WASHINGTON POST – Aug 25 –
Month: August 2016
Happy Couple – A Dating App For Couples
BRAVOTV – Aug 25 – Happy Couple app is designed to strengthen existing bonds between people already in established relationships. After entering basic info about their relationship, every day couples are asked five questions in six different categories – communication, emotion, sex, responsibility, recreation and information. When there is a mismatch in the answers, it's a good opening for discussion.
Ashley Madison Told To Delete Accounts
AAP – Aug 23 – Avid Life Media (now RubyLife.com), AshleyMadison's parent company, has agreed to court-enforceable improvements in handling personal information. In the first ever joint Australian and Canadian privacy investigation, the commissioners investigated ALM's retention of personal info after profiles were deactivated. The report made a series of recommendations, all of which ALM has agreed to implement.
Tinder To Back Australian “Bachelor Of The Year Competition”
ADNEWS.COM.AU – Aug 23 – Bauer Media Group and Tinder have struck a match over its Cosmopolitan's Bachelor of the Year competition, an event which previously ran in Cleo magazine before Bauer axed it early this year. This marks Tinder's first brand foray in the Australian market. From Aug 28 to Oct 5, guys can put themselves forward by adding #TinderForCosmoBachelorOfTheYear to their Tinder profiles, and this will automatically put them in the running. Tinder will be featured across Cosmopolitan's platforms including print, digital, social and events and backed by a national PR campaign.
AsianD8 Joins Scamalytics
PRESS RELEASE – Aug 23 – AsianD8 is the latest member to join Scamalytics, the security company that identifies scammers in real time. AsianD8.com is an Asian niche dating site with ~20k active users. Active for the past 10 years, the company also runs 200 singles events every year.
Scam Survivors CEO To Speak At iDate London
WEBWIRE – Aug 23 – Wayne May, CEO from ScamSurvivors will speak on a panel covering how dating businesses fight fraud. Created in 2012, ScamSurvivors is a voluntary community that offers free help and advice regarding Internet fraud. The European iDate (Internet Dating Conference) is taking place this September. You can register here. OPW readers get 50 GBP off.
New Bay Area Matchmaker Targets Wealthy Single Men
by Paul Liberatore
See full article at Mercury News
Mark Brooks: The traditional matchmaking industry is healthy and growing. It's a very different business and discipline however. Dating sites should do more lead-gen for matchmakers. It pays. Email me at mark@courtlandbrooks.com for a connection with Instinct Marketing, the USA's lead-gen hub for matchmakers.
Snap Interactive To Merge With Paltalk
MARKETWIRED – Aug 11 – Chat app Paltalk would merge into a newly formed wholly owned subsidiary of SNAP. Paltalk's stockholders would own a majority of SNAP's outstanding common stock on a fully-diluted basis. The purpose of this merger is to enlarge SNAP's product portfolio.
See full article at Marketwired
NudistFriends Is Tinder For Naked People
THE SUN.CO.UK – Aug 22 – NudistFriends.com is like Tinder for nudists and naturists to look for friendships, relationships, and resources concerning the nudist lifestyle. The site claims 780K users.
Professionals Are Using LinkedIn To Hook Up
NYPOST – Aug 22 – "If sharing career interests or finding a significant other who is successful professionally is important to you, it is an amazing resource," says Roy Cohen, a career counselor, executive coach and author of "The Wall Street Professional's Survival Guide." "But that's not what LinkedIn is for", says April Masini, an etiquette and relationship expert. You could be hitting on someone who isn't available, warns dating and relationship coach John Keegan.