Month: October 2012

GuySpy – Fact Sheet

Posted on October 23, 2012

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GuySpy is the most sophisticated cross-platform, all male location-based mobile social networking app for iPhone, Android, web and mobile web. Users who download the free mobile gay dating app are able to find, meet and chat with men seeking men, faster, easier and with more features than any other gay dating app.

GuySpy uses location-based services, such as GPS, to connect gay, bi and curious users for free live gay chat – members can find gay men by location, view profiles and photos, upload and listen to voice greetings, send and receive image files, and text chat – all for free! To make it even easier to chat with gay guys in their area, members have the option of viewing the entire community or using search filters to find only the guys that meet their criteria.

  • Debuted its iPhone app in October 2010
  • Available for iPhone, Android, Mobile Web & Web
  • Has 500k registered users currently
  • Growing at an average of 3k+/day
  • Owned by Stark Mobile Technologies LLC
  • Supports 10 languages including English, Spanish, Portuguese, simplified Chinese, Italian, German, French, Korean, Thai and Arabic
  • All users can upload and receive standard and HD video messages
  • Our GPS uses real mapping in conjunction with the grid of guys, so you can really see how close your next date could be.
  • Premium features available include:
    – online favorite notifications
    – unlimited cruise photos
    – unlimited profile views
  • Key people: Morris Chapdelaine (Executive Editor of GuySpy), Jeff Prete (General Manager of Stark Mobile Technologies LLC)
  • Headquarters: Vancouver, Canada
  • Website: http://www.guyspy.com
  • Blog: http://www.guyspy.com/blog/

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Life As An OkCupid Moderator

Posted on October 22, 2012

Okcupid logo aktualniHUFFINGTON POST – Oct 22 - Christopher Cantwell
never asked to become a moderator of online dating site OkCupid. Many
OkCupid moderators are pulled from the site’s userbase and just six
months after signing up for the singles site. They review posts flagged
by OkCupid users and are tasked with marking the profiles “deleted,”
“left alone” or “can’t tell.” Moderators can see comments from other
moderators and how they ruled on an issue, but not who those moderators
are or what ultimately happened to each of the posts in question.

Q: What did you have to do to become qualified to be a moderator?
A: Absolutely nothing.  They notified me that I had been made a moderator.

Q: What kinds of things do you see getting flagged?
A: Users can flag a profile and then the
profile gets put into what’s basically a queue for the moderators to go
through. And most of it is kind of frivolous.

Q: It’s remarkable that people have access to private messages, in some cases, and get to weigh in on them.
A: Yes, it is.

Q: What have you learned about people since being a moderator on OkCupid?
A: I’ve learned that people are nitpicking and if they see something they don’t like, they’ll flag it for no good reason.

Q: What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen during your time as a moderator?
A: I’ve seen some nude photos, but I’m no stranger to that, and I’ve seen scammers.

Q: What would you do when you came across something illegal?
A: In the case of child porn, we would contact the FBI.

by Bianca Bosker
See full article at Huffington Post

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Tawkify – Offline Internet Dating, Kind Of

Posted on October 22, 2012

Tawkify kenneth shawTHE SOCIABLE – Oct 21 – Tawkify pitches itself as online dating with a difference. There are no advanced computer algorithms that pair users together based on interests. Users sign-up to Tawkify, fill in some basic profile information and Tawkify’s small team of matchmakers get to work. Potential matches are brought together in a 10 minute phone conversation initiated by Tawkify – without seeing a profile image of each other. Depending on the success of that short conversation, users can decide to schedule a date (somewhat blind) or request a rematch.

by Darren McCarra
See full article at The Sociable

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There Is More Money To Be Made In The Market For True Love

Posted on October 22, 2012

Alex mehr venture beat postVENTURE BEAT – Oct 21 – This is a guest post by entrepreneur Alex Mehr (Zoosk). People’s relationship statuses change, which makes it difficult to keep customers long-term. Zoosk saw an opportunity to overcome the challenge of customer retention, and created a service for people in relationships. Companies must now offer different tools to users at every stage of their romantic journey. Several new services have popped up that offer private social networking for couples. "By expanding our services beyond dating, we’ve been able to create more brand loyalty and have also built stronger relationships with our users", said Alex Mehr.

by Alex Mehr
See full  article at Venture Beat

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LTR.com And eRomance For Sale

Posted on October 22, 2012

Forsale pictureOPW – Oct 21 - David Siegel has been trying for years to raise enough money to start LTR.com, his project for long-term online dating. Unfortunately, he has been unsuccessful in raising money and is now interested in selling the domain and associated logo. He also has the associated domain LTR.co, which would be included, and a few other assets. He would welcome a deal where he can participate in building a new business in this space, and he is also willing to just sell the domain outright ($80K or best offer). David is willing to work with a buyer on terms and payment schedule. Please contact David directly if you are interested.

eRomance.com dating site is also for sale. The site has been online since 2006 and receives ~20-25k monthly unique visitors. The asking price is $125K. eromance.net, eromance.co.uk, eromance.mobi and e-romance.com are included. For additional information please contact Stephen May.

Update: eRomance has been sold.

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MeetMe Photoboard, Coming To A Bar Near You

Posted on October 22, 2012

Meetme photoboardOPW – Oct 19 – MeetMe announced the launch of a new feature that has one foot in your smart phone, and the other foot in 560 bars around the country. The new Photoboard feature in MeetMe allows users to see freshly uploaded pictures from people nearby. A great way to visualize the community around you. Thanks to a deal with Zoom Media & Marketing, they're also pushing these images out into 560 digital screens in bars around the USA. This iphone/android app feature to real world cross-over is a first. I'm looking forward to observing the user behavior around it. – Mark Brooks (Full Disclosure: Meetme is a client of Courtland Brooks)

Here's coverage on CNET and the press
release.

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This post also appears on SocialNetworkingWatch.

Women Turn Old At 28

Posted on October 22, 2012
ZEENEWS – Oct 19 –  Women get old at 28 when careers become more important than their sex lives, a new survey from SeekingArrangement.com has found. 37% of women and 39% of men nominated 28 as the key age when you are no longer young. 10 signs you are truly grown up:
  • Your career is more important than your sex life.
  • You switch from listening to Radio 1 to Radio 2.
  • You want to buy a property rather than rent.
  • You have no idea what is number 1 in the charts.
  • You start looking for a husband or wife rather a boyfriend or girlfriend.
  • You prefer Strictly Come Dancing to X Factor.
  • You would rather go on holiday with a person you are in a relationship with than a group of friends.
  • You would rather cook for yourself than rely on a ready meal or takeaway.
  • You would rather live on your own than share a flat or house.
  • You stop going to nightclubs.

See full article at Zeenews India

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How Cruise Ship Singer Found Love At AnastasiaDate.com

Posted on October 22, 2012

Anastasiadate logoMIRROR.CO.UK – Oct 9 – Singer Wayne Denton tried AnastasiaDate.com, a Ukrainian online dating site, and found himself a new wife almost half his age. Wayne had to pay to send her a message and to read emails she sent him. If he wanted to see any pictures she sent, he had to pay for them as well. Wayne had a niggling doubt that it could all be a scam. The agency offered a video date service. “It cost £30 for 10 minutes and because she didn’t speak any English we had to use a translator. "The 10 minutes turned into 40 minutes, which was expensive." After two months and £500 spent talking to Iuliia online, Wayne decided to meet her and flew to her home city of Mariupol in October 2010. At the end of his second visit he proposed and Iuliia accepted.

by Natalie Lisbona
See full article at Mirror.co.uk

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POF – Fact Sheet

Posted on October 20, 2012

Pof.com logo use january 2012POF.com is the world’s largest free dating site, popular primarily in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, Brazil and the United States. It was created by its founder and CEO Markus Frind.

POF is recognized for pioneering the concept of free online dating, and remains an industry leader as membership continues to grow exponentially and the business diversifies.

The site has been translated into French, Spanish, German and Portuguese, and is one of the top 100 internet start-ups of all time.

  • Founded in 2003
  • Owned by Markus Frind
  • Headquarters: Vancouver, CA
  • Key People: Markus Frind (CEO & Founder), Kate Bilenki (COO)
  • Over 45M members
  • 40k new signups/day
  • 20M messages sent per day
  • 1.26M average daily visits per month
  • POF is Nr. 1 dating site in Canada, USA, UK and Brazil, it’s also available in Australia, Spain, Germany, France
  • Employees: 60+
  • Website: http://www.pof.com

History:

  • 2003 – site founded by Markus Frind
  • 2004 – PlentyofFish became a full-time business for Frind
  • 2006 (August) – POF surpassed 10M members, 300k people were logging on to the service every day
  • 2008 – Markus began hiring other employees at his new Vancouver headquarters – he ran the site independently before
  • 2009 – POF enjoyed a 77-per-cent growth in visits from December, 2007,
    through December, 2008. About 900k people now log in daily
  • 2009 (March) – POF added a pay option for serious daters (while it is
    still free to use, POF offers premium services as part of their
    upgraded membership, such as seeing the date and time a user viewed your
    profile and allowing you to see whether a user read and/or deleted your
    message.)
  • 2009 – POF placed No. 6 among all dating
    sites in June 2009, with 2.2 million viewers, nearly double the previous
    year
  • 2010 – POF launched mobile apps for iPhone and Android. Over 40% of POF’s log-ins come from mobile devices now (2012)
  • 2010 (September) – POF launched eVow
  • 2011 (August) – POF was ranked Nr. 1 dating site worldwide (source: Hitwise)

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Dating Factory – Fact Sheet

Posted on October 18, 2012

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Dating Factory is a Swiss based white label dating provider offering a complete dating solution – from promoting other sites on the platform to creating a mainstream or niche dating site of your own and having other affiliates promote it for you.

  • Founded in 2009
  • Owned by Caerus AG
  • Headquarters: Zug, Switzerland
  • Offices in London, UK; Paris, France; Riccione, Italy; Barcelona, Spain, Atlanta, USA
  • Key People: Tanya Fathers (CEO & Founder), Lisa Moskotova (COO & Co-founder), George Carter (CFO), Moreno Aguiari (VP of Sales)
  • Available in 22 languages (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, Greek, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Lithuanian, Serbian, Turkish, Japanese)
  • Supports 60 niches
  • Over 12k partners worldwide
  • Employees: ~100
  • Website: http://www.datingfactory.com

History:

  • September 2013
    – Dating Factory is offering new Jewish niche on their platform
  • July 2013
    – Dating Factory is adding Hungarian language and support to their system. Dating Factory now operates in 22 languages.
  • May 2013
    – Dating Factory will integrate the NATS (Next-Generation Affiliate Cracking) backend management system into its platform
  • March 2013
    – Dating Factory has introduced the Indian dating niche market to its white label dating platform
  • November 2012
    – Dating Factory has acquired German White Label Dating platform – CrossDating.com
  • October 2012
    – DatingFactory.com has signed a deal with Scamalytics to provide advanced anti-scammer protection in addition to current protection systems
  • September 2012
    – Dating Factory won the YNOT Award for Best Dating Technology
  • July 2012
    – Dating Factory is available in Turkish language
  • June 2012
    – Dating Factory supports Slovak language
  • May 2012
    – Dating Factory launched mobile
  • April 2012
    – Dating Factory acquired World Dating Partners
  • March 2012
    – Dating Factory officialy lauched in the USA
    – Norwegian version of the site launched
  • May 2011
    – DatingFactory.jp launches: Japan’s first white label dating platform
  • January 2011
    – Dating Factory supports Greek language
  • September 2010
    – Dating Factory Partners with World Dating Partners
  • July 2010
    – Dating Factory b2b platform is available in French
  • May 2010
    – New HIV Positive niche launches
  • April 2010
    – Dating Factory Affiliate network launches
    – Casual niche launches
  • February 2010
    – Caerus AG Announces the Appointment of Lisa Moskotova (Steshenko) as COO of http://www.DatingFactory.com
    – Easydate (Cupid Plc) partners with Dating Factory to address the German, French Spanish and Italian speaking markets using Dating Factory’s white label dating platform
    – Czech and Swedish languages launched
  • January 2010
    – Lithuanian language launched
  • September 2009
    – Dating Factory Launches Multi-Lingual and Multi-Niche White Label Dating Platform at iDate
    – Caerus AG announces the appointment of Tanya Fathers as CEO of Dating Factory

Partners:

  • LesbianDating.com
  • Thomas Voullemier – DatingDisabled.net
  • David Miller – DisabilityMatch.co.uk
  • Griffin Technologies CH – Aminfi.com
  • Bernd Muller – Click4aDate.com
  • Martin Dagger – Fitnessdateclub.com

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