This is the news for the week of September 26th through October 2nd, 2009. We hope you enjoy the new weekly news format. Here is the news we covered for this week:
- comScore numbers from iDate London as the first bullet point
- CourgarLife versus ABC’s “Cougar Town”
- Men’s Health and Cosmopolitan magazines teaming up to launch dating sites
- Online Buddies acquires DList.com
- Interview with Michael Norton of Harvard Business School
COUGARLIFE – Sep 30 – CougarLife.com worked with ABC to produce a commercial that all parties agreed would fit best with the new show Cougar Town. However, after the commercial was produced and presented to ABC for broadcast, Claudia Openkelder, founder of CougarLife, was told that the Network Managers now had a problem with the site itself. Cougarlife.com is a dating site specifically for mature women who are interested in dating younger men. Ms. Openkelder has asked all women to boycott ABC’s new television series, Cougar Town, for what she calls sexist discrimination.
Mark Brooks: This niche will experience a major boom with the introduction of Cougar Town. Courtland Brooks just started working with Dateacougar.com.