by David Evans | Online Dating Industry
The Internet unit of Playboy Enterprises is considering expanding into the online dating business, according to Jay Jay Nesheim, Playboy spokeswoman. But there are no imminent plans, she said. Asked how an online dating service would work when Playboy’s...
by David Evans | Dating Research
MarketingSherpa’s Publisher Anne Holland just held an in-depoth teleconference with email deliverability expert George Bilbrey of Return Path. A good overview of how spam filters, ISPs and challenge-response are changing (for the good and the bad) how companies...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
6 years and going strong!
by David Evans | Legal, Online Dating Industry
49-year old David Thomas Davies told a 56-year old Santa Barbara businesswoman he was involved in a top secret British intelligence operation and convinced her to buy him a Porsche Cayenne and give him $70,000 in cash. Also arrested was Carolyn...
by David Evans | Online Dating Industry
Match announced that Jim Safka has been named chief executive officer (CEO) and will start in that position September 9. Mr. Safka has been working with the current CEO, Tim Sullivan, and the senior management team at Match.com to ensure a smooth transition. Tim...
by David Evans | Dating Markets
Online dating services are taking their customers back to the bars. Chris Terrill, Match.com’s vice president for off-line initiatives at Match, won’t give dollar figures, but says his division’s revenues have more than doubled since last year, when...
by David Evans | Dating Conferences & Events, Dating Research
Mercedes- Benz USA and Match.com have teamed up to take advantage of the unique relationship between people and their cars, using cars as the “vehicles” for potential relationships. In Miami. The “Wheels of Attraction” event added a new...
by David Evans | Online Dating Industry
5 million users, with over 6,000 marriages and hundreds of thousands of relationships. Not bad since I heard they only had about 400,000 members last year. Shows you what $5 million in marketing will do for you. Angelique Faul, please let us know how many of those 5...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
LookWow announced the first web-based photo enhancement service designed for consumers. Two things about this release. First, free image enhancement websites have been around since the dawn of the web. Second, if your picture stinks, patent-pending (meaning repurposed...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Non-branded apparel, foreign trade zones in Las Vegas, innovative subscription-based eBusinesses, and above-average operating margins, sound interesting? BIB Holdings Ltd. is buying Incode Corporation is what it boils down to. How many outsiders have tried to buy into...