FORBES – Feb 14 – Bumble app was founded by Whitney Wolfe, a member of FORBES' 30 Under 30 2017 and a cofounder of Tinder. Women have to make the first move by sending the first message after two users swipe right on each other. The app claims 12.5M registered users. They tend to be young and well-educated. The average user spends 100 minutes a day on the app. Bumble's facilitated 750M matches after two years in operation, and is responsible for 5k weddings and engagements.
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Bumble Matched 400K Friends And Raised $40K For Planned Parenthood
MASHABLE – Jan 30 – Bumble BFF, the friendfinder side of Bumble, the female friendly dating app, donated 10 cents for every mate match they made. It was done as part of a 12-hour campaign, and in that time there were 438,790 BFF matches.
2017 iDate Awards Winners
OPW – Jan 26 - The 2017 iDate Awards winners were announced and provided trophies at a ceremony last night in Miami. The iDate Awards are the dating industry's most recognized awards, highlighting the best and most innovative aspects of the business.
The 2017 winners are:
Best Affiliate Program:
Wamba & Mamba.ru
Best Niche Dating Site:
Christian Filipina
Best Dating Coach:
Julie Spira
Best Payment System:
CCBill
Best Dating Site:
Match.com
Best Product Design:
Dating Pro
Best Marketing Campaign:
eHarmony
Best Software & Saas:
Dating Pro
Best Matchmaker:
Andrea Messent (Drawing Down the Moon)
Best Up & Coming Dating Site:
Lively
Best Mobile Dating App:
Bumble
Most Innovative Company:
eHarmony
Best New Technology:
Smart Match App
Bumble Is Launching Video Stories
TECH CRUNCH – Jan 10 – Bumble is releasing BumbleVID, a feature which will allow users to record 10-second videos directly within Bumble, which will disappear after 24 hours. Users can also add pre-recorded videos, but only ones taken in the last 24 hours.
Bumble Vs Tinder
TECH CRUNCH – Jan 3 – Now that Bumble is just about two years ago, we can start looking back and comparing it to where Tinder was at its two year birthday. Back in 2014 Tinder was expanding beyond college campuses and set on becoming dating app for all. Two years in the company was seeing a billion swipes a day, and matching ~12M people a day. On average, active users were spending ~90 minutes per day in the app. Bumble, on the other hand, reported that just 18 months after inception users were spending ~100 minutes a day in the app. And two years after launching, the company is matching ~4M people a day and seeing ~220M swipes per day. Swipe-based dating apps are much more common than they were two years ago. There is much more competition, and when Tinder was young it was one of the only app-based dating platforms in the space.
by Fitz Tepper
See full article at Tech Crunch
Bumble Invests In Gay Dating App Chappy
TECH CRUNCH – Dec 14 – Bumble, the dating app that puts women in the driver's seat, has invested in gay dating app Chappy. The details were not disclosed but Bumble is the sole investor in the round and will take an equity stake. In exchange, Bumble will be offering product development and marketing support. Chappy is a gay dating app based in the UK.
by Fitz Tepper
See full article at Tech Crunch
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Bumble Expands Into Career Networking With BumbleBizz
ADAGE – Nov 22 – Dating app Bumble is introducing BumbleBizz, a feature that will match users with career peers and mentors. Users will upload career-related information about themselves, and the app will harness the data to find potential contacts. If two people swipe right, they can immediately begin communicating. Users will be able to switch between three profiles within Bumble – one designed for dating, one geared at making friends (BumbleBFF) and BumbleBizz. Like the dating section of the app, within BumbleBizz, women will have the power to take initiative. When a match occurs between male and female, the woman has 24 hours to start a conversation.
Tinder’s Competitors Are Banking On Its Sleazy Image
BUSINESS INSIDER – Nov 5 – When Tinder launched in 2012, every match felt like an adrenaline rush. But those matches are no longer quite as exciting. A 2016 study looked at the user reviews of 97 dating apps and analyzed how their quality scores have changed over the past year. Tinder experienced the largest YOY decline. In a 2016 survey by Consumers' Research, 13% of Tinder users reported relationships lasting longer than one month. Its photo-based interface probably contributed to its hookup image. Apps like Bumble, Hinge, Happn, Coffee Meets Bagel, Siren, Her are not heavily photo-based. Bumble has a similar interface as Tinder, but doesn't have the reputation of being a hookup app. That's because only women can message their matches first on Bumble. Men seem to like the app because women seem to take more initiative in starting a conversation. Siren, which launched in late 2015, abandons the swipe interface entirely. It features a daily question and a feed that displays users' answers.
Bumble To Launch Business Social Network BumbleBizz
