Top ad buyers for online personals sites
ZDNet reports the top 20 advertisers on online personals sites via Nielsen/NetRatings. Yahoo!, InteractiveCorp and MatchNet lead the pack with 83.3% of all ad impressions on personals sites. [tags: advertising]Yahoo Personals Security Hole
Back from Holidays in Vermont. Sore from snowboarding and about 5 lbs heavier from all the eggnog. Yahoo Personals has a security hole which was uncovered by Bennett Haselton. The problem appears to be minor. Basically, someone could grab a dater’s pet name or...Safer Online Dating
What is up with the Safer Online Dating Alliance (SODA)? According to an ODI reader, all that’s known is that it’s run from a P.O. Box in Austin, you have to provide a lot of info to be able to even contact the organization and there doesn’t seem to...Holiday Break
I’m off to Vermont for the Holidays and won’t be posting much over the next week. Family time and snowboarding at Stowe are in order to recharge the batteries. Like so many other blogs, we’re doing a server upgrade mid-week, expect a few hiccups...ODI Podcast #1 – ranking & rating dating sites
Today marks the inaugural Online Dating Insider podcast. I haven’t done my own podcast in many moons, usually I use Skype to talk to the interviewer, and they take the raw audio file and convert it to MP3 after an hour or so tweaking the quality. Consider this...Podcastsingles Network Show #5
Dan Bender posted the latest Dating Industry Insider podcast at the Singles Podcasting Network where I talk with host Rich Gosse “about the battle between traditional dating websites and social networking sites such as Myspace and Friendster. We get into new...Improbable iDate sessions
Hints and tips on how to identify fake profiles. What did you do before you got into the online dating industry? (Closed door session.) Why Christian dating sites shouldn’t share server space with p0rn sites. Why social networking is finally getting a business...iDate Speaker Schedule
I wanted to speak at iDate in Miami, but alas, it looks like I am an industry outsider this year. It seems I didn’t get in line early enough and they are overbooked for speakers. It would have been a good opportunity to talk about the industry from an, ahem,...PodDater adds RSS feeds to profiles
Jon on the PodDater blog sez: You will be able to conduct a search and subscribe to those search preferences. The results will be delivered to your iTunes application or an RSS reader. Video profiles downloaded overnight, ready for watching during your commute or...
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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