by David Evans | Dating Markets
DateBid, the webcam auction-style dating game on Facebook, today announced the company has partnered with Betsy Russell, star of the upcoming film SAW3D, to give die-hard fans the opportunity to bid on a webcam date with the celebrity. The winning bidder will receive...
by David Evans | Dating Markets
Looks like someone in the eHarmony translation department working on the Brazilian version of the site knocked off early one day and forgot about a few buttons. New market entry = copy server, paste to another server, add country-specific url and translation and...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
Philips is spicing up it’s product demo’s with the launch of ‘Nigel and Victoria’, a romantic comedy which broadcasts exclusively online. The series of eight episodes is about Victoria, a popular Dutch gadget lover that reviews new Philips...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
datinginsider @Zoosk catching up with other dating sites which import Facebook data. FYI Match was doing this (manually) with MatchWords five years ago. 21 Oct 2010 from TweetDeck datinginsider Seeking Happily Ever After To Premiere In Boston http://bit.ly/c0sdJc 21...
by David Evans | Dating Research, Marketing
Most of you have probably read the OKCupid blog, OK Trends. The October issue of Inc. Magazine has a good article about how OkCupid used statistical analysis to double its Web traffic via a series of enlightening and often surprising blog posts. Regardless of if you...
by David Evans | Marketing
A few posts to go while the server move continues. Looks like Zoosk has redone their affiliate marketing campaign. Look at the difference in payouts. Which one do you think affiliates will choose? Turned on nice formatting for smartphones and iPads. I think...
by David Evans | Mobile Dating
This is cool, I hope participating New Yorkers will share their experience with this. MeetMoi is throwing an event (loosely defined because there is nowhere to go) the first week in November. The meetMoi NOW mobile application is an absolute “first” for...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
Marketing a dating site is incredibly expensive. Just look at these numbers, from an article in Barron’s about
by David Evans | Dating Conferences & Events, Uncategorized
On January 20, 2011 in Miami at iDate2011, The Internet Dating Conference and Online Personals Watch will host the second annual Online Dating Industry Awards. The awards represent the top 11 categories of the industry. They want you to be involved. You can nominate...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
I was amazed yet again that the only dating site to wish me a happy birthday today was OKCupid. Granted I only have about 15 profiles up these days, but thats no excuse for top dating sites not to send out an automated email on birthdays. Thats just really sad.