by David Evans | Dating Profiles, Dating Sites & Startups
Will mobile dating apps bring an end to the thousands of stale, dormant or otherwise ignored dating sites? Last year, Swoon was making headlines as the first mobile social dating app made by women. Looks like they couldn’t figure it out, Tagged is closing down...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups
Tinder is getting overwhelmed by camgirls and prostitute spam. Symantec has more on Tinder spam. As predicted, the site of the moment is beginning it’s slow torturous decent into obscurity as the usefulness of the site and the media attention wanes. I just got...
by David Evans | Dating Sites & Startups, Legal
How unfortunate that: 1) The men running Tinder thought it was appropriate to de-emphasize the role of a female co-founder, allegedly following that up with calling her a whore. 2) This is what I am writing about after some time off from blogging. I have little love...
by David Evans | Dating Markets, Dating Sites & Startups, Marketing, Mobile Dating
Hi there, happy summer or winter, depending on where you are at the moment. And why haven’t you heard from me in months? Bought a motorcycle Went to Peru with my father for a month on a life-changing journey Met the woman of my dreams (met at a bar of course)...
by David Evans | Marketing
DatingAdvisors.org and International Dating Coach Association is proud to announce their revolutionary upcoming service for dating websites. Dating websites will now be able to provide their members with personal Live dating advice given by trained dating advisors...
by David Evans | Dating Conferences & Events, Uncategorized
The iDate Award Winners were announce yesterday. I prefer the About.com yearly awards myself. The ballot-box stuffing and sheer number of unheard of sites made a read through this years winners an exercise in editorial restraint. Best Dating Site: POF, which beat...
by David Evans | Dating Safety, Profiles & Matching
Good to see Scamalytics increase their efforts in identifying additional scam vectors on dating and other websites. “As an anti-fraud company we aim to analyze as much relevant data as possible” said Scamalytics co-founder Dan Winchester. “Analysing...
by David Evans | Dating Conferences & Events
Hope everyone in the dating industry is having a good time at iDate this week. Mom broke her hip last week, so I’m being A Good Son and sticking around to help out. Are you at the show? Leave a comment, let us know what you liked, didn’t like, want to see...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
Earlier this year a few intrepid dating sites made company videos and I’m wondering if we’ll see some holiday versions over the next few days. It’s high-season in the dating industry after all, perfect to time get closer to your members. For...
by David Evans | Marketing
Love to see Jan Koum at WhatsApp take the rest of the messaging industry to task (Tech Crunch) regarding active vs. total number of users. Messaging apps are throwing around claims of 100 million, 300 million users, but how many of them are actually engaged with these...