NEWSWIRE TODAY – Apr 4 – The 7th annual west coast Internet Dating Conference will be in Los Angeles on June 22-24, 2011. The theme for the L.A. event is new markets which include niche markets and mobile dating applications.
Three special pre-event sessions have been added to the event.
– OPW: Entrepreneurs and those starting a dating business receive a market overview
– eLove: Matchmaking business models, trends and strategy;
– CEO: Advanced strategies and tactics for senior dating industry executives
Month: April 2011
Adam Sachs: The Accidental Indophile
LIVEMINT – Apr 3 – Ignighter’s been in the news recently for its almost accidental India business plan. Three New Yorkers – Adam Sachs, Kevin Owocki and Daniel Osit, set up a group dating site in 2008 to help their fellow men skip those awkward one-on-one Friday night blind dates. Unsurprisingly, it didn't find too many fans in the US. But they noticed a dramatic spike in the number of users from India. By August, Ignighter.com had crossed a million Indian users (the number has since doubled). In February, after raising $3M Sachs was ready to go to India. Earlier this week the websitedropped its average monthly $40 charge per group and decided it was time to indefinitely be a free site. “We don’t anticipate an increase in traffic but we’ve already seen dramatic increases in engagement,” says Sachs.
Virtual Instant Marriages Now Available On SpeedDate.com
SPEEDDATE BLOG – Apr 1 – SpeedDate.com has been approved as the first ever virtual wedding officiant with its new service SpeedMarriage. The service launched on March 15, 2011 and five to ten electronic marriages are being performed each hour, with peak usage between midnight to 2 AM. SpeedDate connects online daters in real-time on quick 5 minute chat sessions, to quickly find chemistry with potential mates. Now, extremely compatible SpeedDaters can bypass the courtship phase and get married in their next 5 minutes as an added bonus. What’s next for SpeedDate? “We’ve received user feedback that our customers would like to find faster, more efficient ways of having children” says co-founder Simon Tisminezky. “We’re thinking of calling the new feature ‘SpeedBabies’, but our engineers haven’t figured out the technology yet.” By the way, there are absolutely no plans for “SpeedDivorce”.
The full article was originally published at Speeddate blog, but is no longer available.
SNAP Interactive Reports Q4 And Fiscal Year 2010 Results
MARKETWIRE – Mar 31 - SNAP Interactive, a leading social app provider with ~40M installs across its social dating apps, announced its fourth quarter and fiscal year financial results for 2010. – Revenue increased 242% to $2,791,418 in Q4 2010 compared to $816,390 in Q4 2009
– Net loss increased to $382,048 compared to a net loss of $237,555;
SNAP is pleased to report that the quarter ending March 31, 2011 will produce SNAP's highest revenue total ever and represent their eighth consecutive quarter of revenue growth.
The full article was originally published at Marketwire, but is no longer available.
Naked Speed Dating With Fastlife.ca
PRESS RELEASE – Apr 1 – FastLife.ca, the world’s largest speed-dating company, is introducing the Naked Date. The innovative new concept invites FastLife.ca’s singles to bare all and speed date in the nude. “Our busy, professional members are facing ever-mounting pressures on their time and meeting that special someone is a constant challenge. So, we decided to remove that last layer of inhibition and allow them to truly get to know their next potential mate by dating in the buff. As we figure, why waste time wondering what they’ll look like naked when you can find out right away?”, said FastLife.ca CEO Justin Parfitt. The event sold out within hours of its announcement and drove so much traffic to FastLife.ca among the dating firm’s members that it crashed the website.