PRESS RELEASE – Mar 27 — Bone Fish, white label dating provider launched BBW Partners, a niche dating site that helps plus-sized individuals find love. Today, ~46% of men and 32% of women in the U.K. are classified as clinically overweight. Statistics for the U.S. are even worse.
The full article was originally published at PR Inside, but is no longer available.
NEW MEDIA AGE — Mar 26 – Express Newspapers Group has launched a branded online dating service on The Daily Star site powered by WhiteLabelDating.com (WLD). The service is targeted at the title's 18-35-year-old male demographic and will be cross-promoted online and via print.
The full article was originally published at NMA, but is no longer available.
OPW — Mar 26 — Nerve.com may have some competition in LoveInTheDumps.com an irreverant
online magazine and rather impersonal dating site. In 'Bitch Whispers'
three catty women critique profile photos. In response to a picture of
a guy with dreadlocks playing a sitar "So we're gonna play hot or
homeless are we?" In the 'Baggage Claim' section users can drop off
their problems for the amusement of fellow readers. In 'Date
Dispatch,' learn what women should not do if they want to score a
decent dude. Love In The Dumps is fresh, witty and a little far out.
TECH CRUNCH — Mar 25 — Grindr is one of the first iPhone applications
geared towards gay and bisexual men. Without proper security
measures, bigots could easily download such applications and use them
to pinpoint targets for hateful slurs and potentially even violence.
Grindr deals with these issues by obscuring a user’s absolute location
by default. Rather than plotting each user on the map. Grindr displays
how far away they are. FULL ARTICLE @ TECH CRUNCH
BOSTON GLOBE — Mar 25 — Despite all the talk of cougar culture, men still want to date younger women. Men still seek younger women, especially as those men get older themselves. "It's the general rule," said Mark Brooks, an online dating industry consultant who runs Online Personals Watch. "With men dating women, it tends to be up to six years younger but it will only be up to two years older. Guys tend to have unrealistic expectations," said Brooks, who bragged that he is one of the mythical Ashton Kutcher-types (he recently dated someone nine years older than him). "Most men are too busy looking at magazines and not busy enough looking in the mirror." Adele Testani, founder of Hurrydate said "we have actually tried to capitalize on the cougar trend and it didn't really work for us. People really want that more traditional arrangement." Kate Bilenki, a spokeswoman for Plentyoffish.com, has not seen a male profile call for an older woman. "For every 55-year old male, there are three 55-year-old women", she adds. FULL ARTICLE @ BOSTON GLOBE
Mark Brooks: Photoshopped pictures of skinny models in magazines are destroying our society. How can singles photos on dating sites compare to these unrealistic, unnatural photos? A hundred years ago it was the women of girth and curves that were lauded after. 'Women of the street' were skinny and most available to men and became personifications of sexual desire over the years. Sex sells. Sex became connected with skinny, and now we have a generation of kids trying to reach unattainable and unnatural levels of skinny. I'd love a six pack. But why? I've been brainwashed into thinking its sexy. Just as women have been brainwashed into thinking super skinny is THE look. Its not good for the dating industry ultimately. Singles should feel more comfortable posting their photos on dating sites. Your comments please.
OPW — Mar 25 — A class action lawsuit
has been
filed against Mate1 for providing its services to women for free but
charging men. The suit was filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
PRESS RELEASE — Mar 24 – Mate1.com has partnered with iovation to help its customers fight online fraud and abuse. Using iovation ReputationManager(TM), subscribers can track the history of fraud and abuse associated with each unique computer or hand-held device used to access their website. Before iovation, the primary way in which Mate1 made connections between millions of customer accounts was by looking at email addresses, names, photographs, or physical addresses, which is extremely time consuming.
The full article was originally published at Portland Business Journal, but is no longer available.
PRESS RELEASE — Mar 25 – DatingTrail, a web site designed to bring dating sites, events and matchmaking together in destination, has launched this week.The free site lets visitors browse dating events taking place in the UK. There are up to 800 UK events listed, 100+ singles holidays and 20+ online dating sites. DatingTrail.co.uk allows users to submit impartial reviews.
The full article was originally published at Netimperative, but is no longer available.
TECH CRUNCH — Mar 23 — Match.com is releasing a native iPhone application. The app allows users to edit
their profile, upload photos, and has an opt-in to a location
based feature that allows them to see singles in their area. FULL ARTICLE @ TECH CRUNCH
MEDIABIZNET — Mar 24 — News Digital Media partners with match.com to compete against the Fairfax owned RSVP, which currently dominates the online dating scene in Australia. The agreement will see Match.com’s Australian brand and content integrated throughout news.com.au as well as launching a co-branded website, dating.news.com.au.
The full article was originally published at MediaBizNet, but is no longer available.