Comcast & HurryDate serve up video personals
On Valentine’s Day, Comcast Corp. is launching a new video-on-demand service called Dating on Demand. Digital-cable subscribers who are seeking dates will be able to download videos of singles and upload their own videos. The free service is rolling out today in...Quote of the day
Lorna Borenstein, vice president and general manager of Yahoo Personals, talking about Yahoo! Personals Premier: We realized that with more people looking for a longer-term commitment, that’s one of the areas our service had to get to and we had to do it...Match 50k/subs daily
Match is supposedly reporting 50,000 new registrations daily.Managing stale profiles
A flurry of emails this morning. The one from LavaLife caught my eye. It’s the usual “free credits to contact people” pitch, but down at the bottom is what caught my eye. LavaLife is giving people no longer interested in keeping their memberships an...Online Dating for Carpoolers
Not exactly online dating but what a great idea. Reminds me of the European company who ties a 10-digit number to an email account and provides bumper stickers, so you can send an SMS to the hottie in the car in front of you while stuck in traffic. They also created a...$13 billion for love
From About.com: Consumers are expected to spend $97.27 on Valentine’s Day, down slightly from $99.24 last year. However, 61.8 percent of consumers plan to celebrate the holiday, up from 59.8 percent one year ago. In all, 2005 Valentine’s Day spending is...Friday emails
I received the following two emails, only seconds apart this morning. One is unsolicited spam, the other is opt-in. Can you guess which is which? “Find a Christian Valentine’s” – WhereChristiansMeet “AFF News: Singles, couples wanted for...ODI Sponsorship, consulting and email list
Sponsorship: Did you know Online Dating Insider is read by top entrepreneurs, executives, funders and followers in the online dating industry? We’re part of Corante, a network of thought leaders and industry insiders covering the social networking, dating and...Spark Networks employment contracts
Contracts Blog has a posting from August 12, 2004 which contains links to sample employment contracts for several Spark Networks executives. Historical context for those interested in these things.
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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