THEDRUM.CO.UK – Apr 13 – Match.com’s latest advertising campaign will feature unscripted filmed stories of real members on a first date. The ‘Real Stories’ campaign, by Mother, will begin to air across UK terrestrial, digital and satellite TV from April 14th.
The full article was originally published at The Drum, but is no longer available.
PR WEB – Apr 13 – Caerus AG, the owner of Dating Factory has acquired Datech, better known for its private label platform World Dating Partners. Both companies have offerings in multiple languages and dating niches. The two companies will continue to be operated separately. DatingFactory.com was established in 2009 and provides private label dating platform. DatingFactory.com operates in 15 languages, 40 niches, and has a global data base of millions. World Dating Partners, established in 2001, is a global private label dating platform available in multiple languages.
This post also appears on InternetDatingInvestments.
GREENSHEET – Apr 10 – iovation, the Device Reputation Authority protecting online businesses from fraud and abuse, will host its Fraud Force User Group Meeting in Chicago on June 5, 2012. The User Group is exclusively reserved for iovation clients. In addition to learning how to maximize iovation's fraud-fighting technology, customers will get a chance to share their fraud detection and prevention challenges with other iovation clients on the front lines against cybercrime. iovation's clients will obtain deep insight into how to get the most out of ReputationManager 360.
OPW – Apr 12 – New iDating jobs listing is live on the Internet Dating Jobs blog.
Below see a couple of this month's most interesting offers:
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From our esteemed Courtland Brooks clients:
POF.com
Senior Technical Project Manager / CA – BC, Vancouver
Global Personals USA (Webdate, Fling, WealthyMen)
Project Analyst / USA – FL, Miami Beach
BlackDivine
Art Directors
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Badoo
Director of Business Development
eHarmony
Director, Corporate Communications
FriendFinder Networks
Chief Information Officer
HowAboutWe
Head of Product Design
Match.com, Chemistry.com, People Media
Director, Midwest Advertising Sales
Spark Networks
Director, Lifecycle Marketing
To see more open positions go here.
Do you have an idating industry job offer which is not included? Please, send it to petra@courtlandbrooks.com and we will add it to the list.
OPW – Apr 12 – Funders And Founders is hosting an innovation show for Internet dating startups and funders. 50 of them, and 800 attendees. The event will be held in San Francisco, on April 18th at 7pm at The Fairmont Hotel.
I will be keynoting and on the panel of angel investors and influential reporters. Other speakers include Shayan Zadeh, CEO of Zoosk, Brian Bowman, CEO of theComplete.me, Rob Theis who currently serves on the boards of BrightRoll, HubSpot, RingCentral and Scale Computing. 50+ startups will showcase their products to early adopters, potential customers, reporters and investors. The 3 winners will pitch form the stage to a panel of angels.
WEBWIRE – Apr 11 – The next iDate Startup event held in Toronto on May 2nd is sponsored by Dating Love and Sex Tips (DLST), Carmelia Ray, SMB Master, Date Therapy, eLove and iDate. iDateStartup is a series of free local events for new dating industry startup companies and dating affiliates. You can register here.
GLOBAL POST – Apr 10 – The French have the world's highest level of tolerance towards infidelity. Unless it’s women who are cheating. According to Gleeden.com, the extramarital dating site 53% of those questioned in France said it was possible to cheat on your partner while still loving them. It was the highest rate for all countries surveyed by Gleeden. Maryse Vaillant, a celebrated French psychologist and author of the book Men, Love, Fidelity, famously said that wives should welcome their husbands' extra-marital affairs as a sign of a healthy marriage because a "pact of fidelity is not natural but cultural." "It's different to the US where cheating on your wife is seen as very bad, by the wife, the cheater and the whole community. There, people would rather get divorced and remarry, whereas in France we can imagine someone being married and having relationships at the same time", he added.
by Iva Roze Skoch
See full article at Global Post
ASIA ONLINE – Apr 10 – A survey by local dating agency Lunch Actually shows that 62% of Singaporeans polled used an online dating service, up from 58% in 2010. The rise in online dating is not surprising, considering how much time people spend on social networks, says sociologist Bussarawan Puk Teerawichitchainan. In a global poll of 10,976 users across 19 countries carried out by the BBC World Service in 2010, 30% of web users regard the Internet as a good place to find a romantic partner. Ms Lim's sites, two of innumerable online dating options available to Singaporeans, now have 80K (Eteract) and 15K (eSynchrony) users respectively. Eteract offers speed dating via IM, webcam, and online games. eSynchrony, on the other hand, matches people through a personality profile quiz.
by Benita Aw Yeong
The full article was originally published at Asia Online, but is no longer available.
April 2012
(Source: Google Play)
1. Skout
2. Badoo
3. Zoosk
4. SayHi
5. Grindr
6. eHarmony
7. Text Chat With Stranger
8. OKCupid
9. Gay Chat & Dating – Jack’d
10. Scruff
OPW – Apr 10 - Tell the world how important iDate is to you and how much you love the event. Make a video that says just that. The author of the best video will go to the next iDate for free. Here are the rules.
Video submissions will be accepted until May 7, 2012.