by David Evans | Dating Site Features, Offline Dating, Online Dating Innovation, Profiles & Matching
Match.com is launching a game service for singles. To play you are required to hack into a government mainframe with a secret password, and the game unfolds like this: Joshua: Shall we play a game? David Lightman: Oh! David Lightman: Love to. How about Global...
by David Evans | Dating Markets, Offline Dating, Online Dating Industry, Profiles & Matching, Social: Dating & Networking
This week Match.com’s PR department reached out to set up a time to talk about an important upcoming announcement. Then today the Match blog, Up To Date, features a post, Stay Tuned for an Exciting Announcement from Match.com. Match.com will be making a BIG...
by David Evans | Dating Site Technology, Profiles & Matching
While we wait for society and dating sites to figure out how to do video profiles and videochat, the dating industry has had one option when it comes to getting past static profiles. OmniDate, which many readers will remember from iDates past, was the only pure-play...
by David Evans | Profiles & Matching
Anyone who’s been on a dating site has seen them. She’s a beautiful girl with poor grammar skills. She wants to talk via her Yahoo email account and within a few emails she’s often asking for money to come visit you. Thats a clear indication of a...
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 Markets, Dating Research, Marketing, Online Dating Industry, Online Dating Innovation, Profiles & Matching
Today’s New York Times has an article about The Dubious Science of Online Dating. While I was reading it, Markus Frind, founder of Plentyoffish (recently rebranded as POF), sent me ELI J. FINKEL AND BENJAMIN R. KARNEY are wrong at least when it comes to POF....