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Month: February 2022
Vegan App Grazer Raises £400K in One Day
LINKEDIN – Grazer, a dating and friend-finding app for vegans and vegetarians, raised ~£400K within 24 hours of launching its crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs.com.
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Tinder Will Stop Charging Older Users More to Access Tinder+
TIMES OF INDIA – The development comes after a report by Mozilla and Consumers International said that the online dating platform charged users between the ages of 30 and 49 ~65.3% more than the younger users in every country except Brazil.
9 Dating Apps and Sites That Died
MASHABLE – Here are nine dating sites and apps that died. RIP.
- Sparked
Facebook Dating launched in 2019, five years after founder Mark Zuckerberg claimed that Facebook was a better dating site than Tinder. Facebook Dating has thousands of active users, while Tinder has millions. Facebook tried again with Sparked, a video speed dating app that launched last year. Sparked shut down less than a year after its inception. - Chappy
UK reality star Ollie Locke launched gay dating app Chappy in 2018 with help from Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd. Chappy shut down and folded into Bumble just two years later. - Hater
Hater made waves back in 2017. This app's niche was connecting people through things they despise. App founder Brandon Alper pitched Hater on Shark Tank in 2017 and received $200K from billionaire Mark Cuban, but the following year Hater wasn't making money. - HowAboutWe
HowAboutWe was an innovative dating app in that singles snagged dates by suggesting activities with each other. HowAboutWe's demise was due to a buyout. Match acquired HowAboutWe in 2014, and the site is no more. - Spoonr
First called Cuddlr, the app launched in 2014 to help people find platonic cuddle buddies. Cuddlr shut down in 2015 and rebranded as Spoonr months later. Spoonr closed in 2017 with a tweet: "It was fun while it lasted! SPOONR is now closed! Hugs." - Siren
Siren launched in 2015 by two women of color to "fight the swipe" of dating apps created by men. Instead of swiping, Siren posed daily questions for users to answer and seek potential matches based on whose responses they liked. Siren shuttered in 2017 with a blog post. Co-founders Susie Lee and Katrina Hess claimed that investors didn't complete their payments, and the app ran out of money. - Missed Connections
Oh, Craigslist Missed Connections. Gone too soon. - Yahoo! Personals
A site with the same fate as Craigslists' personals, Yahoo! Personals shuttered in 2010 when it merged with Match. - GreatBoyfriends.com and GreatGirlfriends.com
A two-for-one, GreatBoyfriends and GreatGirlfriends launched in 2002 by then-Elle Magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll. GreatBoyfriends and Girlfriends died after wedding site The Knot acquired them in 2005.
Dating News Headlines: Grazer, Tinder, Betterhalf.ai, CarpeDM
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- Grazer Raised 400k in Crowdfunding Campaign Within the First 24 Hours – LinkedIn
- Tinder Plans to Make Dating More Affordable for Older People – Times of India
- We Hardly Knew Ye: 9 Dating Apps and Sites That Died – Mashable
- Community Counts: Gen Z and Millennial Singles Find New Ways to Celebrate Valentine's Day – PR Newswire
- Betterhalf.ai Announces Its Matrimony App With a Human Matchmaking Service – IndianWeb2
- CarpeDM Wants to Change the Dating Game for Professional Black Women – DC Inno
- Smile Dating App Finds a Match Based on Your Sense of Humor – Boston Business Journal
- Cupid's Code: Tweaking an Algorithm Can Alter the Course of Finding Love Online – Stanford Business
Dutch Watchdog Fines Apple $5.7M Again in App Store Dispute
REUTERS – The Dutch antitrust watchdog on Monday fined apple Apple 5M euros ($5.72M) for a third time for failing to allow software app makers in the Netherlands to use non-Apple payment methods for dating apps listed in the company's App Store. The Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has been levying weekly fines of 5M euros on Apple since the company missed a Jan. 15 deadline to make changes ordered by the watchdog.
Dating News Headlines: Apple
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Bumble Acquires French Gen Z Dating App, Fruitz
TECH CRUNCH – Bumble is adding the fast-growing French dating app Fruitz to its family of apps. Deal terms were not being disclosed. The quirky app Fruitz assigns a fruit to each particular kind of relationship type, ranging from those who want long-term commitments to those in search of one-night action. This allows users to filter out those who aren't on the same page as them. It also prompts users to answer questions that serve ice breakers before messaging their match. Fruitz was co-founded by Julian Kabab (CEO), Fabrice Bascoulergue (CTO), and Arnaud Ruols (CFO) and initially launched in France in Feb, 2017. To date, Fruitz has been downloaded 5.6M times globally across the App Store and Google Play, according to Sensor Tower. As of Feb. 3, 2022, the app was ranked No. 4 on the iPhone's top free charts in the "Lifestyle" category in its home market of France.
by Sarah Perez
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Dating News Headlines: Bumble, Fruitz, Hinge, ISHQ
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Geoff Cook – the Creator Economy & Dating
OPW – The creator economy is taking off. What does this mean for dating and online social communities? Geoff Cook, CEO and co-founder of a unique worldwide social dating company, The Meet Group, has a unique vantage point on this trend. He found that the pandemic changed consumer behavior, increasing the use of online interaction and social entertainment as well as the trust, and acceptance of meeting and socializing online. Geoff noted that live-streaming and the Creator Economy already account for most consumer spending on social apps. The Meet Group is now the #1 live-streaming dating platform in North America & Europe. The company always develops new live video formats to engage & delight. This platform (vPaaS) is now available to other dating apps like POF who have it integrated.
LTR stands for Love, Technology, Relationships and the online conference covers the Internet dating and Online Social Communities space. It is for members of IDEA and OSCA.
The October LTR was kindly sponsored by RealMe, vPaaS by Meet Group, FaceTec, OneRep, and Courtland Brooks