by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Thanks to SNAP Interactive for showing a little bit of skin. It’s rare and great to be able to get a look at key metrics for dating sites. Cliff Lerner’s quote was interesting: It’s difficult to gain subscribers in August because of seasonal...
by David Evans | Dating Conferences & Events
Excuse the mess today, changing up the blog a bit and getting things looking right across browsers/tablets/IE/Chrome/FF. There are a couple of spot left for attendees and sponsors. I spoke at their Miami event a few years ago, great crowd and event. More information...
by David Evans | Mobile Dating
Turns out Tagged’s dating app for women, built by women, was a flop. Back to the drawing board.
by David Evans | Dating Research
The amount of research being done in regards to mate-finding never ceases the educate and amuse me. Researchers at Nottingham Trent University have revealed how wearing a plain white t-shirt with a black letter ‘T’ on the front significantly improves the...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
While in Boston on a recent business trip I found myself at the same restaurant where I met with some potential Coffee Meets Bagel investors a few years ago. Since then CMB has convinced investors to give them over $3 million to fund growth and product development....
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Greg Liberman spent half of his professional career running Spark Networks. The result is a lackluster stock price, junky Christian dating site and stale & forgotten JDate. Spark should be as large as Match.com by now. Instead, the general clusterf&*k with...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
I was just talking with someone about the recent de-emphasis of SEO practices and how Google and Facebook are paying more attention to shareability and other social metrics as opposed to traditional SEO efforts. And then I see this. This is what you get when your...
by David Evans | Dating Research
This is the best article about gaming online dating I’ve ever read. Others have attempted to create super-targeted profiles, written books and been on tv, but Chris McKinlay has them all beat. From the Wired Article, How a Math Genius Hacked OkCupid to Find True...
by David Evans | Online Dating Innovation
The OkCupid blog is back, and as usual, it’s ruffling feathers. This just a few weeks after Facebook came clean about doing experiments where they manipulated user data to explore the contagion of emotion, among other things. It’s great to see OkCupid...
by David Evans | Dating Site Technology, Dating Sites & Startups, Online Dating Innovation
Looks like DNA-based matching could be a thing again. SingldOut “is an exclusive dating site connecting single professionals via LinkedIn.” The company has partnered with Instant Chemistry to provide, “The first offering matches based on your...