacious Advertising to The Algorithm War
In case you missed it, the battleground for online dating dominance shifted over the weekend. First, we learned that True.com is most likely delinquent on its advertising payments. As a result True’s ads are increasingly harder to find in the usual places like...Dating Sites Embrace Super Crunching
Happy National Singles Week. Did you know that Operation Match, the first example computer matchmaking, took place in 1965? Behold, a fascinating article in the The New York Times by Ian Ayres about Super Crunchers, which focuses on the matching systems that power...Christian Mingle On Myspace
After months of cleavage-spotting and erotic videochat ads, this Christian Mingle ad on Myspace was a bit of a letdown. I can’t believe I just said that! I took a bunch of OKCupid tests over the weekend. That was more fun than I expected, although I was taken...The Ultimate Photo cropping tool
I was talking with someone recently about how important good personal ad photos are. This tool looks like it could do wonders for automagically resizing or cropping people out of the middle of a photo.Match Photo Censorship
Check out the error message I caught on Match. “This persons picture is too sexy to display.” I’ve never seen this before.
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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