New American Singles
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...November 1, 2005IAC Reports Q3 Results
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...Matchmaking Institute Certification Training
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...Podcast Singles Network
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...Jim Houran on compatibility testing
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,...GoogleBase for dating
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...Lavalife call, Spark IPO, dating industry legal woes
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....Meetic IPO update
Initial public offering was oversubscribed more than 12 times by institutional investors. Story at Reuters chart from Yahoo Finance. [tags: meetic]Dating company stock charts
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]
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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