01AMOUR – May 26 – Dating site AdopteUnMec.com, the French version of CheckHimOut.com where women are in full control, generated revenue of Eur 16M according to its director of marketing Thomas Pawlowski. The site has 5.7M registered users and 650K active members every month. AdopteUnMec.com is free for women and the male/female ratio is 50/50.
Month: May 2013
CEO Of Bang With Friends App Revealed
NY DAILY NEWS – May 26 – The mastermind behind the app, which helps pair Facebook friends seeking casual sex partners, is a 28-year-old Ivy League grad with a computer science degree. Colin Hodge's identity and that of co-founder Omri Mor were unveiled during Internet Week. They had remained anonymous as the popularity of their app increased. More than 1M people use the site, Hodge said, and it has put ~200,000 "couples" in touch.
by Victoria Taylor
See full article at NY Daily News
The 20 Most Useful Dating Websites
TELEGRAPH.CO.UK – May 10 - Online dating is now one of the most popular ways to meet a new partner and there are ~1400 sites in the UK alone.
- Match.com
- MySingleFriend
- eHarmony
- Friend Finder
- JDate
- Gay.com
- Christian Connection – the largest, and longest established subscriber based UK Christian dating site.
- Muddy Matches – For Single Farmers, Rural Singles, Equestrian Singles and Country Friends could be the place for you.
- Zoosk
- Telegraph Dating
- Lovestruck.com – for dates in your lunch hour.
- Parship
- Shaadi.com
- Saga Connections – for people over 50.
- Dating Vegetarian
- Dating Direct
- Flirtbox
- Love Arts – for singles who love arts
- Dating For Parents
- Green Singles
How Tinder Is Winning The Mobile Dating Wars
INC MAGAZINE – May 25 – Tinder is one of the year's fastest growing apps. CEO Sean Rad has already been a successful entrepreneur once. In 2009, he founded ad.ly, which helps brands land celebrity endorsements on social media. Rad claims that the app has led to 50M matches and 10 marriages since it launched this fall.
Q: What inspired you to start Tinder in the first place?
A: In the real world, you're either a hunter or you're being hunted. If you're a hunter, there's constant rejection. And if you're hunted, you're constantly being bombarded. On Tinder, you anonymously say if you're interested in somebody, and if that person happens to be interested in you, you can have a conversation. If they're not interested, they never know you liked them anyway, so you don't feel embarrassed.
Q: When did things really take off?
A: Around January. We had been picking up on college campuses.
Q: What was the biggest issue?
A: We never anticipated it was going to take off this fast. Our challenge was not only maintaining the current system, but building the new one at the same time.
Q: Where'd the idea for Matchmaker, the new feature, come from?
A: Our vision is to be the platform that you think about when it comes to meeting somebody new under any context, not just dating. With Matchmaker, you can create a match between any two of your Facebook friends.
Q: How are you going to make money?
A: Right now, we're prioritizing our product ambitions first. We want to charge for giving you more value, not for interacting with us in a basic way.
Q: You've had a lot of success at a young age. Any advice to other founders who are just starting out?
A: You should only start a company because you can't sleep at night until you solve a certain problem, and I think those problems need to find you. If you're starting a company for the sake of starting a company, you're going to fail.
The Cold-Hearted Truth About Women And Breakups
TECH NEWS DAILY – May 22 – Breaking up is no longer hard to do. In fact, for a growing number of women, all it takes is a text message, new research by AVG Technologies shows. 25% of women said they have or would have broken up with a partner by sending a text. And half have done so with a phone call. Women in their 40s and 50s are nearly as likely to use their phones for ending a relationship as are women half their age.
by Leslie Meredith
The full article was originally published at Tech News Daily, but is no longer available.
Tinder Evolves: New Feature Turns Users Into Matchmakers
FORBES – May 25 – Tinder wants to expand beyond its “hookup” reputation. The company introduced Matchmaker that allows users to introduce their Facebook friends to each other. Tinder has been testing Matchmaker with 100 users for a month. Such introductions aren’t limited to Tinder users. People can use Matchmaker to connect any of their Facebook friends. Those who don’t have Tinder receive a Facebook message prompting them to download the app and get chatting with their match. 50M matches have been made over the service since its release last September, and 4.7 billion profiles have been rated. That’s up from 35M and 3.5 billion six weeks ago.
Zoosk Reports Record Revenue In Q1 2013
MARKETWIRED – May 22 – Zoosk Q1 revenue exceeded $40M. Zooks's website saw a 116% increase in monthly total unique visitors YOY according to comScore. For its mobile products, the number of monthly active users increased ~200% year-over-year. Zoosk attributes this growth to its approach to matchmaking and a strategic focus on mobile.
The full article was originally published at Marketwired, but is no longer available.
MeetMe Q1 Financial Results
MEETME CORP – May 9 – Revenue was $7.8M, compared to $10.4M in the Q1 of 2012. Mobile revenue on the MeetMe Platform grew 150% to $1.9M in Q1 2013, up from $0.8M in the first quarter of 2012. Total Registered Users surpassed 100M during the quarter, including 8M mobile registered users. Adjusted EBITDA was a loss of $1.7M, or $0.04 per share, compared to $1M in Q1 2012.
This post also appears on SocialNetworkingWatch.
Prague Puts Matchmaking Into Motion
REUTERS – May 22 – Prague transport company Ropid wants to set aside carriages on some or all of its metro trains for singles seeking a soul mate, a service that could be launched by the end of this year. The company will start polling passengers to determine whether they would be interested.