Off to iDate
After a weekend of playoffs football ( go Pats!) and snowboarding in Vermont it is time to head to Miami for iDate. The conference should be ok, but I’m most excited about meeting with the people who are the pulse of the online dating industry. I know there will...iDate pre-event news
While I was abusing my body on the slopes slamming it into trees and falling on chunks of ice over the weekend I received a slew of press releases and party invites and lots of rumors surrounding iDate. Expect to hear about new partnerships, recent funding rounds(no,...Safe Date launches
I met Jeff and Tamara of SafeDate at SITRAS in December and we had an long conversation about identity verification and the safety of online dating. Disclaimer- They also gave me a nice SafeDate t-shirt. Safedate launched their website today. If you’re a dating...Imaginary girlfriends
Friday afternoon deserves a fun post, so here it is. This kind of stuff is big in Japan. Only a matter of time before it takes off here. An Imaginary Girlfriend is exactly that. This is a service provided by a real life girl where she will pretend to be your long...Is Lavalife wearing beergoggles?
I received a tip from a Molson drinker that Lavalife paid something like $5 million a year (CDN) for the deal with Sympatico.MSN.ca. That’s about $4.1M USD to us Budweiser drinkers.Lavalife partners with major Canadian portal
Lavalife announced a five-year exclusive integrated personals partnership with Sympatico.MSN.ca. The new partnership gives singles the opportunity to access Lavalife content and services across all Sympatico.MSN.ca properties, including its portal, MSN Hotmail and MSN...Japanese gangsters swindle thousands
From the Daily Yomiuri: A Yokohama-based group of gangsters, motorcycle gang members and former computer software programmers swindled about 10,000 people out of a total of about 1 billion yen ($10M US) in charges for more than 100 fictitious dating service Web sites...Matchnet changes name to Spark Networks
MatchNet plc announced that the company has changed its corporate name to Spark Networks plc. The company said it believes the word “Spark” possesses imagery that makes it particularly relevant to the online personals business, and that it expects the...Behavioral targeting
Last summer there was some talk about advertising to singles on dating sites. If your site offers free membership, thats about the only choice you have to monetize those eyeballs. Most of the larger sites that take ads have deals with advertising networks, or in the...
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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