This is the news for the week of November 27th through December 3rd, 2009. Here is the news we covered for this week:
TELEGRAPH.CO.UK – Nov 16 - People approaching or already past retirement age are the most active and experimental of all daters, according to a study for The Sunday Telegraph. The survey found that 62% of men and women over 55 have joined a dating site compared to 21% of 18-24-year-olds. They also met up with more internet dates (an average of 8.2) and found more relationships online (2.1) than any other age group.
The full article was originally published at Telegraph.co.uk, but is no longer available.
OPW – Nov 13 – October’s unique audience rankings from Nielsen indicate that C-date is continuing to flirt its way into the hearts of daters across Europe. The casual dating site maintained its #1 position in Spain with a unique audience score of 449k. However, C-date also grabbed third place in both France (1,195k) and Switzerland (55k) after not making the top three in either country during September.
In the U.K., free dating site PlentyofFish remained #1 in October with a unique audience ranking of 543k. FriendsReunitedDating moved up a spot to #2 with a score of 514k, while the Match.com Network at 452k was able to bump DatingDirect out of the top three.
This is the news for the week of November 6th through November 12th, 2009. We hope you enjoy the new weekly news format. Here is the news we covered for this week:
FREE MOBILE DATING BLOG – Nov 11 – PhoneFling.com has posted the results of their nationwide survey on attitudes about flirting and finding love in a Web 2.0 world. Intelitech polled its 275,000 PhoneFling and PhoneShag members.
86% have known someone that used an online dating site
70.4% have known someone that took the interaction offline and met their date in person
43.6% have even known someone that entered into a long-term relationship with someone after finding them through an online dating site
The full article was originally published at Free Mobile Dating Blog, but is no longer available.
OPW – Nov 10 – Hitwise tracks total site visits, and the organization’s rankings are in from October. PlentyofFish remained #1 with Americans, followed in order by Match, Singlesnet, Yahoo Personals, DateHookup, eHarmony, Adam4Adam, TRUE, SeniorPeopleMeet and BlackPeopleMeet.
Yet while the waters were mostly calm in the U.S. market, Shaadi was busy making waves in other countries. The Indian dating site rose from #16 to #9 in Canada and from #21 to #11 in the U.K. in just a month.
Also big movers and shakers in October: Canadian versions of mainstream U.S. dating sites. While Match.com stayed steady at #4, Match Canada leapt from #14 to #8 and Yahoo Personals Canada jumped from #13 to #10.
The biggest losers in the Top 25 in Canada were Christian Mingle (#7 to #12) and Singlesnet (#10 to #15).
This is the news for the week of October 30th through November 5th, 2009. We hope you enjoy the new weekly news format. Here is the news we covered for this week:
OPW – Oct 28 – Nielsen has released their European unique audience online dating rankings for September.
Still, Nielsen’s unique audience data indicates that interest in online dating appeared to decline somewhat across all of Europe during September. Click here for more of Nielsen’s latest European online dating rankings.
ALIBABA – Oct 22 - A 2008 online survey conducted by the Matchmaking Services Industry Committee, showed that 45.5% of those surveyed have used matchmaking sites, and 32.6% prefer to find a mate on the Internet. The number of Chinese online daters will reach 140M by 2010, creating a market of up to 1.2 billion yuan ($175.8M), according to iResearch. Zhenai.com, China's largest matchmaking site, where rates range from 5,998 yuan ($879) per year, announced that it had 20M registered users. Jiayuan.com, whose rates go from free to 19,800 yuan ($2,912) annually, said that its total registered members topped 21M. FULL ARTICLE @ ALIBABA.COM
This is the news for October 18th through October 23rd, 2009. Here are some of the topics we covered for this week: