by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
myPartner.com, a boutique hybrid online and offline matchmaking service for gay men and women, has announced that it is for sale. I worked on the site with founder Patrick Perrine when they launched a few years ago. Patrick is 123 kinds of awesome and someone is going...
by David Evans | Audio & Video
Manhunt says: We’re excited to announce a new beta feature that’s only available to our members in New England – Manhunt Chat. With high-quality video and the most men online, Manhunt Chat is the best way to meet guys in real time. Join chat rooms...
by David Evans | Marketing
It will soon be possible to compare the performance of online dating search and social ad campaigns side by side. Clickable, the ad management platform that lets search marketers measure and track the performance of their online marketing campaigns across different...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
This is an April Fools joke but in reality its no joke at all. Facebook is looking to get into the dating game, and it’s turning to Zynga for help. The gist of the new product? Dubbed ‘Relationships’, Facebook is going to soon offer a section of the site dedicated to...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Highlights from the SNAP 2009 financials. SNAP runs Are You Interested, a social dating app similar to Zoosk. – Full Year 2009 Revenue: $3,170,725, as compared to $3,011,627 in full year 2008 — an increase of $159,098 – Q4 2009 Revenue: $816,391 as...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
The OKCupid blog, OkTrends, has put together another informative post. This time the topic is The Democrats Are Doomed, or How A ‘Big Tent’ Can Be Too Big. Republicans form an exceptionally effective opposition party. Today, we’re going to perform a data-driven...
by David Evans | Marketing
Slate ad critic Seth Stevenson tries out a Google TV service that allows you to run your own commercial on national TV for as little as $100. At one point the silly ad they created garnered 1.3 million views and 1,000 website clicks for $1,000.
by David Evans | Uncategorized
Online Dating Insider is proud to announce that we are acquiring Online Personals… nevermind. Wikipedia’s featured article is Wife selling. This is not an April Fools Joke: Google Doesn’t Like Dating. The UK’s leading cinema chain, Cineworld...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
Periodically this blog receives comments pertaining to Date Raters, Don’t Date Him Girl and other reputation exposé and management sites where people can look up usernames on dating sites and find out where someone stands on the crazy/perfection scale....
by David Evans | Uncategorized
Not only are there hundreds of millions of singles on Facebook, pretty soon you will be able to find them via Facebook or third-party geo-location services. The reality is that while Foursquare and Gowalla and Brightkite have well-established user bases and have built...