Get a date, tonight
I just got off the phone with Sam Yagan at OKCupid. Sam walked me through a demo of a new site they are launching soon. Without giving away the store, I will say that the new service brings singles together like no other dating site I’ve ever seen before. The...Match.com Down
For the last 24 hours Match.com has been mostly unreachable. I wonder how long it will take for someone to notice that most pages are throwing errors like this. Some error pages say “Even dating has it’s difficulties”, but at $20/month, the website...DatingDirect.com is looking for search marketers
I recently sat down with Aquent to discuss the similarities between job hunters and online daters. Turns out job hunters are as passionate, volatile and demanding as singles. Aquent acquired Pricejamieson earlier this year. Pricejamieson has published a DatingDirect...First Look: Speeddate.com
Tonight was a beautiful night in Boston so I went to a restaurant overlooking the city on the waterfront here in Charlestown and hung out with new neighborhood friends. I came home and didn’t remember that Speeddate.com was having it’s inaugural event...Market Efficiencies of Online Dating
A great Craiglslist dating post is currently making the rounds, written by A 25 year old woman in New York who is trying to find out how to land a rich husband. The response is bound for the all time classic CL posts category. Woman: I’m a beautiful...SinglesNet Ad on Facebook
Check out this SinglesNet ad on Facebook. Totally tricked me into thinking it was one of those “how to score with women” e-books. I’m all for experimenting with new types of advertising but this doesn’t sit right with me. Then again, they are...Online Dating Insider Consulting, Subscriptions and Sponsorship
Sponsorship: Online Dating Insider is read by top entrepreneurs, executives, funders and followers in the online dating and social networking industries. We’re part of Digicraft, a group of thought leaders and industry insiders covering the dating, social networking...Theoretical Dating Site Acquisition Roundup
Samat Mutra had written a five-part series on Web 3.0 & Gannett. Gannett (GCI) publishes 85 daily newspapers, nearly 1,000 non-daily publications and 23 television stations in the US. In the UK, Gannett publishes 17 daily newspapers and around 300 non-daily...Online Dating in 2012
I meditated this morning and them promptly smashed my head into a doorframe, which dislodged some thoughts about the future of online dating and discovery services I’ve had filed away somewhere behind the reptilian part of my brain that focuses on breathing, the...
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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