LA TIMES — Feb 5 — In a survey by the Wedding Channel of 4,700 newly engaged or married people who registered, 12% found love online. Last-minute travel website Site59 in October launched a feature called "Meet Me In ." Travelocity is planning to roll out "Meet Me In ." on its website by the end of March.
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NORTH JERSEY MEDIA GROUP — Feb 4 — If a single woman posts an online profile and is contacted by 200 guys in about a week, what are her chances of finding her soul mate? The answer is … not as good as you might expect. According to a recent Nielsen/NetRatings survey, 30% of men are using online dating services to find a "no-strings fling" — compared with 8% of women. 42% of women are looking for a long-term relationship through online dating services, compared with 46% of men, according to the recent Nielsen/NetRatings survey.
Mark Brooks: Many women are inundated, and many guys are ignored. eHarmony attempts to neutralise this problem with it’s slower spoonfed Q&A approach.
PR WEB — Feb 3 — Cupid.com/PreDating, North America's largest speed dating company, announced today that it will attempt to establish the Guinness™ World Record for the largest simultaneous speed dating event ever held in one evening. More than 150 PreDating parties are scheduled to be held in 91 cities in the US and Canada on Wednesday evening, February 8th – 43,200 6-minute speed dates in one evening. RELEASE @ PR WEB
BBC NEWS — Feb 2 — There are 12 million unattached people in Britain. Since the 1960s, the number of people with no-one to go home to has quadrupled. Two thirds of single people looking for love have signed up to dating agencies. Nate Elliot, an analyst with JupiterResearch explains "the sites give people an opportunity to see a lot of other singles in an environment that's very comfortable for them. "There's not a lot of risk and there's not a lot of stress involved in browsing profiles from home." Upmarket conventional agencies are riding high too. Far from being wiped out by the web the internet's actually brought dating into people's homes and it's taken away a lot of the taboo. Offline agencies cater to a much more select clientele. FULL ARTICLE @ BBC NEWS
Mark Brooks: Great Expectations, Together Dating/The Right One and It's Just Lunch are the biggest national matchmaking organizations in Great Britain.
Mark Brooks: Wow! I’m going to have to try this out.
PRESS ZOOM — Feb — LargeandLovely.com (est. 1997), for plus size singles, features profiles submitted by plus size singles that are manually screened for content before published. "If objectionable content is found in a personal ad, that profile is deleted and never makes it onto the LargeandLovely.com website. After all, singles want to meet real people with real profiles and not waste their time by browsing fake or offending profiles" said John Jablonski, President. RELEASE @ PRESS ZOOM
PR NEWSWIRE — Jan 31 — Men put a greater importance on Valentines day: 25% made it their 2006 New Year’s resolution to have a date or special someone to share the romantic holiday with this year. 85% of surveyed men said they hoped to receive a gift on Valentine’s Day. 25% of the men surveyed agreed that calling on an ex for a Valentine’s Day date is much better than being alone. 89% of women, on the other hand would prefer to be "smart and single," date-free at home, than contact an ex. The majority of women, 46%, preferred roses or any other type of flowers in honor of the day. This is the gift that men are most likely to give (55%).