by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Dating Research
Bad boy Gary Kremen, original founder of Match.com, is slated to receive $65 million from Stephen Cohen, who has been arrested by Mexican authorities in Tijuana after being on the lam for four years after illegally taking over sex.com, a domain owned by Kremen. More...
by David Evans | Dating Site Features
American Singles is introducing several enhancements to the site to bring it closer to par with the rest of the tier one players in the online dating industry. American Singles is a strange beast. Incredibly high CPA, exposure through maddening spyware and toolbar...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Snapshot of details related to Match.com. Personals revenue up 33% (49.7M to 66M) Operating income up 472% (2.8M to 15.8) Paid subscribers up 19% (989.8M to 1.178M) International subscribers grew by 13% Match is squeezing more money out of each subscriber and not by...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
The Matchmaking Institute in New York City is offering their next certification series. They also run Continuing Education Series of Tele-classes beginning in January. Matchmaking demands the innate ability to gauge the compatibility between people. While I find it...
by David Evans | Marketing
Rich Gosse and Dan Bender have started a website called Podcast Singles Network. Rich interviewed me last week as part of the industry insiders track, we talked about the Meetic IPO, Chemistry.com and the upcoming Internet Dating Confercence. The site is under...
by David Evans | Dating Research
Dr. James Houran, the brains behind the True.com Compatability Test, shares his thoughts on the infancy of compatibility testing, Rasch scaling, classical test theory and how new technologies and research are driving applied psychology. [tags: compatability,...
by David Evans | Dating Site Technology, Online Dating Innovation
The buzz over GoogleBase continues. People Profiles are one of the drop-down category options found in the service when it was publicly available for a brief time this week. Using the bulk upload function (think of GoogleBase as a giant public database), a free dating...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Details are thin, but it sounds like someone is trying to sue online dating companies that ignore 3-day cancellation notices. Over the summer a handful of lawyers contacted me to snap up copies of the Online Dating Industry Report. All within a two week period....
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Initial public offering was oversubscribed more than 12 times by institutional investors. Story at Reuters chart from Yahoo Finance. [tags: meetic]
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Happy birthday to me. Here are a few stock charts from various public dating company (via Yahoo Finance). I’ll link them to individual research pages next week and add them to the sidebar. [tags: finance]