by David Evans | Dating Site Features, Online Dating Industry, Online Dating Innovation
Several months ago Match.com developed a HowAboutWe clone called DateSpark and rolled it out in select test markets. Looks like the testing went well, because this morning I was greeted with the following. One outcome is that HowAboutWe sues Match for a lot of money,...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
A reporter from a business magazine wants to talk to dating site investors. Contact me and I’ll put you in touch.
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Jiayuan International Ltd., operator of the largest online dating platform in China, today announced its unaudited financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2011. Net revenues for the second quarter of 2011 were RMB83.3 million (US$12.9 million),...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
Markus at Plentyoffish says Plentyoffish users send 5.5 Billion Messages a year, 27 times what Match users send. My only question is how many emails are responded to? Sent emails is only half of the equation. PeopleRank: Quora Is Developing An Algorithm To Determine...
by David Evans | Marketing
Had a great conversation with Ross at Global Personals (White Label Dating). Inspiring discussion and provided fodder for what should be a number of blog posts. Check out the monthly active user drop-off of three popular Facebook dating applications. Are You...
by David Evans | Mobile Dating
Social location-based service WhosHere has closed a $1.25 million first round of funding. Offering free SMS texting, free MMS image sending, and free VoIP calls and four million registered users, co-founder and COO Stephen Smith calls it, “a mobile, location-aware...
by David Evans | Dating Site Technology, Mobile Dating
Longtime sponsor Boonex has announced the release of Dolphin 7.0.7. 100 improvements, fixes and new features. Along with being a generally improved package it brings some substantial additions: support for 3rd-party mobile apps and Page Access Control. Hosting...
by David Evans | Dating Research, Marketing, Mobile Dating
Looks like people are finally starting to use mobile dating apps more often than on their computers. Tracking two million singles across Compete, comScore and Alexa, mobile app analytics firm Flurry reveals that singles spend around 8.4 minutes in mobile dating apps...
by David Evans | Dating Site Features
When it comes to matters of the heart many people look to the stars for guidance. Not long ago that was limited to a daily horoscope, or a much more involved in-person consultation with an astrologer. Now online astrologer Kelli Fox and her team at The Astrologer, Inc...
by David Evans | Dating Site Technology
You: Dating site that send out eighty bajillion emails a day. Problem: Most of them end up in the spam folder. Solution: Eloqua’s 6th rule of content marketing is: If wonky, lean into it. And that’s what we did with the Grande Guide to Deliverability & Privacy. ...