by David Evans | Mobile Dating
A new iPhone app called Singlesquare builds a location-based dating service on top of Foursquare’s check-in technology. Brian Callery, Co-Founder of single SingleSquare says the app is based around ‘sightings’ of single people in public venues, like...
by David Evans | Marketing, Social: Dating & Networking
As we prepare to roll out our webinar series I wanted to let everyone know about Anne Holland’s latest Subscription Site Insider webinar, Paid Subscription Marketing Via Facebook Ads. Facebook ads are going to be even more important than Google ads for many...
by David Evans | Marketing
Will the dating industry take advantage of Facebook’s new Sponsored Stories ad units? There are two types of sponsored stories for Facebook page administrators: “Like Stories” and “Page Post Stories.” The most incredible aspect of these upgrades, outside...
by David Evans | Dating Research
Artists are doing fascinating things with data from dating sites. From WNYC: In 2008, Manhattan-based artist and programmer R. Luke DuBois set up an account at Match.com. DuBois was fascinated by the way people presented themselves online and quickly discovered that...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Today’s OMG! story is brought to you by Zoosk. In the past year or so Zoosk has raised $30 million, grown leaps and bounds, suffered some backlash, turned on subscriptions, hired and fired talent, run television commercials and in general ran roughshod over the...
by David Evans | Profiles & Matching, Social: Dating & Networking
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, social dating site Heartbroker pulls off the covers today. Heartbroker addresses what the founders call the pervasive problems of profile misrepresentation and scamming found in many popular dating sites. The site uses feedback...
by David Evans | Mobile Dating, Social: Dating & Networking
There was a football game yesterday. Like you, I watch it for the commercials. And what’s up with the first Superbowl ever with no cheerleaders? I didn’t even know the two teams didn’t have cheerleaders. I loved the VW commercial but this one...
by David Evans | Dating Research
The US Census bureau has published its annual factoid-a-palooza regarding Valentine’s Day. A summary of interesting points follows. Opinions differ as to who was the original Valentine but the most popular theory is that he was a clergyman who was executed for...
by David Evans | Legal, Marketing
Oh no! Looks like Patti Stanger, Millionaire Matchmaker has raised the ire of certain male clients. According to iVillage’s Did the Millionaire Matchmaker Sabotage Her Clients?, three male millionaires who recently appeared on the BRAVO show complained that...
by David Evans | Dating Research
Via linkbait attempt to drive traffic to Online Counseling Degree.