Month: June 2010

 

Website: www.meetic.com

Company profile: MEETIC is the leading European dating agency. Offering two different services – dating and matchmaking with Meetic and Meetic Affinity mainly – in 16 European countries (France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Italy, Spain, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Germany, Portugal, Poland, Norway and the Netherlands) and Latin America, MEETIC is available in 13 languages. With 945,000 subscribers, and following the buyout of the European activities of its competitor Match.com (the US group IAC and global leader), MEETIC is currently the benchmark for online dating in Europe. It is in particular thanks to a dynamic online recruitment policy that MEETIC has been able to become market leader, across Europe.

Date started:   November 2001
Current CEO:    Alexandre Lubot (since July 2013)
Past CEOs:      Marc Simoncini (founder of the company)
Revenue:         results for Q3 2013 (for first 9 monts of 2013): EUR 126.1M; increased by 2,7% (OPW, Oct 2013)
Owners:          IAC has 87,5% control
Numbers of employees: 167 (Crunchbase, June 2010)
Based in:         BP 109, 92106 Boulogne Cedex, France
Email:             http://www.meetic.com/help/contact_ex_v.php?type=2

History, acquisitions & partnerships:
November 2015 – Dating site Meetic has launched a new Meetic Wear App.
October 2013 – Meetic Acquires e-kontakt In Sweden, Norway And Denmark
September 2013 – Match.com Increases Its Stake In Meetic From 80.8% To 87.5%
May 2013 –  Meetic has acquired the assets of Pastas Party, the leading French website for singles events.
February 2013 – Meetic Bought Swedish Dating Site SprayDate
December 2012 –  Meetic has signed an agreement for the acquisition of Massive Media, the company behind Twoo.com
February 2010 – Meetic and Match.com, a subsidiary of IAC, signed a strategic agreement to create a joint venture in Latin America (Meetic’s Brazilian site, ParPerfeito)
June 2009 –  Meetic has signed a partnership agreement with Microsoft’s MSN portal, which will see MSN provide Meetic’s dating and matchmaking services to customers in 12 European countries
February 2009 – Meetic acquired Match.com Europe for €5M (IAC sold 100% of the stock of the entity that houses Match.com’s European operations for an approximate 27% stake in Meetic)
January 2008 – Meetic joined Ethoca’s global network of businesses aiming to expand their customer base and increase profits
June 2008 – the launch of Meetic Affinity, its new matchmaking site.
Year 2007 – Meetic acquired Dating Direct for £30m, Meetic has also signed an agreement for the acquisition, from the same shareholders, of Chemistry.co.uk which organizes UK singles events.
November 2007 – Meetic buys Germany’s Neu.de matchmaking site with 26,000 subscribers for 25 million euros ($36.83 million) in cash.
October 2007 – Meetic has signed a distribution agreement with AOL to become the exclusive dating channel on several European portals of Time Warner Inc’s Internet division.
October 2007 – Meetic officially has acquired 60% of FC&CO’s capital and its voting rights for 3 million euros. FC&CO publishes Cleargay, the largest gay dating site in France, which has 5,000 subscribers and recorded 750,000 euros in revenue last financial year
October 2007 – Meetic, the world’s second-largest online dating service, will launch PeexMe. This latest social network will focus mainly on members’ photos and will use an ad-supported model on its free access, premium membership, and mobile subscription services
Year 2007 – Meetic acquired Yeeyoo
July 2006 – Meetic launched a localized Chinese site called “Mi Tang,” or “Sweetie” in English.
February 2006 – Meetic has acquired LEXA.nl, one of the largest dating sites in the Netherlands, for $13.6 million.

Ad agency:    October 2009 – Smart AdServer
                   Year 2008 – Launch of the summer advertising campaigns in Germany, the UK
                   and for Meetic Affinity in France

Promotion Channels Used: affiliate programs – Dating Direct: direct affiliate program, 50%   per sale, £2,5 per lead

– Meetic Financials (under Match Group since 2011)

Meetic news on OnlinePersonalsWatch.

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Website: www.snap-interactive.com

Company profile: SNAP Interactive, Inc. provides online dating applications on social networking Websites. New York-based SNAP Interactive, Inc. originally launched stand-alone online dating site IamFreeTonight.com in 2006. Then came the May ‘07 Facebook® Platform launch – SNAP recognized this as an extraordinary opportunity to acquire users at little to no cost and immediately shifted its focus to building dating applications on Social Networking websites. Today SNAP has 8 total applications across Facebook, MySpace, Hi5 and Bebo. Its brands “Are You Interested”, “Meet New People” and “Flirt With Me” have over 16 million total users and receive in excess of 1 million visits per day.

Date started:   2004 – Snap Interactive, Inc. was incorporated in 2004. The company was
                     formerly known as eTwine Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to Snap
                     Interactive, Inc. in 2007.
Current CEO:    Clifford Lerner (since 2005)
Past CEOs:      Darrell Lerner – founder of eTwine Holdings, Inc.
Traffic:           Snap-Interactive.com: too low to be listed (Compete, June                     2015)
                     AYI.com: 230,712 unique visitors (-dtto-)
                     The Grade: traffic to low to be listed for now (-dtto-)
Revenue:         latest numbers available under this link
Owners:          SNAP Interactive
Numbers of employees: 39 (Crunchbase, August 2014)
Based in:         NY, USA
                     363 7th Avenue
                     13th Floor
                     New York, NY 10001
Email:             contact@snap-interactive.com
Phone:            (516) 942-2030
Annual advertising budget: Advertising and marketing expense for the three months ended March 31, 2010 was $829,416 (May 2010, OPW article)
Promotion Channels Used: affiliate programs

History:
February 2015 – Snap Interactive announces $3M senior secured convertible note financing

November 2014 – The Grade, a free matchmaking app that launched

May 2014 – bus dev agreement with Match.com extended for 3 more months

March 2014 – Alex Harrington, former MeetMoi CEO joins Snap Interactive as COO

December 2013 – Snap partners with Match.com

March 2013 – AreYouInterested rebranded as AYI.com

September 2011 – Snap Launches Mobile Web Version of AreYouInterested.com

February 2010 – Are You Interested introduces virtual gift store. CEO Clifford Lerner said the app. is raking in “a couple thousand dollars a day” just from gift purchases starting at $1.25 for a heart, to $20 for a picture of an engagement ring or gold bricks.

November 2009 –  SNAP Interactive launches a new GPS-based chat feature on its Are You Interested? iPhone mobile dating app.

June 2009 – SNAP Interactive, Inc. announced today that it has substantially upgraded its Are You Interested?’ iPhone™ dating application in recent weeks, and has made several key integrations to expand access to the application and increase the overall product offering.

May 2009 – SNAP Interactive announced the beta launch of AreYouInterested.com, a stand-alone online dating website incorporating a Facebook Connect integration. Users can login to AreYouInterested.com with their Facebook identity and allow the site to access the member’s existing Facebook profile information

March 2009 – SNAP Interactive Launches iPhone Dating App. ‘Are You Interested?’ app is now available for download in iPhone app store.

March 2009 – SNAP Interactive Prepares for Additional Growth Through Office Move and Operational Consolidation

January 2009 – SNAP Interactive Enables Future Growth by Doubling Programming Capacity

December 2008 – Snap Interactive Makes Global Debut Through EQUITIES Magazine Feature Article

November 2008 – SNAP Exceeds 15 Million Users on Facebook® Platform

November 2008 – Snap Interactive’s Rapid Growth Subject of Feature Article on Small Cap Leader Knobias.com

October 2008 – SNAP Interactive Recaps Major Milestones to Date and Provides Operational Outlook

July 2008 – SNAP’s largest application, ‘Are You Interested’ which was launched on August 14, 2007 has over 10m installations as of July 7th, 2008, compared to over 6,000,000 installations on December 31, 2007. SNAP’s second application, ‘Meet New People’ has over 3.3m installations as compared to approximately 800,000 as of December 31, 2007.

April 2008 – SNAP Interactive, a provider of dating applications for social networks, has launched “Are You Interested” and “Flirt With Me” on MySpace.

January 2008 – SNAP Interactive’s Applications Surpass 9 Million Users on Facebook® Platform

December 2007 – eTwine Holdings, Inc. Announces Name Change to SNAP Interactive, Inc. and Symbol Change to STVI

December 2007 – SNAP Interactive’s Applications Surpass 5 Million Users on Facebook Platform

November 2007 – SNAP to Support New OpenSocial APIs

October 2007 – eTwine’s Application Surpasses 2 Million Users on Facebook(R) Platform

September 2007 – eTwine’s Facebook Application Exceeds 750,000 Users in 4 Weeks

December 2006 – IamFreeTonight.com Brings the ‘Wingman’ Concept Online

November 2006 – eTwine Holdings Announces Financing With Dutchess Private Equities for up to $10 Million

November 2006 – eTwine Holdings Launches Unique New Online Dating Website IamFreeTonight.com

October 2006 – Online Dating Company eTwine Holdings, Inc. Begins Trading Under Symbol ETWI

– SNAP Interactive Financials

SNAP Interactive news on OnlinePersonalsWatch
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OPW – June 20 – Money is nice. But the
thing that helps keep a lot of matchmakers and internet dating workers
motivated is helping people find love. What is love anyway? The question 'What does love mean?' was put to a group of 4 to 8
year-olds. Their answers were broader and deeper than you'd think:

'Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne
and they
go out and smell each other.' Karl – age 5

'Love is what's in the room
with you at Christmas if you stop opening
presents
and listen.' Bobby – age 7 (Wow!)

'Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it
everyday.' Noelle – age 7

'When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her
toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even
when his
hands got arthritis too. That's love.'  Rebecca – age 8
 
'Love is when you go out
to eat and give somebody most of your French
fries
without making them give you any of theirs.' Chrissy – age 6

'When
someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just
know that your name is safe in their mouth.' Billy – age 4
 
'Love is what makes you smile when you're tired.' Terri – age 4
 
'Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip
before
giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK.' Danny – age 7
 
 'If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who
you
hate,' Nikka – age 6 (we need a few million more Nikka's on this planet)
  
'Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone
all
day.' Mary Ann – age 4
 
'When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars
come
out of you.' (what an image) Karen – age 7
 
A four year old child whose next door neighbor was an
elderly
gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's
yard,
climbed onto his lap, and just sat there. When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy
said, 'Nothing, I just helped him cry.'

Did I make your cry? You soppy thing. You're definitely in the right profession.  😉