by David Evans | Mobile Dating
There is going to be a big announcement by a mobile dating company on Monday. Embargo’s, grrr. Facebook: Telecoms’ New Best Friend? Phone makers are coming out with Facebook phones. Where is my eHarmony-branded Blackberry and what about mobile dating apps from...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
No, you can’t double-date on ChristianCafe. Founder and CEO Sam Moorcroft sent out an announcement that the company had recently expanded, with twins! Mom and dad are doing fine and both babies are looking forward to coming home and meeting their *other* twin...
by David Evans | Marketing
Perez Hilton benefitted from a post-Oscars traffic bump of epic proportions, 14 million pageviews on Monday! This is the result of an incredibly strong brand with an enormous passionate audience, pure popularity. As Perez would say, major traffic, b*tches! Quantcast...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
The online dating busy season is over. We’ve recovered from iDate and the media has written all it ever will about the effect of the recession on online dating. I thought now would be a good time to introduce myself, explain what I do and the reason this blog...
by David Evans | Marketing
The recent annual meeting of the Interactive Advertising Bureau was a somber affair. For five years online was advertising’s growth business, but 2008 delivered a wake-up call: Online advertising isn’t immune to the recession, and it’s only just...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
Signed up for Omnidate today. Haven’t been on the service for a while and I wanted to see what’s changed since I went on a “date” there with co-founder Ravit Abelman last year. Compete says Omnidate has about 2,000 monthly visitors. any number...
by David Evans | Dating Research, Dating Sites & Startups, Mobile Dating
Shayan at Zoosk turned me onto this article – Why Dating Sites Should Care About Virtual Goods. Eharmony spends $93.3 million in advertising in 9 months, almost twice as much as Match.com. Eharmony changes its community guidelines and forgot to mention it....
by David Evans | Uncategorized
Page eight of the PhotoKast Guide to Building an iPhone App says “Develop for the Seven Deadly Sins”. Guess what #1 is, Lust, which they equate with dating. Page 28 talks about how the PhotoKast “I am hot” section for women is the most popular...
by David Evans | White Label Dating
White Label Dating is making a concerted effort to grow their business in the U.S. We’re offering every partner that sends a minimum of 1000 members per month to a site on our USA network between 1st March and 31st May 2009 a massive 100% revenue share for those...
by David Evans | Profiles & Matching, Social: Dating & Networking
Fred Wilson, who writes the excellent A VC blog, writes that Facebook has announced that they are opening up API access to user’s status updates. Specifically, your applications can now directly access all of a user’s status, links, and notes via new...