PRESS RELEASE – Sep 21 - Grindr, the all-male mobile location-based networking service, has reached yet another milestone as its member ranks swell to more than one million. Since launching only eighteen months ago in March 2009, Grindr has become a global sensation. In the US, Grindr has ~500K users. Meanwhile, in the United Kingdom and Australia, ~150,000 and ~100,000 users respectively have joined Grindr . On a daily basis, Grindr counts ~250K active users who log on eight times per day and spend an average of 1.3 hours each day using the app. FULL ARTICLE @ PR NEWSWIRE
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The New Dating Tools: A Card And A Wink
NY TIMES – July 21 – Unlike traditional dating sites where members spend hours on computers writing profiles and scrutinizing photographs, a raft of newfangled dating tools are striving to better bridge the gap between online and real-world romance. Ms. Cheek, an architect, founded one such venture, Cheek’d, which had its debut in May. Users receive calling cards to dole out to alluring strangers they encounter in their everyday lives, be it in a club or in a subway on their morning commute. Recipients of the cards can use the identification code printed on them to log onto Cheekd.com and send a message to their admirer. Cheek’d is not the only new company integrating calling cards and the Internet. Inspired by their own love story, Rachel and John DeAlto, 30 and 33, founded FlipMe!, which was introduced a few weeks ago and works similarly to Cheek’d. Card users said companies like FlipMe! and Cheek’d are emboldening them to approach people who might otherwise have been missed connections. Other companies are helping singles connect through location-based technology on their mobile phones. In the last few years the number of Web sites and apps like Grindr, Are You Interested? and Urban Signals, has swelled. One of the biggest is the free iPhone dating application Skout, which recently surpassed its millionth member.
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Grindr iPhone App Gets Update For Heterosexuals
GUARDIAN.CO.UK – July 4 – Grindr brought gay men together via the iPhone. Grindr 2.0 will aim at the straight sex market Grindr is the brainchild of Joel Simkhai. It took him six months and $5,000 to build Grindr, with the help of a Danish app developer and a friend who was an expert in branding, marketing and design. The rapid success of Grindr is prompting Simkhai to launch a straight version. "This notion of: 'Who is around me? Who is in this room now? Who else is like me?' – this is not just a gay thing. Gay men don't have the monopoly on loneliness and isolation." He says he gets more requests for this from women than from straight men. FULL ARTICLE @ GUARDIAN.CO.UK
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Gay Men Meet Up Through Grindr App For iPhone
SF GATE – Mar 19 – Gays are "grinding," the latest verb in the gay lexicon, which refers to the new gay dating app for the iPhone called Grindr. It uses GPS technology to download hundreds of pictures of available men within walking distance. As of this month, Grindr has 500,000 users worldwide and 2,000 more join daily. The free version of the app is supported by ads, and the $2.99 monthly ad-free version allows users to view twice the number of men – 200 – at once. FULL ARTICLE @ SF CHRONICLE
Mobile Dating On The Rise
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.
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App And Mobile Dating Market Continues To Skyrocket
CHICAGO NOW – Nov 3 – Worldwide, the mobile dating market, which included app, mobile Internet services and text-based services, has grown from $330 million in 2007 to $550 million in 2008. That figure is expected to more than double to $1.3 billion by 2013, according to Juniper Research. Skout, SpeedDate, DateCheck, Zoosk, Grindr, Radaroo and Gelato are but a handful of offerings in this market. Traditional online dating sites are also realizing the need for a mobile dating solution. Match.com and OkCupid have made strides in this direction. Traditional online dating sites must offer a mobile solution in order to remain competitive.
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