OkCupid: Building the Data-Driven Brand
OKCupid CEO Sam Yagan gave a presentation at the Digiday Data Marketing Summit. This is a fantastic slide deck, required reading for the entire dating industry. Complete with all sorts of juicy stats on member demographics, messaging trends and even some dating tips....Interview With MeetMoi CEO Alex Harrington
Enjoy this podcast I did with Alex Harrington, CEO of mobile dating pioneer Meetmoi.Facebook Find Friends Nearby Will Either Destroy Or Energize Mobile Dating
People always say that Facebook is for keeping in touch with people you already know, and MeetMe, Badoo and other social services are for discovering new people. Well that’s about to change, big time. The new Facebook Friend Finder feature lets people find and...Did Badoo Acquire Stepout?
Either Badoo acquired Stepout, or Stepout took some of the $2.4M they raised in January and cloned Badoo’s business model and the display bar at the top of the page. The pay-for-points freemium access model is a bit different, with two options, chat with...Online Dating Industry News 6-22-12
Gay-spotting mobile app Grindr gets around 1 million monthly visitors. Sex offenders in Louisiana must list their status on Facebook, other social media. What’s next, limiting what they can Like on Facebook? Where will the scarlet letters be featured on their...Facebook Acquires Israeli Facial Recognition Company
Facebook has acquired Face.com, the company that has been providing you with the ability to automatically tag people in photos on Facebook for the last two years. Back in January, Face.com launched KLIK, A Real-Time, Facial Recognition Camera App For iPhone. Connect...Dating Industry News 6-18-12
This is one way to see how TheCompleteMe is growing. Send in the clones: TheDatable Launches To Help You Discover The Singles In Your Social Graph. Another Likebright/TheCompleteMe social dating app. I’ve been using them all for a while now, current version of...The Hardest Dating Site Question Ever
Now that I’m in the process of evolving into a Vermonster, I’m changing up my profiles on various dating sites. This question on OkCupid has been in my emails from them and featured in the sidebar for weeks now. Questions about drugs and and weird...Online Dating Industry News 6-15-12
While browsing AngelList, I came across Pinstant Karma which calls itself “A pitch-perfect convergence of match.com and Pinterest that will energize the online dating segment.” With stunning visual pin boards singles can easily ‘like’ and...
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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