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Category: Cupid plc (formerly Easydate)
Cineworld Partners With Easydate
MARKETING MAGAZINE – Mar 25 - Cineworld, the cinema chain, is partnering with EasyDate, to form a new online dating service called Back Row Dating. Cineworld currently operates in around 75 locations through the UK, opening its first screen in 1996. FULL ARTICLE @ MARKETING MAGAZINE
EasyDate Expects £20 Million Revenue This Year
REAL BUSINESS – Mar 3 - EasyDate, Max Polyakov’s business, boasts over 7M members across a range of websites, and it’s growing fast – 1.5M new members signed up in the second half of 2009 alone. According to Bill Dobbie, the company’s chairman, the company recorded £2.8M in profit on a £12M turnover in its last accounts, and expects turnover to ~ £20M this year. EasyDate – under its various brand names of DateTheUK.com, BeNaughty.com, Cupid.com, Canoodle.com and SpeedDater events – is now present and growing in Australia, India, Ireland, South America, and the US. “We’re also looking to move into France, Germany and Spain, and to really grow our American business significantly,” adds Polyakov. The next step is for the company to raise more capital, which will help them expand their operations.
The full article was originally published at Real Business, but is no longer available.
This is the news for February 10th through February 15th, 2010. Here is the news we covered:
- Visits to dating sites showing a general decline
- PlentyofFish vs. Match.com
- Mobile Dating and Virtual Goods are big business
- Online Dating is becoming commonplace
- Meetic has posted 2009 revenues
- Match.com and Meetic partner in Latin America
- Match.com joins forces with Neu.de
- New ad campaign for Match directly targets women
- Easydate and Dating Factory partner up
- IMVU teams up with Zoosk
- Avid Life Media and Friend Finder Networks shelve IPOs
- Matchmaking industry going strong
EasyDate Looking To Raise Cash As Well As Heart-rates
SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY – Feb 14 – An online dating company is considering a flotation as it looks to raise £10M for acquisitions in Europe. EasyDate, chaired by technology entrepreneur Bill Dobbie, is operating in one of the fastest growing sectors of the economy. Dobbie and CEO Max Polyakov are talking to brokers and other advisers, including KPMG and McGrigors, in Scotland and London about raising finance by the early summer. Targets have been identified, mainly in France, but also in the US where the firm already has a 50:50 joint venture. EasyDate was launched in 2002 and last year entered the Deloitte Fast 50 with a five-year growth rate of 1,063% and average monthly revenue growth of 7% in 2009. FULL ARTICLE @ SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY
Easydate Ltd And Dating Factory Partner
PR WEB – Feb 8 – Easydate owns one of the top ten UK dating brands BeNaughty.com, and with this partnership can now address the German, French Spanish and Italian speaking markets using Dating Factory’s white label dating platform. Datingfactory.com offers a multi lingual / multi cultural platform to open the door into Europe for major dating brands and general webmasters without them having to invest in multilingual staff, infrastructure and ongoing maintenance. FULL ARTICLE @ PR WEB
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Internet Dating Industry Weekly News Oct 29th, 2009 – 6 mins
This is the news for the week of October 23rd through October 29th, 2009. We hope you enjoy the new weekly news format. Here is the news we covered for this week:
- Match.com 3Q Quarter Earnings
- EasyDate makes Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 list in the U.K.
- FriendFinder may look to sell some of its sites
- Latest European online dating rankings from comScore and Nielsen
1,000% Revenue Growth Puts EasyDate In Deloitte Fast 50
PRESS RELEASE – Oct 27 - EasyDate has been honoured with a place on the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 list as one of the fifty fastest growing technology companies in the UK. With a 1062% growth in revenues from 2004 to 2008, EasyDate. has become one of the market leaders in its sector within the U.K. FULL ARTICLE @ SOURCEWIRE
Mark Brooks: EasyDate came in at no.30.
EasyDate Offers 100% Revenue Share
EASY DATE — Feb 18 — UK dating company EasyDate offers 100% revenue share for the next 3 month. If you generate 5000 registrations per month you get 100% of the revenue for the next 6 months. If you generate 10,000, you get 100% revenue for a whole year!
Thrifty Singles Embrace Online Dating
FORBES — Feb 13 – Last month, traffic on Match.com's U.K. site grew 17%, from last year. EasyDate.biz, the parent company of online dating websites BeNaughty.com and DateTheUK.com, posted a 112% increase in sales this month from February last year. "We are currently experiencing massive growth in sales and membership levels are exceeding our projections. Month-on-month we are seeing an overall growth of 20%," said Easydate.biz Chief Executive Max Polyakov. FULL ARTICLE @ FORBES
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