Online Dating Industry News 8-1-11
Every Argument Every Couple Ever Has EVER. from Casey Donahue on Vimeo. Best new niche dating site I’ve seen in a while, Bearded Mate. Inside Match.com, It’s all about the algorithm. Must-read for industry insiders, talks about Synapse, Match’s...Match Reports Q2 2011 Results
Money continues to fall out of trees for IAC’s Match.com empire. Revenue up 20% last quarter to $116.4M. They are making some very smart business deals and acquisitions and it shows on their balance sheets. Match customer acquisition costs seem to be dropping,...What Happend to the First Wave of Dating Sites?
Markus at Plentyoffish asks whatever happened to old-school dating sites like Perfectmatch, Date, Matchmaker and Christian Cafe? Two years ago they were all in the top 20 and now they don’t even make the top 50. Jdate is barely in the top 40 itself, and that is...Match Wants Facebook Profiles, And How
Back from a week in the woods. Have to find a new place to live in the next few weeks and my car died, not how I expected my summer to go, but that’s life. Plentyoffish blog says that a recent IAC investor call featuring Match CEO Greg Blatt mentions the Okcupid...Match.com Tries Facebook (Again)
Yesterday I speculated at length about Match.com’s plans for Facebook. Since then, several readers wrote in to point me to the Stir application by Match that recently launched on Facebook. Match has taken a subset of its core functionality and is running it as...Is Match Preparing To Launch A Facebook App?
Given the previous post about Match supposedly wanting to build a Badoo clone on Facebook, I decided to poke around the raw html that the Match web servers send to web browsers, which in turn create the Match web pages we look at millions of times every day around the...eAmore NYC Photos
Here are a few photos from eAmore NYC Dating Industry Summit. More at the eAmore Facebook page. Attendee survey is going out today, please fill it out. Video of the event should be ready in the next week or so....Match and OkCupid Are Totally Making Out
Match is clearly implementing a number of features that share functionality DNA with OkCupid. Take for example the (relatively?) new Profile Highlighter. As someone who loves to riff on specific things women put in their profile that catch my eye, I am going to use...Introducing Online Dating Insider
Every since eAmore NYC we’ve seen an increase in readers and newsletter signups, which means its time to introduce Online Dating Insider to our new readers. My name is Dave Evans and I have been blogging about the online dating industry at OnlineDatingPost...
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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