Month: September 2022
Chispa and Voto Latino Reunite to Encourage People to Vote
PR NEWSWIRE – Chispa, the #1 dating app made for U.S. Latinx singles, has reunited with the political organization Voto Latino to educate, empower, and mobilize the next generation of Latinx voters for the 2022 midterm election. The two organizations partnered in 2020, during the Presidential election, to help motivate Latinx voters in what turned out to be a breakout year. ~61% of all Latinos over 18 registered to vote, up 12% points from 2016. Chispa is a Match Affinity dating app created in 2017 by Match Group.
See full article at PR Newswire
BLK, a dating app for black singles, also partners with "When We All Vote", Michelle Obama's initiative with a goal to increase participation in each and every election by helping to close the race and age gap.
Dating Industry Conferences
OPW – Here are a few events to consider.
First of all, our IDEA event. In real life, we have the Paris IDEA SUMMIT at happn's new HQ in Paris on Monday 28th November, with a day of socializing in Paris the day before on Sun 27th. This is exclusively for CEOs and leaders of significant dating apps to meet. Think of this as a round table for the industry's top leadership. The focus is on Innovation and M&A strategy. Prior IDEA SUMMITs this year were in New York, Dubai and Singapore. The Paris IDEA SUMMIT is free and by direct invite-only with just 22 participants.
Our external partners are also running the following events for your consideration.
For matchmakers and relationship coaches, there's the Global Love Conference in London on Wed 21st Sep, which is run by our friends at the Global Love Institute. See event here. The event is at Churchill War Rooms and costs $395.
For the dating industry at large, check out GDI's London Conference, which is their signature event on Thu 22nd Sep. Speakers hail from The Meet Group, Spark Networks, Irisnet, Inner Circle, Muzz, Besedo, Kindred and Jigsaw. This is at Leonardo's Royal London St.Paul's and tix are 399 GBP right here.
Bumble Sued Over Dual-Class Stock Structure
LAW360 – A Bumble investor has filed suit in Delaware against the company, founder Whitney Wolfe Herd, and its former private equity sponsor, Blackstone Inc., claiming the online dating company's dual-class stock structure stretches the law "beyond its breaking point." Bumble has created a new shareholder voting structure that violates Delaware corporate law by allocating voting power based on the identity of the shareholder rather than the number of shares, the complaint alleges.
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Dating App Smitten Raises $10M in Series A Funding
VENTUREBEAT – Smitten, a dating app for Generation Z and Centennials, has raised $10M in Series A funding. Among the investors are Makers Fund, Possible Ventures, Wonder Invest, and more. This new round of funding will help the company expand into new territories and grow its user base. As the app shows users different profiles, they have the options to play games to get to know the person.
by Jason McMaster
See full article at VentureBeat
This post also appears on InternetDatingInvestments.com
LTR Edition 17, Paktor CEO and Coffee Meets Bagel CMO
OPW – LTR Edition 17 is tomorrow, Friday, and features the CEO of Paktor, and the CMO of Coffee Meets Bagel. See event site here. This event is free and available to dating (IDEA) and social community leaders (OSCA), and our select partners. Apply to join us at tips@onlinepersonalswatch.com.
LTR stands for Love, Technology, Relationships and is the online event for leaders of companies that bring people together for love and relationships, via technology. This 90 minute online event is entirely free.
Hundreds of Dutch “Women” on Tinder Redirect Men to Expensive Chat Scam
NL TIMES – A new study by the news program Pointer showed that hundreds of Dutch female profiles on Tinder are fake. Many of the scam profiles are real people who try to get Tinder's actual users to sign up on various dodgy matchmaking websites which require payment per instant message sent. Tinder said it detected and deleted the fake profiles.
Why Single People Smell Different
BBC – There is a wealth of psychological and biological information stored in our scent, but for some reason we choose to ignore it. Body odour can reveal details about our health, and the presence of diseases (cholera smells sweet, acute diabetes like rotten apples). We might have a preference for certain smells, and there might be a genetic reason for that, but we don't act upon smells when choosing who we marry. Couples who had high HLA-dissimilarity had the highest levels of sexual satisfaction and the highest levels of desire to have children. The link between BO preference and genes spurred a fashion for T-shirt speed-dating and even "mail odour" services. But it would appear we do not make choices based on BO preference.
Internet Dating Jobs Listing Update – September 2022
OPW – 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:
2RedBeans
Director of Sales
Hinge
VP of Design
Lovoo
Vice President Marketing
Match Group
Director / Sr. Director – Strategy
Tinder
Marketing Director UK / Nordics
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.