October 2015 – Page 5 – Online Personals Watch

Whitney Wolfe Explains Bumble App Concept

Posted on October 13, 2015

BBC NEWS – Oct 12 – Whitney Wolfe, a co-founder of dating app Tinder, says she wants her new company to disrupt the sector, and cut back on the amount of online harassment directed towards women. She says the restrictions in the app which block men from driving the conversations are pushing social change.The word feminism has been co-opted and contorted, she says, but "what it really means is equality between men and women". When women make the first move, she says, men are often flattered and behave much more politely. Bumble isn't the only female-friendly app. Siren, a dating platform made by women, allows women to control their visibility, so they can block their profile from other users.

by Regan Morris
See full article at BBC News

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Muslim Tinder: Swipe Right For ‘Halal’ Love

Posted on October 13, 2015

INDIA.COM – Oct 13 – Minder, the Muslim twin of Tinder, launched this February – along with Salaam Swipe and Crescent – and competing with the already established MuzMatch. All four dating apps are very similar to Tinder, where users can see a few photos, a brief profile, and can swipe right if they are interested. If the other party also likes what they see, a chat feature will be enabled. On a given scale, users can choose how religious they are – moderate, conservative, or not religious – as well as if they wear a hijab or keep a beard.

by Nadia Kadri
See full article at India.com

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Facebook Suggests Users Friend Dating Site Matches

Posted on October 12, 2015

MOTHERBOARD – Oct 12 -The issue has been coming up with alarming frequency for users of Tinder and OkCupid in recent months. Emilio Ferrara, a data science and machine learning professor at Indiana University who studies social networks said the most obvious answer would be that these apps are collecting and sharing your information. Tinder and OkCupid both denied they share user info. Brian Hamachek, a software engineer who has reversed engineered Tinder's API and is very familiar with Facebook's API said there is no reason to believe those two sites are comparing your data. He believes the Tinder and Facebook overlap is most likely a side effect of similar algorithms working to connect people.

by Kari Paul
See full article at Motherboard

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Tinder Sparks Legal Battle In Toronto

Posted on October 12, 2015

GLOBE AND MAIL – Oct 11 – Lawyers for Extreme Venture Partners Fund and three of its founders, Ravinder Sharma, Imran Bashir and Kenneth Teslia, filed a claim demanding more than $200M in damages and alleging that two former business partners, Amar Varma and Sundeep Madra, conspired with a Silicon Valley-based friend and former Facebook vice-president Chamath Palihapitiya to hide the interest in Tinder and buy it out from under them.

by Jeff Gray
See full article at The Globe and Mail

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Internet Dating Jobs Listing Update – October 2015

Posted on October 12, 2015

OPW – Oct 11 - The new Internet dating 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:

Global Personals USA (Webdate, Fling, WealthyMen, Crush.com)
Email Marketing Specialist

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eDarling.de (descriptions in German)
Director TV Marketing

eHarmony
Vice President, Business Development (Elevated Careers)

Grindr / Blendr
Art Director

Lovoo
Director of Sales & Partnerships @ReachHero

Match.com, Chemistry.com, People Media
Vice President, Brand Solutions (The Match Group)

Spark Networks
Director of Human Resources

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.

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Drug Dealers Using Tinder And Instagram To Sell

Posted on October 12, 2015

LIVERPOOL ECHO REPORTER – Oct 11 – Police have admitted that social media is now playing an "active role" in drugs supply across Europe. A force spokesman said: “Enforcement agencies are aware of the development of technology to assist drug dealers with their networks, but this is not something limited to the UK and is a European-wide issue. "A study by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction found that social media was found to play an active role in drugs markets and smartphone apps were also being used in drugs supply."

See full article at The Mirror

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Suited, A Made-in-Windsor Dating App

Posted on October 11, 2015

WINDSOR STAR – Oct – 9 – A University of Windsor student is out to give Tinder and Plenty of Fish a run for their money launching an app that matches users based on common interests. Suited gives users a menu of more than 100 different hobbies and interests they can check off to build their profile — ranging from academic disciplines to sports and all kinds of music. Users can then view potential matches in their area, if both users check off the box to agree they're suited, they can start sending messages and eventually call each other using the in-app call feature.

by Beatrice Fantoni
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Hookup Apps Adding PrEP As New Filter Option

Posted on October 11, 2015

NEW NOW NEXT – Oct 9 – Marchant, co-founder and chief product officer of Scruff, revealed the app's next update will allow users to filter their searches by safer-sex practices, including condoms and PrEP. And while Scruff is the first to plug PrEP into its app, Grindr has partnered with Gilead on studies and education awareness, and the app Mister says it is adding hashtag functionality that will allow users to search for profiles with #prep.

by Dan Avery
See full article at New Now Next

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Tinder CEO Sean Rad: From Boss, Booted, And Back

Posted on October 10, 2015

FORBES – Oct 9 – Following his demotion by IAC, Rad continued to focus on Tinder's success, by supporting the new CEO, saying,"I saw my role as making sure that person succeeds." Tinder is now up to 10 billion matches (last year the number was 3 billion) with Rad at the helm once again. "We're getting smarter at putting the right people in front of you. There is a higher chance you’ll like them and that's driving the number of matches users get and the quality of matches. We see more matches per user, and longer and deeper conversations. Higher quality connection are getting formed." He notes the success of the new Super Like feature, "users have sent over more than 20M Super Likes. Users are 3x more likely to get a match, and conversations are 70% longer when started from a Super Like."

by Steven Bertoni
See full article at Forbes

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NHS Uses Tinder To Stop Smoking

Posted on October 10, 2015

MIRROR – Oct 9 – A woman searching for love on Tinder discovered she had fallen victim to a clever stop-smoking campaign by Joe Daniels – director of marketing firm Croak!. After visiting the profile of 'Joe' – a seemingly-charming chap with a killer smile, designer stubble and dreamy eyes – she noticed he turned 'uglier and uglier' in each of his pictures. Accompanying the final picture of 'Joe' – now missing a tooth and looking rather worse for wear – read the words: "There's no smoking without fire" with a link to the NHS Smokefree website. Daniels noted that "A lot of young people don’t really pay attention to traditional marketing approaches."

by Todd Fitzgerald
See full article at Mirror

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