by Saïd Amin
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Boomer Talk: Dating And Mating
NEWBURY PORT NEWS – Dec 2 – Close to 29% of adults ages 50 to 65 are now single. Dating can be challenging at any age. But for boomers, this is even more true when you consider that social skills may be a bit rusty. While some boomers may be skeptical or embarrassed to try online dating, people over age 50 make up Match.com's fastest-growing segment of users, with a 300% increase since 2000. When it comes to relationships, 84% of boomers rank physical intimacy as being "important" or "very important."
Internet Dating And Matrimonials Seen As Tangled Web
THE NATIONAL – Nov 19 – ~60% of residents in the UAE would not trust the internet dating to find a possible partner, a survey has found. Technology moves very fast, however tradition changes very slowly in UAE. 71% said they would trust the internet to pay bills, and 61% would use it to voice their opinion about social news. Asians showed greater acceptance of online dating. Four in five (82%) Asian respondents thought it was socially acceptable to find a partner online.
by Manal Ismail
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The Changing Face of Marriage in Asia
EHARMONY LABS – Oct 28 - People are delaying marriage. In Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong, the mean age for marriage is 29-30 for women, 31-33 for men. The percentage of those never married before age 40 has been on the rise. Educated women are less likely to marry. This is the opposite trend compared to those in the US and Europe, where marriage is more common among those more educated.
by Erina Lee
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Rise of the Single Surfers
DAILY MAIL – Oct 20 - Only 1 in 6 Brits prefer to meet in bars and at parties and 1 in 12 want to meet at night clubs. 3 in 5 Brits are dating or have dated someone they met online and staggering 84% would meet someone in the real world they have chatted virtually.
by Maysa Rawi
See full article at Daily Mail
JDate Declares Itself Obvious Leader in Jewish Weddings
JEZEBEL – Sep 29 - According to JDate survey, 52% of Jewish married couples who met online met on JDate (compared to 17% on Match and 10% on eHarmony). 63% percent of the online dates the users went on were set up through JDate. And 76% of Jewish online daters used JDate at some point, even if they didn't find a spouse on it.
by Anna North
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Julie Spira: Top 10 Mobile Dating Apps
PRESS RELEASE – Sep 21 - The year 2011 has quickly become the year of mobile dating. Julie Spira has announced the Cyber Dating Expert Top 10 Mobile Dating Apps for 2011.
1. eHarmony
2. Match Mobile
3. Are You Interested?
4. Skout
5. Plenty of Fish
6. OkCupid
7. Zoosk
8. SpeedDate
9. Grindr
10. Jazzed
According to Comscore, ~14M people worldwide access dating sites through mobile app. A recent Flurry report showed that mobile usage has now surpassed web usage for dating. Mobile app usage rose from 3.7 minutes in June of 2010 to 8.4 minutes in June of 2011.
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Online Dating and Politics Don’t Mix: Study
THE GLOBE AND MAIL – Sep 20 - People are more likely to reveal they are overweight than divulge their political stripes on online dating sites, according to a new American study. Sifting through 2,944 randomly sampled online dating profiles, only 14% of users stated their “political interests." Older daters as well as those with higher levels of income and education were more likely to divulge their political leanings. So were men, with women 8% less likely to report a political bent.
by Zosia Bielski
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Experian Hitwise Online Dating Rankings Updated
OPW – Aug 29 – Experian Hitwise online dating rankings are in for July 2011. PlentyofFish.com is #1 with over 20% of market share, followed by Match.com with ~9% of market share. SpeedDate.com is #3 (~6% of market share), Zoosk is #4, followed by Adam4Adam, SeniorPeopleMeet and DateHookup. Check out the international online dating rankings as well.Kantar Media Compete: Ranking of Top 250 Sites for July 2011
MARKETWIRE – Aug 29 - Among notable changes in July were drops in unique visitors to daily deal sites and soaring number of unique visitors hitting social networks. Groupon.com experienced an 8.9% drop to 30.6M unique visitors. Traffic also fell for Livingsocial.com, down 28% to 10.6M uniques. Facebook.com and Twitter.com both grew ~2.4% month-over-month (MOM), with Facebook increasing 17% YOY for a total of 149.8M uniquess and Twitter rising 12% YOY for a total of 32.4M uniques. Match.com attracted 16.1M unique visitors during July, a 19% increase MOM and 39 % rise YOY. Speeddate.com continued to demonstrate enviable growth in July, with a monthly increase of 34% and a lift of 669 % YOY.
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