by David Evans | Dating Research, Dating Site Technology, Dating Sites & Startups, Profiles & Matching
PCWorld, of all publications, does a great job Analyzing the Algorithms of Attraction, asking the question, Just how do eHarmony, Plenty of Fish, True.com and PerfectMatch.com work under the hood? I wish reporters would talk to different dating sites. Getting tired of...
by David Evans | Dating Research, Marketing
Online Dating and Advertising Prove To Be A Good Match. 4Chan.org: 300m page views/mo; about $6k in revenue. @hendrylee links to Recession Hits Paid Sites Hard. Ad Network Reports 40% Drop in Dating CPMs. Some Still Saw Increase in Revenue I was playing around with...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
Compete says DownToEarth, Match.com’s free dating site, is up to 188,000 members. DTE tells me they are not aggressively advertising the site, which is even more impressive. Observations: At least 50% of the women don’t have photos. The majority of women...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
It’s been an amazing week connecting with all the dating sites on Twitter. @Andrew_Chen has a bit about How to find girls on Twitter. Andrew says looks for keywords that women use in tweets, since Twitter doesn’t capture any personal information. I wrote...
by David Evans | Online Dating Industry
WhiteLabelDating has announced that Rick Jones has been named marketing director and appointed as a board member. Jones has 11 years online marketing experience and joins WLD from Greenbee.com, John Lewis’ services arm. As head of marketing he was responsible...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
As a Satanist, I’m not a big fan of Christian dating sites. I am, however, a big fan of Sam Moorcroft, founder of Christian Cafe. His business has been humming along for a decade, is super-profitable and the guy tends to email from exotic locals, so he’s...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
Last month I was on the Man Panel in Boston with OKCupid CEO Sam Yagan. The event was written up in the Boston Herald today and I wanted to recognize the great job that Laura Warrell has done with the event. The Boston Globe calls the Man Panel “[Straight out...
by David Evans | Marketing
I have to remind myself to look at dating site home pages when I’m not logged in. Match has done a redesign and the SEO team has made the page a giant mess, but at least we see some nice dentistry, and what’s that? Match now accepts Paypal. Question:...
by David Evans | Marketing
I received these Valentine’s Day emails from Match and Yahoo Personals. One made me feel all warm, fuzzy and optimistic and the other, not so much. Which would you rather find in your inbox?
by David Evans | Marketing
Looks like Facebook is sending profile data to Singlesnet, see the M40 at the end of the url? Thats me, Male, 40. Clarification from Singlesnet would be good, I could be off-base on this. From now on, I’m going to throw an “Is” in front of all post...