METRO.CO.UK – Dec 8 - The Gaydar iPhone app is currently the top dating app and the ninth most popular app overall. The free app features six million profiles and integrates a number of the website's most popular features, including messages, search and friends and favourites.
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SHINY SHINY – Nov 11 – Gay dating site Gaydar has finally released an app for iPhone and it has leapt into the top 40 social networking apps on iTunes in 48hrs. Gaydar launched in 1999 and has 6M members worldwide. It may be too late to unseat its younger rival app Grindr, which is still steady at number 13 in the social networking app rankings. FULL ARTICLE @ SHINY SHINY
WASHINGTON BLADE – Nov 3 – This week, Mixology celebrates its first year as “D.C.’s premier matchmaking service for gays and lesbians.” The founders Kim Rosenberg and Meghann Novinskie worked in the dating industry in D.C. and San Francisco, respectively, when they reconnected at a matchmaking conference. Three years later when research, skill refining, planning and financing came together, they launched Mixology. Mixology joined CAGLCC soon thereafter. How much business Mixology has from CAGLCC members is strictly confidential. FULL ARTICLE @ WASHINGTON BLADE
QUEERTY – Sep 29 – Denmark's gays claim to have the biggest penises on Manhunt.net. If the men of Denmark are to be believed, they take home the crown with an average 7.59 inches, followed by Italy and Sweden. (The U.S. comes in at No. 9., with 7.37.) FULL ARTICLE @ QUEERTY
TELEGRAPH.CO.UK – Sep 23 – Only 1% (240K) of the British population is gay according to a
report from the ONS. The gay ‘dating’ website Gaydar has 1.5M profiles
in the UK. Given that almost all its users are men, that means – if the
ONS figures are to be believed – that at ~1.25M heterosexual men in the
UK are registered on a site whose principal purpose is to hook men up
with each other for casual sex. Gaydar is entirely private and a bit
naughty, whereas the ONS figures come from a survey where people were
asked out of the blue to tell the government their sexuality. Whose
figures do you think are likely to be more accurate? FULL ARTICLE @ TELEGRAPH.CO.UK
SHINY SHINY – Sep 23 - Grindr is an app aimed at gay men looking for chat, dates or sexy times with other gay men nearby. Its success has prompted questions about whether there'll ever be a straight version of this. Do women date like this? Women do seem to be fine using location based dating apps – there's a lesbian equivalent of Grindr app called Qrushr Girls (different company, different app, same concept). FULL ARTICLE @ SHINY SHINY
PRESS RELEASE – Sep 21 - Grindr, the all-male mobile location-based networking service, has reached yet another milestone as its member ranks swell to more than one million. Since launching only eighteen months ago in March 2009, Grindr has become a global sensation. In the US, Grindr has ~500K users. Meanwhile, in the United Kingdom and Australia, ~150,000 and ~100,000 users respectively have joined Grindr . On a daily basis, Grindr counts ~250K active users who log on eight times per day and spend an average of 1.3 hours each day using the app. FULL ARTICLE @ PR NEWSWIRE
PRESS RELEASE – Aug 19 – Parship
is now offering its gay service on a global scale: from now on,
gay men and lesbians around the world can go on a worldwide search for a
suitable partner by visiting gay-parship.com. The site is now available in nine
languages. FULL ARTICLE @ PARSHIP.DE
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TENNESSEAN – July 29 – Advertised entirely by word of mouth, SheDate.com has grown to 23,000 members since its October launch. The website is strictly for lesbian and bisexual women seeking community, friendship, flirtation and love. Their average age is 38. Membership is $34.95 a month, with discounts for longer commitments.
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