OPW – Sep 30 – …and soaked through, muddy and tested to the limit. The Zoosk team tried a Tough Mudder event. Tough Mudder's are 10-12 mile assault courses designed by the British Special Forces. The whole team finished. Well done!
Month: September 2012
GuySpy: Facebook Is Tad Homophobic
QUEERTY – Sep 28 – GuySpy, the location-based gay dating app, has run into problems with Facebook’s Community Standards, which allegedly prohibit pornography and explicit nudity. But it seems that those standards don’t apply for everyone. Facebook has a strict policy against the sharing of pornographic content and imposes limitations on the display of nudity. GuySpy posted this pic to its page only to see it taken down within hours by Facebook. GuySpy found that their pic was nothing compared to the page “Hot boy sexy ladies of Dhaka”. This site has been up for five months. Perhaps, facebook is just a tad homophobic and sexist to boot! Exploiting the female body is just fine, but showing a beautiful man almost completely nude is a disgrace.
OKCupid CEO Shares The Social Media Strategy
BUSINESS INSIDER – Sep 27 – OkCupid has become incredibly popular in recent years. The tipping point was in 2009, when a strong social media strategy helped it gain traction, says CEO and Co-Founder Sam Yagan. One of the best ways to grow a business is to expand the possible user base. OkCupid tries to reach a broad audience with its blog by choosing interesting topics and great graphs that provide information as well as entertainment. OkCupid only has 18,083 Twitter followers and 12,860 Facebook page likes, which is nothing compared to how many people comment on its blog. Social media is just one piece of the puzzle. “There’s a rule of thumb in marketing that you have to have seven ad impressions before someone actually takes an action," says Yagan. "It’s reading an article on Facebook; it’s hearing the story on the news; it’s hearing from one of your friends who’s using OkCupid."
HowAboutWe Provides Hand-Picked Date Ideas For Couples
TECH CRUNCH – Sep 27 – Helping couples to stay connected and in love is what HowAboutWe is all about. Each month, couples receive a DateBook with one-of-a-kind dates specifically curated for its users. For October, the company provides different dates, from a hike in Harriman State Park with pickup in New York to a private 3-course brunch at Kin Shop with Top Chef Harold Dieterle. After having subscribed for $80 a month, couples can fo on free dates, such as a Korean food cooking class. HowAboutWe has raised $18.5M so far. The service is currently available in New York City, with plans to expand in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, Washington DC and more in 2013.
Dating Site Charges $100,000 For Membership
PR WEB – Sep 27 – SecretDiamondClub.com claims to effectively weeds out all those fake millionaires crowding the cheap ‘millionaire’ dating sites. Whereas existing millionaire dating sites charge $20-$30 a month, allowing any man to pose as a millionaire, Secret Diamond Club charges $10-100K. "If you don’t have $10K to $100K to sign-up, you’d better go to one of those sugar daddy sites where you can pretend to be worth zillions", says CEO and founder Gus Terkelsen.
Cupid Launches LoveAgain, 50+ Dating Site In US
THE NEXT WEB – Sep 27 – Cupid is expanding its portfolio in the US with the launch of mature dating site LoveAgain along with a matching Facebook app. LoveAgain is the US version of Cupid’s existing UK site for the over 40s, MatureDatingUK. Cupid has a close eye on the American territories of course and acquisition is not off the agenda as the firm expands. "If we find the right priced acquisition in the US we could accelerate our growth", says CEO Bill Dobbie.
Coffee Meets Bagel Lands $600K From Lightbank, Match.com Co-Founder
TECH CRUNCH – Sep 26 - Coffee Meets Bagel is a dating site that provides one match per day, every day at noon. The startup is now announcing $600K funding, led by Lightbank and including Match.com co-founder Peng T. Ong. It will be used to help Coffee Meets Bagel expand to San Francisco, where the startup recently moved its offices. The site is growing 50% month-over-month, setting up ~100K introductions which have resulted in 6K actual direct connections. 70% of users actively checking the service for matches every day. Coffee Meets Bagel is free, but it also uses a freemium model based around virtual credits to unlock the identity of mutual friends users share on Facebook.
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Match.com Partners With ITV For Dating Show Girlfri3nds
THE DRUM – Sep 25 – match.com will be the partner for new ITV2 show Girlfri3nds, which follows three women as they search for love. The deal includes broadcast and online sponsorship of the show by match.com, as well as digital and social media activity. Hosted by Emma Willis, the show will begin with an audition with a hundred men from all over the country ‘pitching’ themselves to the three women. During each episode match.com’s resident relationship expert, Kate Taylor, will be tweeting dating advice.
Asia Pacific iDate Is Nov 8-9, 2012 In Sydney
WEBWIRE - iDate Down Under is taking place in Australia In November 8-9,
2012. The top CEOs and affiliates in the online dating, mobile dating
and matchmaking business from the Asia/Pacific Region are expected in
attendance.
Speakers include:
- Oasis Interactive
- Red Hot Pie
- Flitter
- Dating Factory
- PinkSofa
- Unoduo
- …and others.