by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
Living single in a big city like Boston is great. There is never any shortage of people to go out with who are at least close to the type of person you want to date. From bible-thumper hotties to lesbo riott girlz, a decent sized city has got them all. Now that...
by David Evans | Dating Research
Facebook’s data team is going all OkCupid on us in terms of releasing relationship data about their users. OkCupid does a great job measuring a few million singles, but Facebook super-sizes the sample size up to 850 million people. The data geeks at FB have released...
by David Evans | Marketing
Its amazing how many dating sites don’t take the time to write a blog or post up social media content. For all the grief I give HowAboutWe on the premise of their business model, their blog kicks the cr@p out of just about every other dating site blog (I...
by David Evans | Dating Markets, Dating Sites & Startups
Online dating industry veterans continue to attack JDate’s market share. This time it’s Avalanche LLC, which runs Date.com, Matchmaker and a number of other sites. According to CEO Meir Strahlberg: The outlook for Jewish online dating was bleak. While...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Customer acquisition and retention experts at vindicia have been tracking global activity for its many online dating clients. They are seeing first-hand how Facebook in particular, is contributing to the exponential growth of online dating. Vindicia’s online dating...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
And we’re back. Well that was a nice blog break, I’ve been hanging out in Vermont and am fully recharged and ready to go. Next week I’m moving into to a cool little wooden home in the woods and I can’t wait. After living in New York City and...
by David Evans | Dating Conferences & Events, Marketing
For those of you who were unable to attend eAmore last night, here’s another dating industry event for you. The main conference days (3 & 4 March) are fully orientated to bringing you more traffic. The goal is to create a dynamic business atmosphere in which...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Markets, Dating Research, Dating Site Features, Dating Sites & Startups, Mobile Dating, Profiles & Matching
Marketdata Enterprises has updated their US Dating Industry Study, bringing it up to date for 2012. We’ve arranged for Online Dating Insider readers to be able to order the report for $1,325, a 30% discount on the $1,895 list price. The same discount applies to...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
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by David Evans | Dating Markets, Dating Research, Marketing, Online Dating Industry, Online Dating Innovation, Profiles & Matching
Today’s New York Times has an article about The Dubious Science of Online Dating. While I was reading it, Markus Frind, founder of Plentyoffish (recently rebranded as POF), sent me ELI J. FINKEL AND BENJAMIN R. KARNEY are wrong at least when it comes to POF....