by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
The earnings call transcript for IAC/Match is extremely interesting, lots of datapoints of interest to dating industry insiders. Key takeaways below and full transcript at Seeking Alpha. Developing, which is everything but Core and Meetic, bottomed out in Q4, but...
by David Evans | Social: Dating & Networking
Brian Bowman at LikeIt has a great post on TechCrunch, Facebook Is Primed To Disrupt Online Dating. Brian made some solid points and there are a few things I disagree with, so let’s dive in, shall we? Brian sets the tone of the article right up front....
by David Evans | Dating Safety
One of the statements that stood out during the Online Dating Summit CEO panel was that online dating sites facilitate introductions. We are so used to dating sites boasting about their matching systems, yet dating sites are simply putting likely candidates in front...
by David Evans | Dating Research
Who knows when OkTrends will post again (it’s been almost two years). In the meantime, I’d love to see dating sites do yearly reviews like this one from email service provider Mailchimp. I saw a lot of fascinating charts and graphs about dating site user...
by David Evans | Dating Conferences & Events, Dating Industry Finance, Dating Markets, Dating Research, Dating Safety, Dating Site Features, Mobile Dating, Online Dating Industry, Online Dating Innovation, Social: Dating & Networking, Uncategorized
It was great to see everyone at Online Dating Summit in Miami! Met a lot of readers from EU and AU as well as key players at top US dating sites. Many people were fried after Affiliate Summit in Vegas. My keynote presentation is at http://slidesha.re/WUcGU5 Sign up...
by David Evans | Audio & Video, Profiles & Matching
Facebook’s Graph Search dating examples isn’t the only new dating game in town. Siri lags far behind in terms of quality of results, but it’s still fun to ask her to find you someone. What dating site is going to strike a deal with Apple to power...
by David Evans | Marketing
Nice to see CoffeeMeetsBagel doing a partnership with Starbucks. Trading in credits (Beans) for a Starbucks card makes perfect sense given the name of the company and the fact that so many dates start at a coffee shop. More and more group, location-based and real-time...
by David Evans | Profiles & Matching
It looks like some people are already getting live access to Facebook’s Graph Search. Of course there is a Tumblblog called Actual Facebook Graph Searches. Today’s entry was “Single women who live nearby and who are interested in men and like Getting...
by David Evans | Audio & Video, Dating Conferences & Events
In case you didn’t make it to iDate, here’s the conference organizer mud-wrestling some women. Nope, I’m not going to say anything, nothing at all. http://youtu.be/LGADX6UdUjQ
by David Evans | Marketing
Fantastic weekend in Miami at the Online Dating Summit. Thanks to Walter and Andreas for putting together a solid weekend of panels and networking. Several 3am nights, a huge stack of business cards and I’m back home where it’s 8 degrees out. Keeping that...