Peter Vogel On Virtual Economoies and Social Advertising
I met Peter Vogel at iDate. Peter currently serves as senior director of marketing and industry scout for Memolink. He’s written a few articles about virtual economies and social advertising I found interesting. Facebook’s virtual economy may be making up...Converting Inactive Members With Personalized Email
You often hear marketers talking about the test-iterate cycle dating sites go through with home pages, ads, copy and signup process. During iDate I heard a panelist talking about problems with making sure that general member communications and affiliate email...Image Recognition Co. Milabra Launches, Has $1.4 Million in Financing
Milabra CEO Sam Cox explains how Milabra image recognition works in this Beet.TV story. Watch the video for an in-depth description of Milabra image management services. Congrats to Milabra on their recent $1.4 million financing round.Huge Opportunities Exist in The Online Dating Space
Marc Procelli has a must-read post about the current state of online dating advertising. Marc has come up with some ideas about where he thinks the online dating market is going in 2009 by looking at various verticals. Given that the online distribution has changed at...Dating Ad Networks Undergoes Massive Upgrade
Dating Ad Network (Disclaimer: client and advertiser) has undergone a massive upgrade. Members now can have unlimited number of banners per account; the whole network is now sub-divided into 20 niche dating categories; new banner formats added; etc. Blog post...UK Social Networks Overtake Adult Websites
Hitwise, how we love your unique take on internet trends. Supposedly, as of last October, social networks traffic has overtaken adult websites in the UK. The same happened in the US in mid-2007. Given the amount of red-hot co-ed action on WooMe and other video...Jambool Launches Payments Widget for Facebook Applications
Facebook has been talking about implementing a micropayments system for more than a year, only to drop the initiative in recent weeks. to fill the gap, In an aggressive move, Jambool is developing its own payments platform and virtual economy tools for social network...AOL To Sell Bebo?
AOL clearly overpaid for social networking site Bebo last year and is paying for it’s miscalculation dearly. The original sale price was $850 million. Current asking price is said to be around $200 million. What was AOL thinking? This TechCrunch story goes into...Online Dating Insider Links for February 3, 2009
Congratulations to ODI advertiser Milabra for being recently featured on TechCrunch. PlentyofFish wants to buy dating sites, which is old news but you wouldn’t know it from the 100+ comments on Markus’ blog. Dr. Helen Fisher’s 2020 appearance. There...
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