PRESS RELEASE – May 20 – Ireland’s largest dating site, AnotherFriend.com is celebrating this week after reaching half a million members. To celebrate this milestone, AnotherFriend.com has released the findings from Love: Uncovered, the first detailed study of online dating and love in Ireland. The report reveals fascinating facts such as 45% of singles are using online dating to find ‘the one’ and quarter of single men and women have cheated on a partner in the past. AnotherFriend.com caters for single Irish people looking to meet someone for fun and friendship or love and romance.
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92% Live Together Before Marriage
UKPA – Apr 25 – Nine in 10 British newlyweds have lived together before their wedding day, a new survey has suggested. The survey by eHarmony.co.uk polled 505 married adults of 25 years or more, and 530 married adults of one year or less. It found it was more common today for couples to separate at some point during their relationship, then get back together at a later stage and marry.
The full article was originally published at UKPA, but is no longer available.
Founder Of Meetic Hooks Up With Glasses Startup
BUSINESS INSIDER – Mar 29 – Marc Simoncini, Founder and CEO of Meetic, the biggest dating site in Europe worth ~$500M on the Paris stock market, is investing $10+ million into Sensee.com and taking over as CEO. Sensee.com sells eyewear and has an ambitious goal to cut in half the average bill in the category. Simoncini has been looking for an exit from Meetic, a thriving success but by now a fairly mature business, which must be boring for the restless entrepreneur. He put the site up for sale last year but could not find a buyer at the price he sought. He also set up a venture capital firm, Jaina Capital, with 100M euros of his own money.
by Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry
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Mark Brooks: I know the perfect buyer for Meetic. M***h.com. Can you guess?
Time For Romance To Click
IRISH TIMES – Feb 8 – Online dating has become commonplace, and spring is the most popular time for people to give it a go. Paula Hall of Parship.ie says that spring brings by far the biggest spike in new members. In fact, up to three times as many people join in spring as at any other time of the year. Jill McGrath, MD of Maybefriends.com, sees a similar trend, with up to 6,000 new people joining the site in January alone. Gráinne Barry from Anotherfriend.com, which now has ~500K members and boasts 300 marriages, agrees. “We are seeing a growing trend with the 45+ audience. FULL ARTICLE @ IRISH TIMES
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Love.co.uk To Be Launched On Valentine’s Day
WLD BLOG – Feb 3 – WhiteLabelDating.com partner Web Sites Ltd is launching Love.co.uk, a brand new online dating site that will be going live on Valentine’s Day in the UK. Prior to the launch, the public will have the opportunity to enter a launch prize draw.
Unhappy Nordic Married Women Turn To VictoriaMilan
OREBROGUIDEN – Dec 27 – Women looking for an affair through dating sites feel lonely and are missing the passion in the relationships they have, according to a survey by VictoriaMilan, a Nordic dating site for people who are in relationships and looking for a flirt. VictoriaMilan surveyed ~10 000 pre-registered members during their two-week launch period. 30% of women said they were looking for a long-term relationship, while 25% were only interested in a flirt to spice up their current relationship.
The full article was originally published at Orebroguiden, but is no longer available.
AdoptAGuy.com Set To Launch In U.S.
BUSINESS WIRE – Nov 2 - AdoptAGuy.com, a French free dating site where women make the first move, is launching in U.S. AdoptAguy.com allows women to place men in their “cart” and only the “products” in the "cart" can talk back. The site launched in France 3 years ago and claims 300M page views a month. FULL ARTICLE @ BUSINESS WIRE
Online Dating In Spain
TERRA NOTICIAS – Oct 28 - According to the National Statistics Institute, there are ~10M singles in Spain. Half of them are using dating sites and this figure increases by 7% each year. Meetic has more than 6.5M registered users in Spain.
The full article was originally published at Terra Noticias, but is no longer available.
Online Dating Surges In Ireland
INDEPENDENT – Oct 17 - Online dating is becoming the norm for young singles in Ireland. Jill McGrath, managing director of Maybefriends.com, tells me how over the last year she has seen a tremendous growth in the 28–35 age group — and how it is now the largest age group on the site. "The site database has grown by 30% since January of this year, with the younger age group making up ~53% of this growth. While Ireland is not quite at US and UK levels yet, where it is almost mandatory for singles to be on a dating site, Jill believes we will be there within the next 18 months or so. FULL ARTICLE @ INDEPENDENTMark Brooks: Maybefriends competes with Anotherfriend for pole position for the top Irish paid dating site.
There Aren’t Enough Gays In UK
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