by David Evans | Dating Markets, Dating Sites & Startups
Online dating industry veterans continue to attack JDate’s market share. This time it’s Avalanche LLC, which runs Date.com, Matchmaker and a number of other sites. According to CEO Meir Strahlberg: The outlook for Jewish online dating was bleak. While...
by David Evans | Dating Markets, Dating Research, Marketing, Online Dating Industry, Online Dating Innovation, Profiles & Matching
Today’s New York Times has an article about The Dubious Science of Online Dating. While I was reading it, Markus Frind, founder of Plentyoffish (recently rebranded as POF), sent me ELI J. FINKEL AND BENJAMIN R. KARNEY are wrong at least when it comes to POF....
by David Evans | Dating Research, Profiles & Matching, Uncategorized
Eye-tracking studies and neuromarketing has always fascinated me. Just last week I was looking at the Emotiv EEG headset (me want!), which is getting into reading brainwaves and eye-tracking at the same time, which excited me to no end. Why should the dating industry...
by David Evans | Marketing
During a Skype chat with Sam Moorcroft of Christiancafe.com yesterday, he mentioned that they received a great shout-out on Britain’s Got Talent. Referencing Simon’s Cowell’s break with fiance Mezhgan Hussainy, when a pair of contestants said they had met...
by David Evans | Dating Markets, Dating Research, Dating Sites & Startups, Marketing, Mobile Dating, Profiles & Matching
After a bummer of a sale to FriendFinder Networks, which has proven adept at killing off perfectly good acquisitions, Nerve.com has launched a new dating site. Many people, myself included, consider Nerve/SpringStreet to have been the best “first wave”...