by David Evans | Marketing
Talked with Zoosk about their $6 million fundraising announcement. Conversation started off discussing the announcement by Hitwise that they have begun tracking Zoosk across social networks, not just Zoosk.com, which is only roughly 5% of their aggregate traffic. Why...
by David Evans | Marketing
Hannah Schwartz of RSVP in Australia says membership is up 31% due to the recession. She didn’t mention any increase in marketing spend though. Recession-based growth hype or reality? The have a neat widget for sites and blogs over at Widgetbox.
by David Evans | Marketing
Louis Gray has a guest post by Micah Baldwin, Online Transparency Leads to New World of Group Dating, about how dating has been changed by social media. Connecting the dots between how transparency leads to group dating is proving difficult and I can’t say that...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups, Marketing, Profiles & Matching
AllFacebook says that there is a growing market for purchasing Facebook Profiles. This reminds me of people who contact me looking for dating profiles. Pre-populating a dating site with fake profiles is a really bad idea. Short of acquiring a dating site and merging...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Marketing
Match.com announced Q1 2009 financial results today. Don’t worry, It’s Ok To look. Match.com has had a busy past few months. In December, Match.com Experiences Strongest November in Seven Years. With the launch of the Daily5, which introduces five new...