Category: Grindr

No Dating App Has More Engagement Than Grindr

Posted on February 15, 2017

YAHOO! FINANCE – Feb 14 – According to a new study from research firm 7Park Data, Grindr users spend an average of 165 minutes, or 2.75 hours, a week inside the app, far surpassing Badoo and Tinder, with users on average spending 68 minutes and 55 minutes a week using those apps, respectively. Still, Tinder remains the overall winner when it comes to user base. Tinder had 50M users when the company last reported user base statistics back in 2014.

Dating app engagement graphby JP Mangalindan
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Tinder Is Popular In Socially Conservative Egypt

Posted on February 9, 2017

Dating apps in egyptVOCATIV – Feb 9 – Despite the online dating stigma, in recent years Tinder and dating sites like OkCupid have become increasingly popular among upper – and middle – class Egyptians in Cairo, Egypt's capital of ~20M people. Traditionally in Egypt sexual relations outside of marriage are taboo – in fact, any dating that happens is generally short and geared towards getting engaged. In 2014 Egypt's top Islamic authority issued a religious ruling prohibiting the use of online dating. Grindr has warned users in Egypt that police may be posing as users to entrap them and arrest them. "I am not pro this [dating apps and websites] if it's not about serious commitment to marriage," said the well-known Egyptian sexologist and TV show host Heba Kotb, who is popular for her conservative, though sometimes controversial, opinions on sex and religion.

by Miriam Berger
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Grindr Sued Over Alleged Murder

Posted on January 30, 2017

LawsuitTMZ – Jan 30 – Matthew Herrick, a Grindr user claims the app is being run recklessly and as a result someone actually tried to rape and murder him, although the lawsuit is thin on specifics regarding the 2 allegations. Although the suit cites no specific instance of attempted rape and murder, it does offer up several examples of aggressive men coming to his home and workplace. Herrick says he lodged 50 complaints to Grindr and 14 police reports, to no avail.

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Dating Apps Should Display Warnings About Rape, Thinks One UK Lawmaker

Posted on January 20, 2017

Grindr-LondonTOWLEROAD – Jan 20 – One of Manchester's Councillors, former Member of Parliament John Leech, is demanding that dating apps such as Grindr and Tinder will include safety notices to help prevent the troubling number of criminal incidents connected to their use. ~500 criminal incidents across the United Kingdom, including murder, rape and child abuse, 162 of which are listed as sexual offenses, have been linked to both Grindr and Tinder.

by Luis Damian Veron
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Consumer Reports Survey: Online Dating Is Frustrating, But Produce Long-Term Results

Posted on January 11, 2017

PRWEB – Jan 11 – According to the recent Consumer Reports (CR) survey, 44% of survey respondents who tried online dating said the experience led to a serious long-term relationship or marriage. CR surveyed ~115k people. They were also asked to rate sites and apps based on overall satisfaction. OkCupid, Tinder and Grindr received marginally higher ratings than paid sites. Here is the rating result.

Consumer reports tab1As you can see people are highly frustrated. They gave online dating sites the lowest satisfaction scores Consumer Reports has ever seen for services rendered—lower even than for tech-support providers, notoriously poor performers in CR ratings.

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How The iPhone Revolutionized Mobile Dating

Posted on January 9, 2017

IphonesMASHABLE – Jan 9 – It's been 10 years since the first iPhone was revealed to the public on Jan. 7, 2007. The launch of Grindr in 2009 and Tinder in 2012 brought location-based dating mainstream. Swiping is now entirely synonymous with mobile dating; and, according to Tinder's co-founder Jonathan Badeen, it's all because of the iPhone. Jack Knowles, founder of dating app Temptr, says that prior to the iPhone's launch, online dating was considered shameful, because it was not yet mainstream. 2016 statistics revealed that 1 in 3 18-to-24-year-olds report having used online dating; triple the number of young adults using online dating two years previous.

by Rachel Thompson
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Mark Brooks: The shift to mobile is a media shift that was long overdue. The writing was on the wall back in 2006.  But the apps sucked, the infrastructure sucked, early apps had to deal with 100+ different phones on so many carrier platforms that were unduly complicated. This was the great opportunity that Apple saw, and conquered, and Google copied. The big question for the dating industry now is, what's next. Just what media shift might happen next? I'm watching my 7-8 year old kids for signs of what they're drawn to. I think we'll see AR/VR and wearables rise to revolutionize our industry once more, in about ten years.  

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Tinder And Grindr Linked To ~500 Crimes In The UK

Posted on January 2, 2017

Tinder-app-logoMIRROR.CO.UK – Dec 31 – Police have linked ~500 crimes to the use of dating apps Tinder and Grindr in the past 5 years, including murder, rape and child abuse. Almost a third of these were sexual offences.

by Jack Blanchard
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Foreign Office Warns Gay Tourists About Dangers Of Grindr Abroad

Posted on December 21, 2016

Grindr logo new dec 13PINK NEWS – Dec 21 – The UK Foreign Office has updated its guidance for LGBT tourists to warn about the dangers of using Grindr abroad. It now warns: "If you intend to visit cruising areas or use a dating app, find out about the local situation and take sensible precautions if you meet someone." It has been alleged that police in Egypt were exploiting Grindr and other dating sites to hunt members of the gay community, as part of a crackdown on homosexuality. Grindr took the step of directly warning users to be cautious. Channel 4 documentary Hunted also documented anti-gay vigilantes in Russia using hook-up apps to lure gay men to flats, where they would be attacked or sexually assaulted.

by Nick Duffy
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Survey Finds That The Average Online Profile Picture Is 2 Years Old

Posted on December 20, 2016

Profiles picKNOWTECHIE – Dec 20 – A new survey conducted by www.bidvine.com asked 2k British social media and online dating users just how up-to-date their profile pictures were, with surprising results. Dating sites seemed to be the least up-to-date when it came to profile pictures, with POF users keeping the same profile picture for 3.2 years and Match.com users on average waiting 4 years to change their picture.

  1. Grindr – 2 weeks
  2. Tinder – 3 weeks
  3. WhatsApp – 2.5 months
  4. Facebook – 5 months
  5. Instagram – 6 months
  6. SnapChat – 8 months
  7. Twitter – 1.8 years
  8. LinkedIn – 2.1 years
  9. Plenty of Fish – 3.2 years
  10. Match.com – 4 years

11% of those polled admitted that the pictures used for their online profiles were taken more than 10 years ago.

by Chris Smith
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Grindr Is Connected To A Serial Killer

Posted on December 1, 2016

Dating apps iconsHEATST.COM – Nov 30 – Gay dating app Grindr finds itself entwined in an unpleasant killing spree thanks to one of its users. Stephen Port – the "Grindr Serial Killer" as he is now known in the UK – has just been sentenced to life without parole after being found guilty of the murders of four young men in London in 2014 and 2015. As a result of Port's conviction, police are looking into 58 more suspicious deaths linked to sex drugs. After Port's arrest, several men came forward to testify that they had been drugged, or nearly drugged, by him. It is noteworthy that none of the men who survived meeting Port appeared to have complained to the police or Grindr about their negative experiences.

by Paul T. Horgan
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