A Nightclub, A Phone And a Hookup
As companies continue to figure out ways to leverage location-based services, the dating industry has taken a few baby steps in promising directions. Yet the feedback I’m hearing is that the majority of singles are going to remain wary of dating services that...What Is Match.com Going to Do Next?
Given yesterday’s impending acquisition of Singlesnet, I wanted to throw out a few things that I have been thinking about lately. Recently dating industry insiders have been talking more about how to compete with Match.com. In my mind, to compete with Match its...IAC’s Match.com to Acquire Singlesnet
Several weeks ago I heard from a reliable source that IAC Has Acquired Another Top Dating Site. I’ve known who it was all along, and decided to do the right thing and not mention the name of the company being acquired on this blog. I just heard from...HerWay.com and Honestly Online Team Up To Make Dating Safer
HerWay.com, a unique dating site that enables women to lead the matchmaking process, announced a partnership with Honesty Online today. At HerWay, women already control their dating experience, so they decided an additional layer of trust to make it safer and easier...Which Test Won? 2-24-10
It’s time for another episode of Which Test Won? Leave a comment with your results.Augmented Identity App Great For Stalking, Death of Business Cards Imminent
Swedish mobile software firm The Astonishing Tribe has created a mobile application called Recognizr, a facial recognition service based on a mashup of face recognition technology, computer vision, cloud computing, and augmented reality. Point your phone at...Zoosk is Crushing All Dating Site Traffic
Look at this ComScore data on Zoosk vs. Match and Singlesnet. Of course we don’t know what is driving this gargantuan traffic spike, but Zoosk raised $30 million, and if they poured some of that into a marketing campaign (Zoosk ads are everywhere), that could...What are the best nonverbal predictors of second dates?
Let’s all help out Angela, a college student studying nonverbal communication. Angela asked me to promote her survey, which should take all of five minutes. The purpose of this survey is to determine what nonverbal behaviors occur most frequently during a first...Google Trends Comparison Between OKCupid and PlentyofFish
Traffic stats tell a story, as do what people are searching for. Here’s a Google Trends screenshot of PlentyofFish and OKCupid. See how POF is spiky and all over the place whereas OKC is a more gradual and stable curve? Also notice how many of the spikes in...
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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