NEW YORK, Nov. 23 /PRNewswire/ — Cupid.com, a leading online dating service, today announced its acquisition of PreDating, America's largest speed dating company. PreDating is the leading provider of speed dating events for single professionals in the U.S. and run local events in more than 70 cities around the country. "There's no turn downs and no pressure at these events. We searched for the perfect singles event and PreDating is it!," commented Mark Brooks, Cupid.com's VP Marketing & Business Development.
Mark Brooks: I joined Cupid to make this happen. An industry first. ;-) No other online dating site has integrated singles events into their offerings like this. Match dumped their events division recently. It's far more efficient just to focus on one event format that plays into online dating. Match actually used my club http://www.ace-club.com as part of their inspiration set. Ooops. ACE is very unwieldy. Works fine as a little club. It's a pig to scale.
Maybe we should just have glowing reports about cupid.com from now on, now that you may have lost your objectivity, Mark. I guess you will be trying to use this forum to undermine the competition from now on, while promoting your new employer. Good luck. We all wish you the best!!! LOL
“No other online dating site has integrated singles events into their offerings like this.”
Could you clarify how the integration differed from that of Match.com and Matchlive.com (now defunct)? Thanks.
Match and Matchlive were two different sites. PreDating is being melded into the Cupid site. Simply more tightly woven together. Fair comment on objectivity. I’m definitely a little biased. 🙂 But, please, argue with the comments as well. Where are they wrong? Educate me (and the OPW readers).