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| In November 2004 Match.com was recognized by the Guinness book of records as the largest online dating site in the world. It continues to be a superpower in the world of online match making with more than 14 million people visiting the site every month (crunchbase.com). Match.com pioneered the sphere of online personals in 1995 when it was created by Gary Kremen. Since its creation in Dallas, Texas it has grown to help singles find love in 24 countries and is offered in 8 different languages. Match.com offers many features unique to their site such as MindBindFind which is an exclusive monthly programme offered by Dr Phil to help get your mind ready for online dating. It also offers a 6 month guarantee that if you don’t find love in the first 6 months you get the next 6 months for free. Match.com was bought by its current owner IAC in 1999 for $50million. The European strand of Match.com was divested to Meetic in 2009 and Match bought them in September 2011. Match.com already bought People Media, OKCupid and SinglesNet. | |||
| Website: | http://www.match.com | ||
| Owned by: | IAC InterActiveCorp, IAC CEO: Joey Levin (since Aug ’15) | ||
| CEO: | Sam Yagan | ||
| Business address: | PO Box 12305, Dallas, Texas, 75225 | ||
| Phone: | 214-265-3039 | ||
| Email / Contact form: | www.match.com/help/contactus.aspx | ||
| Number of employees: | 424 (Linkedin, Oct 2011) | ||
| Blog: | http://blog.match.com | ||
| Wikipedia page: | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match.com | ||
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/Match | ||
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/match | ||
| LinkedIn: | http://www.linkedin.com/company/match.com | ||
| Date Started: | 1995 | ||
| Founder: | Gary Kremen | ||
| Acquisitions: |
POF (07/15) |
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| OkCupid (02/11) | |||
| SinglesNet (02/10) | |||
| PeopleMedia (07/09) | |||
| Zhenai (09/11 – 20% stake) | |||
| One & Only Network (9/1999) | |||
| Subsidiaries: | PeopleMedia OkCupid SinglesNet |
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| Countries served: | 24 including, USA, UK, Australia, Latin America | ||
| Business model: | paid dating site Guarentee 6 months – $23.99 Standard 6 months – $20.99 Value 3 months – $26.99 Standard 3 months – $23.99 1 month – $41.99 |
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| Financial Results: | http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/matchcom-financials.html | ||
| Category: | general | ||
| Affiliate program: | http://us.match.com/cp.aspx?cpp=cppp/affiliates/index.html?lid=4 | ||
| Traffic: | 3 256 053 (June 2015) | ||
| Match.com news on OnlinePersonalsWatch | |||
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