Month: March 2020

Grindr Is the Dating App That Drains the Most Battery From a Mobile

Posted on March 31, 2020

Grindr profilesGAY TIMES – Mar 30 – Uswitch has analysed the 50 most popular apps on major app stores and looked at how many battery-draining permissions an app used, and when it came to dating apps Grindr came out on top. Grindr had 28 battery-draining permissions, it was followed by Bumble which has 20, Tinder which has 18 and Hinge which has 13. Google has 72 battery-draining permissions, Facebook 50 and Facebook Messenger 46.

by Matt Moore
See full article at Gay Times

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Quarantine Together Is a Dating App for These Times

Posted on March 30, 2020

Quarantine Together screenshotsCNN – Mar 29 – Daniel Ahmadizadeh and Christopher Smeder designed Quarantine Together, a dating app for exactly this moment. The app launched on March 8. The app is text-based. Every day at 6PM, the app asks its registered users whether they washed their hands. If they say yes, they are introduced to another user by text. After 15 minutes, the matched users will be offered a link to video chat.

by Aditi Sangal
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Mark Owen, Events & Adventures – Radio Interview

Posted on March 30, 2020

KRTY – Mark Owen, founder of Events & Adventures, talks about how social distancing is impacting dating and how Events & Adventures has adapted to this change to help singles stay connected during this difficult time. Events & Adventures is a social club for singles with year-round activities for singles including new virtual events, local events, exciting adventures, and world travel.

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Tinder Most Used Dating App Now

Posted on March 30, 2020

Tinder on screenFORBES – Mar 29 – The 2020 SKYN Condoms Sex & Intimacy Survey was not designed to examine the current or post-COVID-19 world. Its data gathering and results just happened to take place while the global pandemic was getting its boots on and heading out from Wuhan. According to Skyn, 39% of respondents used Tinder over its rivals to find love. Generation Z folks said they were more likely than Millennials to use Tinder (48% to 36%). #2 was Match.com (33%) and #3 Bumble (19%).

by John Scott Lewinski
See full article at Forbes

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The Meet Group CEO: Video Dating Is up During COVID-19

Posted on March 30, 2020

Themeetgroup geoff cookKYW NEWS RADIO – Mar 28 – Geoff Cook, CEO of The Meet Group says video dating has risen dramatically on all of his company's dating apps since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. On KYW In Depth, Cook talked about the dating changes people have made in response to social distancing and how COVID-19 could result in far reaching changes to dating culture.

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LGBT+ People Warned off Casual Sex

Posted on March 30, 2020

Gay dating apps1REUTERS – Mar 28 – According to Sensor Tower, Grindr downloads fell 19% in Spain and 8% in Italy. Gay app Scruff saw a drop of 7% and 10% week-on-week for Spain and Italy. But although the dating apps were down in terms of new users, operators reported higher usage by those on the site. Lesbian app HER had seen "a pretty heavy spike in usage". Over the weekend of March 14-15, HER reported its highest day of the year for "likes" on posts, with the overall number of likes rising by 16% over the weekend.

by Hugo Greenhalgh
See full article at Reuters

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Grindr Sale Finalized for ~$608.5 Million

Posted on March 30, 2020

Grindr icon 2020QUEERTY – Mar 28 – The move came just four years after Kunlun bought the app from its original creator, Joel Simkhai. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S, a government watchdog group, ordered Kunlun to sell off a majority stake in the company last year. One of the new investors is James Lu, a Chinese tech mogul. A company called San Vicente Acquisition Partners was set up to make the purchase and allow the buyers to stay anonymous.

by Dan Tracer
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Global Dating Insights Conference Updates

Posted on March 29, 2020

GDI-New-York-2020-DigOPW – Mar 29 – The GDI Conference in NYC was a success, with ~60 attendees. Sadly, naturally, because of coronavirus the Singapore (12th May) and Los Angeles (11th June) conferences are postponed. However, Dominic and Simon are confident the London GDI show will still go ahead on 1st October. Google, Spectrum Labs, and Besedo are kindly sponsoring the GDI London show.

IDEA SUMMIT in Singapore and L.A. were in the works for the day before the GDI conferences and are similarly postponed.

In the mean time, we just uploaded these segments from my 'state-of-the-industry' from the last GDI London show. Top Dating Sites (1 min 6), User Growth (1 min 23), Gender Distribution (1 min), The Rise of Match Group (41s), Facebook Dating Threat (2 mins 44), Full Presentation (14 mins).

AdultFriendFinder Will Stream Weddings so People Don’t Have to Postpone During Pandemic

Posted on March 29, 2020

Adultfriendfinder logo 20NEWSWEEK – Mar 27 – Weddings, along with concerts, parades and other events, are postponed because of coronavirus. AdultFriendFinder is offering to stream weddings for free on its website and gives engaged couples the opportunity to exchange nuptials in front of their family, friends and loved ones while still social distancing. CEO Jon Buckheit said "There's been a big increase in video chat and video streaming, and that's something that we've always offered on the site. So we have the technology to do it, and we thought that we should offer [to stream weddings] at no charge to people who want to use our site for that purpose at this time" in private, password-protected channels, or with the world in a public channel.

by James Crowley
See full article at Newsweek

ProSieben Shares Rally After CEO Conze’s Departure

Posted on March 28, 2020

Prosiebensat logoREUTERS – Mar 27 – Shares in ProSiebenSat.1 Media rallied by 9% on Friday after the departure of CEO Max Conze. ProSieben announced that Conze was leaving with immediate effect and CFO Rainer Beaujean would assume his responsibilities. Conze had sought to accelerate a pivot to digital commerce and advertising to offset a relentless decline in ProSieben's core commercial TV franchise, but while this preserved top-line growth it squeezed profitability and pushed up debt. The recent announcement of the $500M takeover of The Meet Group incurred the disapproval of Italian broadcaster Mediaset, which took advantage of a precipitous decline in ProSieben's share price to up its stake to 20%. Mediaset wanted ProSieben to change course and concentrate on its core media business. Analysts at Citi said it was possible that Mediaset could partner with Czech investor Daniel Kretinsky, who owns a 10% stake in ProSieben, to make a takeover bid.

See full article at New York Times

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