Facebook Gifts: Pushing the Limits of Rationality
Facebook Gifts: Pushing the limits of rationality: Yesterday I spoke with Bill Snow at BuyMyAffection. Bill thought I was really upset with him, and we proceeded to hash out the details and talk in more detail how his service operates and the vale to dating sites and...Happy Valentine’s Day Dating Site Operators
Valentine’s Day is like Tax Day for accountants. All of our hard work: marketing, programming, partnerships, acquisitions and new services, are launched and bringing in thousands of new people every day. How many happy couples did your dating site create this...Sobering Valentine’s Day Statistics
Investors Business Daily has a great article chock-full of statistics about the health of the online dating industry. Last year, only 10% of Internet users visited at least one online dating site, down from 16% in 2005 and 21% in 2002, says the report by Jupiter...Localizing the Online Dating Experience
How can dating and social networking sites increase market share without breaking the bank? How about translating your site into another language? Enlaso, a leading provider of online dating and social networking translation and localization solutions, will present a...My Midnight 15 Minute Date
I received an email from 15minutedate.com. It’s a blind date, scheduled for Sunday night at 12 am. Who schedules a meeting then? All the site says is “Match ID 42â€?. Waiting for me to confirm. Why would I stay up until midnight to have a videochat with what...Eharmony Launches In Canada, Founds Love Lab
And here I thought eHarmony was going to launch in Europe first. Turns out Canada is the latest in Eharmony’s expansion plans. Check out eharmony.ca. I bet Markus is quaking in his boots. Eharmony recently launched eHarmonyLabs, a commercial research...Dating Industry $932M According to Jupiter Research
Nate Elliot at Jupiter Research has a new dating industry report out. Nate thinks online dating will be a $932 million dollar industry of 11 million singles by 2011. I need to dig up his predictions from 2003 and compare them to where we are today. What he...Diller’s World of Princess Telephones
Markus quotes IAC Barry Diller: On social networking: Match.com is our play in social networking…a pure social network site–not that they are of value–no one has yet proved it is the easiest advertising medium. Pure social network is an upgrade from the princess...Guess Who’s Advertising on Myspace?
Looks like Mate1 is following True and Match by buying up cheap Myspace ad inventory. I’m waiting for some intrepid single to make an end run around dating sites by buying ad space on Myspace and putting up his photo with a link to his Myspace page or personal...
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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