YAHOO FINANCE – June 13 – Coffee Meets Bagel Co-CEO and Co-founder Dawoon Kang shared an exclusive announcement about her dating app; this includes new offerings like 'unlimited takes' and 'priority likes.' She mentioned that Coffee Meets Bagel made a big investment into the dating app, and doubled its subscription base. She would not disclose the number of paying users.
Month: June 2019
Match.com Is Engaging Single Parents With Integrated Childcare
PSFK – June 12 – Childcare, which is notoriously expensive and hard to manage, can be a hurdle for parents who want to pursue their social lives on top of raising children. So Match.com partnered with European childcare booking service Yoopies to provide three free hours of babysitting to U.K. users who are single parents.
Mark Brooks: This is a great example of how dating apps can extend services (and demonstrate care). There are so many more aspects to dating, and relationships, and life after dating that we can delve into and deliver curated services.
Dating App Lumen Fights Ageism in International Campaign
CAMPAIGNLIVE – June 12 – Lumen, the dating app for those 50 years and older, has unveiled an international campaign to tell consumers: "50 is Just the Start." For the effort, Lumen partnered with The Silver Classix Crew, Atlanta's official 50+ dance team, which has performed at professional sports events, on TV and in commercials and music videos.
Bumble’s Female Film Force Competition Selects Winning Projects
HOLLYWOOD REPORTER – June 12 – Five short film projects from teams of all-female writers, directors and producers will now receive funding from dating app Bumble. The Female Film Force, now in its second year and having expanded from the U.K. and Ireland to also include France and Germany, selects five short film projects from teams of all-female writers, directors and producers which get fully funded and supported by teams of mentors. This year, ~1,300 pitches were received. The five winning projects include a comedic drama about Queen Victoria's post-natal depression, a story about a British-Nigerian girl at a traditional English boarding school, a comedy about a grounded plane full of religious party animals, a French animation film about mental health and a German documentary shining a light on feminist views in Berlin. The funding will help launch these women into the industry.
Internet Dating Jobs Listing Update – June 2019
OPW – June 12 – 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:
Badoo
Co-founder of Live Streaming
eHarmony
Director of Search, Acquisition Marketing
Match Group
VP, Product
Meetic
Brand Acquisition Director
The League
Director or VP of Operations & Finance (COO fxn)
The Meet Group
Sr. Vice President of Finance & Accounting
Tinder
SVP of Tinder, Japan
To see more open positions go here.
Do you have an idating industry job offer which is not included? Please, send it to tips@onlinepersonalswatch.com and we will add it to the list.
Yelp, Bloomberg and Tinder Agree: Abortion Bans Are ‘Bad for Business’
MARKETWATCH – June 10 – That's an excerpt from an open letter signed by CEOs at ~180 companies aimed at lawmakers in states that have recently passed abortion bans. The letter appeared in The New York Times as a full-page ad Wednesday, less than a month after Alabama banned doctors from perform an abortion at any stage of pregnancy. Several other states followed with similar laws. The letter was signed by the likes of Bloomberg's Peter Grauer, Yelp's Jeremy Stoppelman, and Tinder's Elie Seidman.
In India, the Online Dating User Base Triples in 2018
LIVEMINT – June 11 – Dating companies believe that the growing demand for online dating in India is driven by its female population. Executives overseeing dating apps peg the dating app market to be valued at $100M in the next five to eight years. A Google report released this May said dating searches are catching up with matrimony queries, with a 40% increase over the past year. TrulyMadly has 5M users in India and is recording 300K-500K messages exchanged and 15K mutual matches per day. But women only comprise 20% of the profiles at best. "Since customizing the product for India in Sep 2018, we have witnessed an overwhelming response with active female users on the app tripling," said Melissa Hobley, CMO of OkCupid, an app that has ~1M users in India.
Creator of Private School Dating App Toffee Defends ‘Elitist’ Accusations
10DAILY – June 10 – Lydia Davis, who created the Toffee dating app for people who were privately educated, admits it was a risky thing to do. After almost a year operating in the UK, Toffee launched in Australia last week, after a three-week pre-launch period. It has been branded 'elitist' and 'snobby'. Davis claims that's not the case. The name 'Toffee' is itself a play on words. 'Toff' is a slang term to describe someone from an privileged background. Davis said Toffee could possibly expand into the business or networking space, but they are waiting to see how the app fares in Australia over the next six months.
Ashley Madison’s Scandals
MIRROR.CO.UK – June 10 – Ashley Madison has now launched a coaching service to help clients betray their other halves and get away with it. The site claims ~60M member accounts worldwide. The new feature is marketed especially towards older men who have less experience in having affairs, according to the site's chief strategy officer Paul Keable. Many thought the controversial site was finished in 2015 when it was invaded by hackers who released the private list of members to the public. The hackers also exposed Ashley Madison itself as a 'cheat'. In 2016 the website admitted tricking its males users into signing up by using 'fembots' impersonating real women. It was subsequently reported that 70K of the sites female users were allegedly robots. The company claimed to have discontinued the practice in North America in 2014 and internationally in 2015, although offered no evidence of this.
People Want Gay Marriage to Be Legal in India: Study
