X+1 Does Cross-Channel Marketing for Match.com
I’ve been doing a lot of podcasting about online identity recently. and x+1 came up during a recent conversation. Match.com is right on the home page as a client. I believe Match is using the X+1 Marketing Optimization platform. Supposedly good for conversion...MSN Spaces Now Largest Blogging Service Worldwide
ComScore World Metrix says nearly one in seven Internet users worldwide had visited MSN Spaces in April of 2006. Unique visitors to MSN Spaces has more than doubled in the past 12 months, from 41.65 million to 101 million. Amazing growth, just goes to show how much...China’s Dating Market Continues to Grow
$81 million seems like a small number for such an enormous population until you look at the demographics of the country. 60% annual growth rates expected. Baihe.com, which claims to be China’s largest online dating site, received US$11 million in venture capital...Webshots Launches AllYouCanUpload.com
Does the world net yet another fr*e image hosting service? Webshots thinks so. They have launched Allyoucanupload.com, where users can upload images for free. I’ve experimented with several image management solutions, ideally to keep images in blog posts out of...WorldFriends Networks Signs 200th Partnership
Things have been a bit crazy around here, what with the 100-year flood and 10 inches of rain. Reports of cows and cars floating down local rivers, where is my Arc? Worldfriends enables website operators to add a self-branded dating channel to their sites. WFN caters...Friendster Raises More Cash
Silicon Beat says Friendster has raised an additional $3.1 million. Look at the Alexa ranking (sigh, the only ranking I could find easily, I don’t trust it much either.) I am liking Google Trends, look at this comparison of search volume on Friendster and...New Blog Launch: Progress Bar
It has come to my attention that some of what I’ve been writing about here has fallen out of the scope of the online dating industry and social networking. Some of the posts are off-base, too technical (often the identity and open profile topics), or otherwise...Google Promotes Break-ups
According to Marketing VOX, Google Video has been updated. Still not up to par with YouTube but getting better. Google, which provided a special site for video-makers with many titles to upload, is promoting the new video service via a program that coincides with...Meetic Q1 2006 Financials
Quick facts: Consolidated turnover for Q1 2006 16 Mio Euro (+74%). 19.9 million profiles registered at the end of march. 3.2 million profiles active over 30 days. MEETIC announces that it has signed an agreement with a view to the acquisition of ParPerfeito, the...
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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