NBC MIAMI – June 13 – He's in his 40s, he's a father of two and he's been married for over a decade. That's according to a new survey conducted by AshleyMadison.com. He is looking for is a bit of a playground,” Ashley Madison CEO Noel Bidderman said. According to Ashley Madison, the largest percentage of cheating husbands work in the IT/engineering field, followed by men who work in the financial industry, education, doctors, and lawyers. The site also polled ~3K married women to find the typical cheating wife is in her 30s, married for five years or less, and has a child.
Month: June 2012
Privacy On OkCupid
BOSTINNO – June 13 – OkCupid is famous for making the most of its users’ data, whether to analyze on its OkTrends blog or to make money. OkCupid used nine different tracking companies and ad networks to obtain information about its visitors. These trackers aren’t a part of OkCupid: they’re independent third parties mining user data like clicks, ad views, pages visited, and time spent viewing a particular profile. Even if you delete information from your profile or account, OkCupid states that “we may keep such information archived indefinitely.” After digging into OkCupid’s Privacy Policy, we learned that they say that “third parties” and “service providers” can access members’ personal information in order to “direct and display specific advertisements” to them. Match.com, IAC, and all of IAC’s properties may now access all of OkCupid’s user information.
Ad For Manhunt.net Escapes Ban In UK
CAMPAIGNLIVE – June 13 – An outdoor ad for manhunt.net that features two topless men about to kiss has escaped censure by the advertising watchdog, despite a flurry of complaints that it was overtly sexual. In its ruling, the ASA said it had noted that Online Buddies and Primesight had given the poster's location careful consideration, so as to avoid schools and businesses that provided children-based services. The ASA ruled the ad was "sexually suggestive", rather than overtly sexual, and concluded the ad was not socially irresponsible and the ad could continue to run.
by John Reynolds
See full article at CampaignLive
Skout Suspends Service For Teens Amid Rape Allegations
LA TIMES – June 12 – Skout has temporarily shut down its services for teens amid a series of rape allegations involving its underage users. "Until we can design better protections, we are temporarily shutting down the under-18 community," founder Christian Wiklund wrote. In the last couple of weeks, three men ranging in age from 21 to 37 have been accused of posing as teenagers on the app's teen forum and allegedly luring boys and girls ages 12 to 15 to sexually assault them, according to a New York Times report. The men, all currently facing criminal charges, allegedly used Skout to contact minors.
Clique: New Social Dating Site
DOWSER – June 12 – A recently-launched dating site Clique is using social networks to match singles living in New York City. Users can look at the profile of a friend they trust, and see who that friend suggests for them. If they're not single, they can be on the site as a wingman to help their friends get matched.
by Rachel Singer
The full article was originally published at Dowser, but is no longer available.
How To Sell Your Dating Site
OPW – June 13 – If you'd like to sell your dating site, you should…
1. Send me a listing and I'll run a post on Online Personals Watch. Caveat: I need your cash price and it must be compelling to be listed. We only list the more compelling deals.
2. Attend iDate and go to the Buyers and Sellers gathering.
3. Email me directly. I have clients who are interested in buying dating sites and have budgets from the hundreds of $k to $20 million.
Internet Dating Jobs Listing Update – June 2012
OPW – June 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 Product Manager
Global Personals USA (Webdate, Fling, WealthyMen)
Sr. PHP Developer (LAMP)
BlackDivine
Art Directors
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be2 / C-Date
Head of Intl. Sales & Marketing
eHarmony
Vice President, Acquisition Marketing
Gaydar
Chief Marketing Officer
Grindr/Blendr
Director Technical Operations
Match.com, Chemistry.com, People Media
Creative Director
SpeedDate
Director of Product
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.
Online Personals Watch Is 8 Years Old
OPW – June 11 – Eight years ago I started Online Personals Watch. We've now run 6,413 posts and have 7,661 comments on the site, and have spawned a few offshoot blogs (see right bar).
I was working at FriendFinder in 2003, and friends kept referring me GREAT articles covering the internet dating industry. But I wasn't making the time to read them. I looked around for a blog that was summarizing the idating industry news and couldn't find one. So I started OPW.
This is an illumination blog. We review and summarize the news daily and aim to condense three hours of reading to three minutes, for you. We interview the rock stars and innovators in the industry, and serve executives and marketeers with the top news bites and knowledge, so you can make better decisions, serve users better, and make more money.
OKCupid’s Founder Digs Into Data On Daters
INTERNET RETAILER – June 10 – Observers can tell a lot about a person from their online dating profile, Sam Yagan, co-founder and CEO of OKCupid told attendees this week at the Internet Retailer 2012 Conference and Exhibition. “Our brand was built on our data,” Yagan said. OKCupid has demographic, psychographic, lifestyle and consumption data. That’s why a large, unnamed retailer contacted OKCupid to try and learn more about its customers, Yagan said. Retailers can use OKCupid’s model to determine what a shopper wants, not, however, by what she says she wants, but by her actions. Older women, he said, are more positive and have more self-confidence. They also enjoy sex more and are interested in casual sex more than younger women. Women who like the taste of beer are more willing to have sex on the first date.
by Katie Deatsch
See full article at Internet Retailer
CheckHimOut.com Eliminates Online Harassment
WEBWIRE – June 8 – CheckHimOut.com is a new dating site that empowers women to make all the decisions on which men they’re interested in and prevents them from being inundated with messages and emails from unwanted suitors.