Virtual Dating Assistants on CNN
Scott Valdez from Virtual Dating Assistants was featured on CNN yesterday. The story mentioned that Nielsen says there was a 21% increase in people using dating sites in 2009.Online Dating Industry News 2-3-10
Match.com UK, which is now part of Meetic, has launched MatchAffinity which is not to be confused with Match UK or dating.uk.msn.com which is powered by Match. Markus quotes: MatchAffinity helps people to find their partner through some more scientific means. Each...Avid Life Media Postpones IPO
Not 48 hours after FriendFinder postponed their planned initial public offering this week, another stalled dating industry IPO. This time It’s Avid Life Media, which owns the Ashley Madison cheaters adult site. Avid wanted to raise the planned $60 million to...Facebook Releases HipHop for PHP
Mildly technical post here. If reducing dating site infrastructure costs and speeding up web pages doesn’t interest you, feel free to skip this. Much of Facebook’s infrastructure runs on the PHP scripting language, which is slow because it...Notes on Customer Acquisition and Viral Marketing From Andrew Chen
Andrew Chen recently led a session on customer acquisition and viral marketing at the First Round Capital CEO Summit. Andrew is a go-to guy on this stuff, deep background and the kind of person I’d like to get into a conversation with about viral harmonics (and...Older People Get Hitched Faster Online
Lots of research papers flowing across my desk in recent months. Today I read that Iowa State University sociologists have found out that spouses who met online are older, less likely to be marrying for the first time, and have much shorter courtships —...People Media Tells All- Succeeding in the Online Dating Business
This is one session I wish I had been able to attend last week at iDate. People Media VP Ron Worthy told the story of how the leading niche dating brand went from startup to Match.com acquisition in a few short years. People Media operates 27 individual web...BadOnlineDates.com Expands the Online and Social Dating Experience
Quick shout-out to Jennifer Kelton, who’s BadOnlineDates combines the best of social networking and technology with online dating. BOD provides community members with more sophisticated social tools that they already use in their everyday lives: an iPhone...What Happened to the Online Dating Industry in September?
Reading the interview with Shaddi founder Anupam G. Mittal over at OPW. If you look at the UK market, in September we saw a dramatic fall. This is the third time I’ve heard this in a week, and not just in the UK. Wondering what factors are involved with this...
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