GOOD MORNING AMERICA – Dec 4 - HiDine.com is a dating site that allows women to post their favorite restaurants. Men then can propose a date in those restaurants and pick up the check. Male users pay $5 per date.
Month: December 2013
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World Singles Networks Helps Orphans
GLOBE NEWSWIRE – Dec 4 – World Singles Networks, an international online matchmaking services, launches its second 'iCare' Initiative to raise funds for Orphans In Need. WSN's site IslamicMarriage.com will spotlight to its many members the wonderful work that Orphans In Need does internationally.
Matchmaker Christie Nightingale
FORBES – Dec 4 – Christie Nightingale, head of Premier Match, is among the top tier modern day matchmakers. Premier Match has offices in New York, Philadelphia and Washington D.C., but has partnerships with other matchmakers in California and London’s Berkeley International. Clients pay $10K – $15K and wider searches can cost as much as $50K for a yearlong contract. In 2012 the company generated $1M in revenue.
by Karsten Strauss
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mDating App Tingle.com Is For Sale
OPW – Dec 3 – Tingle comes with a great domain and a decent seed userbase. Its a 'leading-edge mobile-only realtime dating app' featuring text/voice, per-message/per-call billing, prepaid credit-based business model. It was soft-launched Feb 2012 to North America and recently made available globally and serves 100K DAU.
UPDATE (Dec 16, 2014): Tingle is no longer for sale.
Courtland Brooks Revealed
COURTLAND BROOKS – Dec 3 – Online Personals Watch is powered by Courtland Brooks, which is a niche consultancy for iDating companies. We JUST work for iDating companies, and occasionally for best-in-class companies that want to talk to them. We do Strategy, PR and business development. Who are we? Over the years I’ve recruited great people from iDate. Now I’m focused on recruiting senior advisors. Here’s the team.
Snap Interactive Partners With Match.com
PR NEWSWIRE – Dec 3 – Snap Interactive, a social dating developer and owner of AYI.com, partners with Match.com. The partnership will feature various integrations of Match.com's dating properties into AYI.com. The partnership has a three month term, which will begin when the integrations are live and have driven subscriptions to Match.com.
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One Month Left To Vote For 2014 iDate Awards
WEBWIRE – Dec 3 – Voting is online and closes on January 3, 2014. Industry professionals and the general public are encouraged to vote. The winners will be announced during iDate in Las Vegas.
eHarmony Officially Rolls Out Premium Matchmaking Service eH+
BUSINESS WIRE – Dec 2 – eHarmony has launched its new matchmaking service eH+ which is a combination of online dating with an experienced matchmaker who will work personally with the clients. eH+ is priced at $5K a year. The service launched in Beta at the beginning of November and, according to the company, exceeded the expectations.
The Future Of Relationships
FAST COMPANY – Dec 3 - Is technology killing romance or just making it more efficient? Terry Young of the trend-spotting shop Sparks & Honey talked about the future of jobs, and before that, the future of health care. He offers up some intriguing ideas about relationships in 2025.
- Microbial Matchmaking
- Quantified Relationship – "The use of wearable technologies bleeding over into the way we interact with each other," says Young.
- Formula-One Flirting – Location-based services like Vine, Snapchat, and Grindr will proliferate.
- Siri As Sex Surrogate – Sentient artificially intelligent entities could start to compete for our affections. Men in Japan already have virtual girlfriends.
- Long Distance Foreplay - Technology allowing us to stimulate each other remotely will be normal.
- Porn-Programmed Minds - Pornography had distorted the way men think about sex. That could lead to backlash or detox services that wash our minds of skin-on-skin imagery.
- Six-Second Break-ups
- Revenge Analytics - mining material to get back at exes will be easy going forward.
- Artisanal Dildos - We'll be able to create replicas of our partners, or shape mementos of relationships that have ended.
- Love Impact Metrics – We'll have services indexing relationship performance, an analysis of what went right, and what you need to optimize next time.