All We Want To Do Is Date Ourselves
Lately I’ve been spending a lot of time speaking with experts about matching algorithms. 16PF5, behavioral matching, opposites attract, energetic compatibility, etc. There are hundreds of algorithms being used by the dating industry and we still don’t have...Next Online Dating Summit In Curacao
Where did March go? Feels like I was just in Miami for the Online Dating Summit. It’s been a busy month or so working with a great group of new clients to build out several new dating sites. Also enjoying the great spring snowboarding we’ve had. Moving...BBC Radio Investigates Cupid PLC
Over the weekend the BBC’s Adrian Goldberg aired an investigative piece centered on allegations that Cupid PLC had among other things made use of fake profiles and communications to entice members to sign up. Cupid LLC’s official response was that there...Dating Sites Do The Harlem Shake
The Internet meme of the moment is the Harlem Shake. Match was the first dating site I’ve seen jump on the opportunity to dance spastically to the song and post a video. A solid effort, I challenged the dating industry to a Shake-off on Twitter and POF was the...Man Accused of Raping Woman He Met On Christian Mingle
Match isn’t the only dating site in the news for members behaving badly. Now it’s Spark Networks, owners of ChristianMingle. A man using the nickname “Rarity” (and sometimes Rylan Butterwood) was arrested on two counts of sexual assault and...Are Real Names On Dating Sites A Good Idea?
Has anyone seen a dating site that uses people’s real names? Lots of sites use Facebook data and then let people create an alias to hide their FB name – Thread.com was the first to do this, but I’ve never seen a dating site where my profile name was...Social Discovery Dating Benefits Companies, Not Singles
Social dating and discovery in its current format is based on a wobbly foundation of media spin, investors (both gullible and heroic) and the reality that singles are tired of the decade-old dating site model. The dating industry needed a swift kick in the pants, and...Inside OKCupid: The Math Of Online Dating
Here’s How OkCupid Uses Math to Find Your...Post-Valentine’s Day Wrap-Up
And so another Valentine’s Day has come to pass. This year I did around 35 media interviews, actually a pretty light load this year. The sheer number of “relationship experts” who asked about guest-posting was unbelievable, probably around 50 people....
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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