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Month: July 2020
Tinder Users Getting Banned After Showing Support for BLM
MASHABLE – July 11 – Tinder users are still saying the platform banned them after writing Black Lives Matter and other phrases about racial justice and police abolition in their bios and messages. Safety is paramount to everything Tinder does, said a Tinder spokesperson, and this goes into how users are banned. There are automatic bans for spam behavior (i.e., right swiping on everyone and immediately messaging a Facebook link for matches to 'like'), and user reports that result in bans. When a user is reported, it's flagged in Tinder's systems for human review. What's likely happening here is the latter, users reporting each other, resulting in bans. This report-and-ban problem isn't new. For years, trans users have spoken out about getting banned from Tinder due to transphobic users reporting their accounts. Tinder is aware of this issue and, according to its spokesperson, senior moderators look at those cases. They acknowledged that some cases "slip through the cracks" and encouraged users to email if they believe they have been wrongly banned.
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Matchmaker Maria Avgitidis Offers Advice on Love in Her New Podcast
THE NATIONAL HERALD – July 9 – Agape Match CEO Maria Avgitidis, best known as Matchmaker Maria, has announced the debut this week of the first three episodes of her new podcast titled Ask a Matchmaker. The podcast immediately hit the top 20 relationship podcast charts upon announcement at #16 in the USA and #1 in Greece, according to Chartable, a podcast measurement company. Each week, Avgitidis and her special guest answer dating and relationship questions in front of a live (virtual) audience. The origins of Ask a Matchmaker began on Instagram. The Ask a Matchmaker podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcast, Spotify, and Stitcher. To attend a live show or submit a dating question, visit askamatchmaker.com.
VerySocialNetwork.com Launches as Sister Blog to OPW.news
OPW – July 11 – After 5 years, we've decided to blow the dust off the old Social Networking Watch blog, rebrand and refocus it. Social Networking Watch was started in 2006 and ran alongside Online Personals Watch. We will now focus it in on Online Social Communities. We're also starting the Online Social Community Association as a free to join community for leaders of online social communities. See www.OSCA.gp. – Mark Brooks, President IDEA.gp (and OSCA.gp)
The Meet Group Announces Safer Dating Advisory Board
BUSINESSWIRE – July 9 – The Meet Group,a leading provider of interactive dating solutions, announced the formation of its Safer Dating Advisory Board comprised of top epidemiologists and health experts to consult on dating products, provide safer dating guidance, as well as help shape the company's response to the novel coronavirus amid the ongoing pandemic. "I look forward to working with Doctors Hazra, Elfassy, and Sharp to pass on sound information to our millions of dating app users," said Geoff Cook, CEO of The Meet Group.
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Could Streaming-Based Dating Apps Be the Future of Online Dating?
CHEDDAR – July 9 – "The goal of The Meet Group products is to make everyone the star of their own dating show."
"The age of shallow swiping apps is kinda over and people are getting more and more demanding of video."
"In the early days we advised people not to meet in person. Now it's uneven. Today we formed a safer dating board, to council us so we could provide good tips to our users. Scientifically sound tips."
– Geoff Cook, CEO of The Meet Group
Match Group COO Gary Swidler on Video Dating
CNBC – July 9 – Gary Swidler, COO of Match Group, talks about the company's new video product, race filters and user engagement during the pandemic.
Chinese BlueCity Focused on Asia After IPO
REUTERS – July 9 – China's biggest gay dating app's owner BlueCity is focused on expanding in Asia, its founder said after it made its Nasdaq debut despite a U.S. securities regulator warning against investments in Chinese firms. BlueCity, which says its Blued app already has the largest market share in China, India, South Korea and Vietnam, raised $84.8M in an IPO which valued the Beijing-based company at $614M. Blued claims 49M registered users in 210 countries, and 6M monthly active users (MAUs), 49% of them outside China.
Inside the New RealMe+Spectrum Service: IDEA Webinar Video
OPW – July 9 – Here's the video from the IDEA Webinar on June 24th. RealMe and Spectrum Labs executives explain three use-cases for how their new combined service, CheckPlus, improves your Internet dating service.
According to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, romance scams were responsible for over $200 million in losses during 2019, up 19% from 2018. This unfortunate trend is showing no signs of slowing down, highlighting the critical need for increased vigilance from online dating service operators.
RealMe and Spectrum Labs have partnered to develop CheckPlus, a comprehensive fraud-prevention service to increase safety and security for users. Neil Davis, Chief Business Officer of RealMe, and Lee Davis, Vice President of Spectrum Labs, discuss the application of CheckPlus using three case studies in the latest IDEA webinar, hosted by Mark Brooks.
For more on RealMe, please visit www.therealme.com/dating.
For more on Spectrum Labs, please visit www.getspectrum.io.