OPW – Aug 27 – We're cleaning up this page, where we list most of the dating sites we've ever run news on since we started Online Personals Watch in 2004. It's a great resource for quickly referencing all the top news on a particular Internet dating site or app. Anyway, we figured it would be nice to sort the Internet dating services by color coding them by their size. But we're not sure where to draw the line. Here's what we've got right now.
Key
Green – big dating services with more than a million registrations a year.
Amber – medium-sized dating services with 100k to 1 million reg a year.
Red – small dating services with under 100k reg a year.
What do you think? Please comment below here, or on Facebook or Linkedin, wherever you see this post, or email me at mark@onlinepersonalswatch.com. I'd like to make sure we get this right, for you. 😉 Thanks for your consideration.
Post by Mark Brooks @ Courtland Brooks
100K to 1 million is quite a range. I’d add a color for 100K to 500K and change amber to > 500K to 1 million.
Would be great to have a list and keep it updated as the industry is changing pretty fast.
Would also be good to create a list of all the players in the dating industry and categorise: online/internet dating, brides, matchmaking, coaching, payment providers, affiliates, press, consultants, bloggers/authors, researchers, software vendors (or whatever the correct industry terms are).
100K to 1 million is quite a range. I’d add a color for 100K to 500K and change amber to > 500K to 1 million.
Would be great to have a list and keep it updated as the industry is changing pretty fast.
Would also be good to create a list of all the players in the dating industry and categorise: online/internet dating, brides, matchmaking, coaching, payment providers, affiliates, press, consultants, bloggers/authors, researchers, software vendors (or whatever the correct industry terms are).
+1 for Nick’s comment. 100k to 1 million is a big group.
+1 for Nick’s comment. 100k to 1 million is a big group.
It’s really a crap shoot on our assessment. We’ll look at Similarweb numbers, and make a quick assessment. I’d love to add more layering, but I don’t think we really have the insight on the private companies without having Comscore or Similarweb paid access. And it changes. We’d like to do the exercise once every couple years. Mainly it’s mean as a very basic indication of scale. Using this gradiation makes the process easy and quick. If we can get access to more data, we’d be able to get a couple more gradiations in I think.
We do have a lot more categories here. See the research page for “News by Category” http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/research-and-reviews.html
Then we show…
Acquisitions
Adult Dating
Billing Solutions
By Top Outlets
Dating Industry Statistics
Gay Dating
Investment Raises
Mobile Dating
Social Dating
Virtual Goods
Sounds like what you’re saying is, it would be good to show the businesses broken up by category on the By Company page. Broadly speaking we could break it up by
Dating Services, PID (Premium International Dating), Matchmaking
What do you think?
It would also be handy to list the top companies in each city. We’re working on that right now. In the form of a map. You’ll find that very useful Nick.
It’s really a crap shoot on our assessment. We’ll look at Similarweb numbers, and make a quick assessment. I’d love to add more layering, but I don’t think we really have the insight on the private companies without having Comscore or Similarweb paid access. And it changes. We’d like to do the exercise once every couple years. Mainly it’s mean as a very basic indication of scale. Using this gradiation makes the process easy and quick. If we can get access to more data, we’d be able to get a couple more gradiations in I think.
We do have a lot more categories here. See the research page for “News by Category” http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/research-and-reviews.html
Then we show…
Acquisitions
Adult Dating
Billing Solutions
By Top Outlets
Dating Industry Statistics
Gay Dating
Investment Raises
Mobile Dating
Social Dating
Virtual Goods
Sounds like what you’re saying is, it would be good to show the businesses broken up by category on the By Company page. Broadly speaking we could break it up by
Dating Services, PID (Premium International Dating), Matchmaking
What do you think?
It would also be handy to list the top companies in each city. We’re working on that right now. In the form of a map. You’ll find that very useful Nick.