by David Evans | Dating Markets
Fernando Ardenghi has written up some stats and his thoughts on Match.com’s foray into Japan in A Brief Review Of Match.com in Japan. Favorite quote, “Match Japan is like a flag in the Moon.” Fernando is opinionated to the extreme but lately...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance, Online Dating Innovation
As the dating high-season approaches, dating sites are busy pitching topics to the media. Big-box retailer (your odds are better at Match), casual, group or niche dating are the usual suspects. This year its the AARP crowd, which appears to be the only market segment...
by David Evans | Marketing
Adding around 50,000 members a day, the originally-Facebook-based AreYouInterested thinks online dating is stupid. Made me laugh, made me click, mission accomplished.
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups, Marketing
Pretty much every woman who has tried to contact me has been a spam/scammer but I still appreciated this bit of holiday cheer from Smartdate. Why do I know they are scammers? Every woman had a photo, they were all hot and every email said to contact them at yahoo or...
by David Evans | Dating Research
Go on ABC’s hit-show ‘Bachelor Pad’. Win $125,000. Decide to write book focused on empowering women through an understanding of ‘Men’s Men’. Sit back and collect $22.99 a few thousand times. Love the author quote: “My dad and I have long talked about my putting...
by David Evans | Audio & Video, Dating Sites & Startups, Profiles & Matching
Lucent Heart is a Zodiac-inspired Anime MMORPG(Massively multiplayer online role-playing game). Gamania Digital Entertainment announced that it’s extending the deadline to enter its big Lucent Heart Star contest until December 18th, giving guys and girls additional...
by David Evans | Marketing, Social: Dating & Networking
From Business Insider: Facebook may not overtake Google as the primary way we search, but for dating sites like Match.com the worlds largest social network is currently sending more traffic than Google. Not a surprise if you consider the massive amount of dating site...
by David Evans | Legal, Online Dating Industry
Lots of legal action against dating sites, both current and historical. Even Spark Networks is suing other dating sites? The concept of profiles, searching for people and emailing those people is like breathing air, plenty of prior art out there. Recent dating...