PR NEWSWIRE – Nov 18 – Flirt.com's Android App is now available in the USA and Australia. Flirt.com's app offers:
– Location-based search
– Alerts and notifications
– Chat rooms and more
The full article was originally published at MarketWatch, but is no longer available.
PR NEWSWIRE – Nov 20 – Cupid has now expanded ClickandFlirt.com to Australia and Canada. This latest launch is in response to the success of Cupid's other brands; including BeNaughty.com, Cupid.com, GirlsDateForFree.com and Flirt.com have already seen in the Australian and Canadian markets (currently ~3M active members).
BUSINESSWIRE – Nov 18 - Cupid plc has launched two TV advertising campaigns for its Cupid.com and BeNaughty.com brands across specific ITV regions. This is the first time Cupid has delivered its brand onto the small screen indicating the company's intention to push its brands out to a wider mainstream audience.
The full article was originally published at MarketWatch, but is no longer available.
PR NEWSWIRE – Nov 14 - Cupid has completed a survey of its members that reveals what people really care about on dating profile.
The highlights of the results are as follows.
– A great profile picture is essential for 42% of men and 50% of women
– The most unattractive thing for a man (a majority of 30% agreed) in a woman's profile picture is when the picture looks too professional.
– Women don't like men with bad teeth (40% of women)
The full article was originally published at Sacramento Bee, but is no longer available.
THE MOTLEY FOOL – Nov 1 - It floated on AIM in June 2010 as Easydate. That caught the eye of easyGroup's lawyers and the company agreed to change its name to Cupid, having acquired companies of that name in the UK and US. International expansion has been boosted by recent acquisitions in Germany and Brazil. In the first half of this year, the company met its objective of earning 50% revenues from outside the UK. Revenues were nearly tripled to £25.4M, and operating profit doubled to £3.9M. The company now has ~34M members in 39 countries, but only a tiny proportion of those generate revenues. There were 460K monthly subscribers in June 2011, up from 324K last December. More than 40% of users now access the company's services through mobile devices or its Facebook app.
PR NEWSWIRE – Oct 20 - Cupid.com will be the very first online dating community to be available through the all-new HTML5-based version of Facebook. Facebook has icreated a social ecosystem, which users can download directly onto their iPhones and iPad devices and then use to select and run whichever apps they choose, directly from inside Facebook.
PR NEWSWIRE – Oct 19 - Cupid has been collecting user behaviour statistics and now has decided to share some of its learnings from the data collected. Cupid found that the growth of the received ordinary emails (members send these to one another) shows a decrease in the number of payments and revenue from male profiles without a photo. Yet at the same time the average payment increases. This is closely related to the fact that customers who start spending more time on the site spend money on more advantageous packages. Admin messages work better to attract new users to the site. The more Admin messages sent, the greater the number of payments and revenue.
THE SCOTSMAN – Sep 23 – Bill Dobbie is CEO of Cupid.com, a dating site with ~12M users and 460K paying subscribers, up from 324K in Dec '10. Dobbie has never used a dating site himself. "These things just didn't exist," he laughs – thinking back to the time when he met his wife, Leonie. The company changed its name from easyDate last year, following a tense legal wrangle with easyJet founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou. Cupid's network of sites caters for all tastes – from datingforparents.com to maturedating.com and girlsdatefree.com. benaughty.com caters mainly for a more…transient…customer.
by Jane Bradley
The full article was originally published at Scotsman, but is no longer available.
Mark Brooks: Cupid shares are doing well. Jiayuan, FriendFinder and Spark Networks shares, are not. We hope this changes. It affects the valuations of your idating companies.
INDEPENDENT – Sep 5 - The summer months are often marked by volatility on the markets. But there were winners amid the turmoil, with Cupid, which gained around 41% in the three months to the end of August, leading the way. Cupid has had a busy quarter, announcing the acquisition of two online dating business – first a deal in Germany in June, and then of one in Brazil at the end of July.
by Nikhil Kumar
See full article at Independent
THIS IS MONEY – Aug 30 – Cupid Plc, whose websites include Flirt, Be Naughty and GirlsDateforFree, has moved into markets such as Brazil, Germany and Italy and nearly tripled revenues to GBP 25.4M. UK revenues increased by 68% to GBP 11.9M, but the rapid growth overseas means these markets now account for 53% of its revenues, compared to 19% a year ago.