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Month: December 2021
Match and Candace Bushnell Team up to Help Singles Find Love in 2022
PR NEWSWIRE – Match has partnered with Candace Bushnell, international best-selling author and the OG Carrie Bradshaw, to help Match members find love during dating's peak season. Starting January 2, known as 'Dating Sunday', Candace will be overseeing Match's new Expert Picks feature. With Expert Picks, members will take a quiz to opt-in to receiving hand-picked matches from the Match Experts team, and Candace herself will be personally dropping in to deliver matches.
Dating App BLK Turned ‘Vax That Thang up’ Into the Song of the Summer
ADWEEK – Despite the havoc that multiple Covid-19 variants have wreaked over the past two years, vaccination remains a very controversial topic – especially within the Black community. BLK, the largest dating app made for black singles, has partnered with rap legends Juvenile, Mannie Fresh, and Mia X, turning the iconic rap classic "Back That Thang Up" into the new vaccine anthem, "Vax That Thang Up."
by Shannon Miller & Malinda diPasquale
See full article at AdWeek
Dating News Headlines: BLK, Match, Aill Goen
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- Matchmaking Agency in Japan Uses Vending Machine to Offer Its Services – Malay Mail
- Match and Candace Bushnell Team up to Help Singles Find Love in 2022 – PR Newswire
- How Dating App BLK Turned 'Vax That Thang Up' Into the Song of the Summer – AdWeek
- Japan Firms Adopt AI Dating App to Help Staff Find Love Amid Pandemic – Kyodo News
Buy Match to Exploit Apple’s Outdated Payment System
FORBES – A Dutch antitrust authority ruled that Apple must allow dating apps to use alternative payments or face a weekly fine of $5.6M. Investors should consider buying Match Group. A filing at the Securities and Exchange Commission in June revealed Match had 15.1M paying subscribers, up 15% from a year ago. Annualized revenue was $2.7B and profits reached $978M. Match shares closed on Thursday at $133.44. The stock trades at 72.6x forward earnings, and 13.1x sales. Market capitalization has fallen to $37.2B, following a share price decline of 11% in 2021. Shares can easily trade to $190 during the next 12 months on the Apple news alone, a gain of 42% from current levels.
A Chinese City Is Building a Dating Database for Its Singles
VICE.COM – Communist Party officials from the northern city of Luanzhou have begun work on gathering the personal information of unmarried men and women, and entering collected data in a central database. Two group dating parties have been organized already this year, with a virtual dating party scheduled to be held on New Year's Eve on app Douyin, the original Chinese version of TikTok. But the government's intentions, however good, were lost on many Chinese internet users, who remained skeptical about their approach to finding love. Gender imbalance remains a huge issue in Chinese society, a hangover of the country’s decades-long one-child policy which saw a strong preference for boys over girls.
Dating News Headlines: Parship, Match
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- Parship Launches New Campaign – Media.de (in German)
- Forget Tinder. This Chinese City Is Building a Dating Database for Its Singles – Vice
- Buy Match to Exploit Apple's Outdated Payment System – Forbes
Dating News Headlines: Glii, Bumble, Quack Quack
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Beatmatch Connects People Through Their Taste in Music
GEEKWIRE – Chudi Iregbulem is the founder and CEO of Beatmatch. He spent four years at Amazon Web Services in Seattle as a developer and product manager before leaving in August to pursue his startup full time. Iregbulem is a DJ with a clear appreciation for how relationships can begin with and be enhanced by shared musical interests. Beatmatch works by syncing with users' activity on Spotify or Apple Music and learning what they like to listen to. The app's algorithm finds listeners with similar tastes and makes recommendations for potential connections.
Dating News Headlines: Beatmatch
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