Someone Just Bought 5% of Spark Networks
While we were all sunning in Miami at iDate last week, s Someone named John H. Lewis at Osmium Partners spent $2.5 million to acquire about 5% of Spark Networks, or a little over 1 million shares. SEC notice. I love these investor sites which only have a home page and...iDate, What Did You Think?
Site is running a bit slow, looking into it. Lots of readers went to Miami last week for the Internet Dating Conference. Curious about what attendees thought about the show. Leave a comment. Here are The Internet Dating Industry Awards results. Thursday’s...Where Did They Meet?
Walking back from the convenience store, I was on the phone with Sam Moorcroft from ChristianCafe.com. Right after we hung up I walked past the neighborhood church and an absolutely stunning bride and groom emerged. I said congratulations and asked them how they met?...FriendFinder IPO Delayed Once Again
The Friendfinder IPO, set to occur this Thursday, has been pushed back a week due to a volatile stock market. What are they waiting for, favorable astrological and wind conditions Frankly, I’m not sure how many times the worlds largest network of dating sites...Social Net For Gay Men Fabulis Raises $625K
Fabulis, a social net and lifestyle site aimed at gay men, has raised $625,000 in a first round funding. founder and CEO Jason Goldberg previously sold Socialmedian to Xing. Via Paidcontent. Here’s more on the company from founder Jason Goldberg. Very slick...PlentyofFish Demands Income Description
Saw this while browsing PlentyofFish: Please enter your income, we use it for matchmaking and it will never appear on your profile! You will not show up in the rows of images on top of pages, My Matches and many other sections of the site until you do. This is also...How to Loose Members Gracefully
I subscribe and unsubscribe from websites all the time. Often it’s to see how a site lets me go. Many dating sites make the process unbearable, up to 10 screens of junk to go through. To me, thats being a sore loser, although the argument for this sort of...Gay Dating Site Commercial Banned From Superbowl
This is a classic gorilla marketing tactic deserving a golf-clap. ManCrunch (related to sugar daddy site EstablishedMen), creates an ad that CBS will never approve. Planning on being rejected from the start, they send news to TMZ and enjoy the free publicity....This Valentine’s Day there will be Fewer Lonely Farmers
When it comes to niches one of my favorite originals is FarmersOnly. Of course PeopleMedia is now the clear 500-pound gorilla in the space with it’s network of niche sites, but I’m still a fan of small, passionate dating sites based on well-defined niches....
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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