by David Evans | Dating Site Features, Dating Site Technology, Dating Sites & Startups, Online Dating Industry, Online Dating Innovation, Social: Dating & Networking
Old-growth social network Tagged has raised $15 million. As the other top social networks struggled in a Facebook-dominated world, Tagged was busy acquiring its competitors and complimentary services to firmly position itself as a competitor to MeetMe and Badoo. It...
by David Evans | Audio & Video, Dating Industry Finance, Mobile Dating, Social: Dating & Networking
http://youtu.be/lB8IK7u-XV4 Interesting to see the continuing divergence between TheComplete.me and LikeBright (I’m an advisor). One practically needs an operating manual to understand how it works and the other you can use when you are hammered on Chardonnay. I...
by David Evans | Dating Safety, Marketing, Profiles & Matching, Social: Dating & Networking
The founder and chairman of eHarmony, Dr. Neil Clark Warren, is returning to the job of CEO! Its been years since we were graced with Dr. Warren’s presence on late-night tv, lets see what he can accomplish after ousting Jeremy Verba, the former Zynga exec who...
by David Evans | Marketing
Look what I found on Facebook today. HAW, busy spending tens of millions of dollars in VC money, has just launched an $150/month upscale dating deals service for couples, and yet they rely on this kind of bottom-feeder marketing. A sampling from the post: Girls ignore...
by David Evans | Dating Safety, Legal
This is the kind of story I hate writing. Skout, longtime friends of Online Dating Insider and the dating industry, has had three occurrences of rape tied to the services in the last few weeks. In After Rapes Involving Children, Skout, a Flirting App, Faces...