Category: FirstMet

SNAP Interactive Reports 79% Increase In Revenue

Posted on January 26, 2010

Snapinteractive logo MARKETWIRE – Jan 26 - SNAP Interactive, a provider of online dating apps for social networks, has experienced an increase in gross receipts since transitioning to a premium subscription model on its 'Are You Interested?' brand in late 2009.

–  $5.6 million + Annual Revenue Run Rate Based on December 2009 Gross Receipts   

—  Annual Run Rate Increases More than 79% over Pre-subscription Revenue Run Rate

The full article was originally published at Marketwire, but is no longer available.

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Mobile Dating On The Rise

Posted on December 14, 2009

Mobile-dating1 LONDON EVENING STANDARD – Dec 14 - 15M people in Britain are single, and ~5M are shopping for love online. The next dating revolution is happening in your pocket and it's all about location. Soon, Apple's iPhone and other touchscreen mobile devices will replace PCs as the main way we engage with social media. In 2007 the global mobile dating market was pegged at £200M, that figure rose to £332M worldwide in 2008 and is expected to more than double over the next five years, reaching ~£784M by 2013. Grindr, which launched in March this year, is presently most popular in San Francisco, with its dense concentration of gay men and iPhone customers, but gained more than 30,000 British users. GPS-enabled dating apps aimed exclusively at the straight market have just arrived, StreetSpark, Skout and Are You Interested being some of the latest.

The full article was originally published at London Evening Standard, but is no longer available.

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Internet Dating Industry Weekly News Nov 19th, 2009 – 4 mins

Posted on November 20, 2009

This is the news for the week of November 13th through November 19th, 2009. Here is the news we covered for this week:

  • Earnings reports from SNAP Interactive
  • October European Online Dating Rankings from Nielsen
  • Cougar craze in full swing in Europe and North America
  • eHarmony's marriage claims under scrutiny

Are You Interested? iPhone Dating App Unveils Live Chat For Singles

Posted on November 19, 2009

Areyouinterested logo MARKETWIRE – Nov 18 - SNAP Interactive launches a new GPS-based chat feature on its Are You Interested? iPhone mobile dating app. The chat functionality enables singles to communicate with other singles through their iPhone in real time in their choice of chat rooms, which are broken down by age range and other categories including sexual orientation. Additionally, singles have the ability to identify users that are nearby and initiate private chat conversations with a specific user.

The full article was originally published at Marketwire, but is no longer available.

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Internet Dating Industry Weekly News Oct 23rd, 2009 – 3.5 mins

Posted on October 22, 2009

This is the news for October 18th through October 23rd, 2009. Here are some of the topics we covered for this week:

  • People Media ranked on Deloitte’s prestigious Technology Fast 500 list
  • Zoosk’s member base surpasses 40 million users
  • Newly-launched eLove.com fuses online dating and traditional matchmaking
  • AARP partners with Perfectmach relationship expert Dr. Pepper Schwartz
  • Australia’s Cupid Media rejecting 3,000 profiles a day due to fraud suspicions

Radar Love

Posted on September 18, 2009
Location dating THE GLOBE AND MAIL – Sep 18 - Mobile dating apps such as Skout and Are You Interested let users download software onto their phones that alerts them when a potential match is within a few hundred metres. The pioneer of GPS dating was Lovegety, which originated in Japan in 1998 and notified users if a match was nearby by vibrating their cellphones. Lovegety inspired Bluedating, spontaneous matchmaking via Bluetooth. Soon after came “geosocial” networking services such as Loopt and Brightkite.com, which allow people to keep track of friends and explore social communities around their favourite venues. Even though the apps are all explicitly opt-in, they've raised safety concerns. With stalker risks in mind, most will only reveal the distance between users, not their exact location. They also let users block others if they become pesky.

The full article was originally published at Globe and Mail, but is no longer available.

Mark Brooks: It will take a major iDating site to integrate LBS before Location Based Dating will really take off.

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Internet Dating Industry Weekly News – 4 Mins

Posted on May 11, 2009

Online Personals Watch Weekly News Summary, May 11th, 2009

Site launches, BharatMatrimony expansion into new markets and religions, Userplane demise, CrazyBlindDate to be integrated into OkCupid, prison dating, Wealthy Men on reality TV.

SNAP Launches AreYouInterested.com Online Dating Website

Posted on May 6, 2009

Areyouinterested logo PRESS RELEASE — May 4 — SNAP Interactive announced the beta launch of AreYouInterested.com,
a stand-alone online dating website incorporating a Facebook Connect
integration. Users can login to
AreYouInterested.com with their Facebook identity and allow the site to
access the member's existing Facebook profile information. FULL ARTICLE @ EMEDIA WORLD

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