01AMOUR – Jan 6 – Dating site Happn and the brand Nescafé have partnered for a new campaign that let Happn users propose a Nescafe coffee date to each other.
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Cheating Website Victoria Milan Plans To Double Its 75K Irish Members In 2017
IRISHMIRROR.IE – Jan 5 – "We currently have ~75k Irish users and are aiming to reach 150k users in 2017 with our marketing and PR activations", said Sigurd Vedal, CEO of Victoria Milan. Although the figures sound ambitious, Mr Vedal says since he launched the website in 2010 they've racked up ~5.8M members in 33 countries.
by Kathy Armstrong
See full article at IrishMirror.ie
Meetic And Attractive World Sanctioned By CNIL
LA SIGNARE – Jan 3 – Meetic and AttractiveWorld.net has been fined by CNIL (The National Commission for Computing and Freedom) for processing sensitive personal data of its users without their consent.
by Gerome Betterncourt
See full article at La Signare
Tinder And Grindr Linked To ~500 Crimes In The UK
MIRROR.CO.UK – Dec 31 – Police have linked ~500 crimes to the use of dating apps Tinder and Grindr in the past 5 years, including murder, rape and child abuse. Almost a third of these were sexual offences.
by Jack Blanchard
See full article at Mirror.co.uk
PrisonDating.co.uk Is A New Dating Site For Inmates
THESUN.CO.UK – Dec 9 – British lags are using new online dating site – PrisonDating.co.uk – to meet a partner. Users can upload profile pictures of themselves and create a profile based on their interests and backgrounds to attract a new partner. Some reveal their release date, although most avoid the subject of why they've ended up in jail.
Lovoo To Pay 1.2M Eur In Settlement
GRUENDERSZENE – Sep 28 – Lovoo's executives (Alexander Friede, and brothers Benjamin und Björn Bak) were ordered by Dresden court to pay 1.2M Eur fine for creating ~500 fake female profiles on their dating app to lure male users into paying membership fees. It is estimated that Lovoo made ~1.2M Euros using those fake profiles.
German Dating Site Parship Gets Face Lift
PARSHIP – Sep 29 – Parship has rolled out a new website and logo redesign. The new design is modern and clean with a new "Love Check" logo, a combination of a heart and check mark.
See full article at Parship website (in German)
Berkeley International Is Launching In Ireland
IRISHMIRROR – Sep 27 – The elite match-making service is open to those aged 35 and over and costs a minimum of €6k per year to join. The Dublin office joins other key locations around the world including Cannes, Milan, London and New York.
by Anita McSorley
See full article at IrishMirror
ProSiebenSat.1 Buys Majority Of Online Dating Group Parship Elite
REUTERS – Sep 5 – German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 is buying a majority stake in German online dating group Parship Elite in a deal valuing the company at 300M Eur ($335M) to expand its digital portfolio. ProSieben is paying 100M Eur for 50% plus one share in Parship Elite Group, which operates Parship and Elite Partner in the German-speaking world. It will also replace loans worth 100M Eur with preferred capital bearing a fixed rate of interest. The previous owners, Oakley Capital Private Equity II and the existing management, will keep just under 50% of shares in the group.
by Maria Sheahan
See full article at Reuters
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Candidate Dating App Is Adding Hot-or-Not Feature
BUSINESS PORTAL 24 – Aug 4 – Candidate, a German dating app launched in 2015, works as Q&A game. Users ask 5 questions on any topics and rank their answers or participate in the games of others and answer their questions. There were no profile photos visible to the users before they were matched, until now. Users can now play a "hot-or-not" game that combines the first visual impression of a photo with the existing question and answer game. The app's userbase is strong in metropolitan areas such as Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Vienna. The app claims 15k active users and 100k downloads since its launch.
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