by David Evans | Dating Research, Marketing, Mobile Dating
Looks like people are finally starting to use mobile dating apps more often than on their computers. Tracking two million singles across Compete, comScore and Alexa, mobile app analytics firm Flurry reveals that singles spend around 8.4 minutes in mobile dating apps...
by David Evans | Marketing
Markus at Plentyoffish asks whatever happened to old-school dating sites like Perfectmatch, Date, Matchmaker and Christian Cafe? Two years ago they were all in the top 20 and now they don’t even make the top 50. Jdate is barely in the top 40 itself, and that is...
by David Evans | Dating Industry Finance
Match.com has announced it intends to launch a voluntary public tender offer for all of the outstanding shares of Meetic S.A. at a price of euro 15.00 per share in cash. The offer price represents a premium of approximately 11.6% on the closing price of Meetic shares...
by David Evans | Dating Safety, Profiles & Matching
Big news in the world of online dating. Match.com has announced it would begin running members through a sex offender registry. The story began to unfold just over a week ago, around the time I interviewed the rape victim, then called Jane Doe, who was attacked by a...
by David Evans | Uncategorized
Personal sites broadcasting singles are a new trend. Along the lines of Welcome to Hook Chas up we have Date My Friend Finger. Take a look at Facereader, which purports to understand personalities based on facial features. Look what it says about me from my photo....