by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Research, Marketing
$81 million seems like a small number for such an enormous population until you look at the demographics of the country. 60% annual growth rates expected. Baihe.com, which claims to be China’s largest online dating site, received US$11 million in venture capital...
by David Evans | Dating Research, Marketing
Found this about Alexa while looking at different VOIP clients today: Alexa does not calculate the actual number of users visiting Web sites… what we do instead is release raw data about how many people in a sample population (Alexa Toolbar users, among others)...
by David Evans | Marketing
At the end of January, according to PubSub, this blog was ranked 11,723. I didn’t post most of the week of iDate, and my rank fell to a low of 94,000. Then, for some reason, it started climbing again. Perhaps it was because it went down sporadically for a few...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Research, Marketing
Much ado about Alexa rankings lately. It’s time to take a hard look at developing an industry standard for ranking dating sites. This is a first pass, hopefully it can be refined over time with feedback and turn out to be something helpful to the industry,...