WASHINGTON POST — May 29 — The explosion of online dating sites has gotten overwhelming. But some new companies are trying to streamline the process of searching for singles by culling profiles from different sites into one central Web portal. Industry folks call it "online dating aggregation," but James Nord, founder of one such company, called Rubixx, compares its service to companies such as CheapFlights.com or Kayak where users log on, search for flights, are fed potential options from various providers and click through to the airline's site to purchase. Rubixx works similarly by feeding daters' profiles of potential matches who fit their basic requirement from a variety of dating sites. FULL ARTICLE @ WASHINGTON POST
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Immigrants’ Children Seeking Similar Partners
WASHINGTON POST — May 13 — Although interracial marriages overall have increased, the rate of Hispanics and Asians marrying partners of other races fell from 27% to 20% for Hispanics and 42% to 33% for Asians from 1990 to 2000, according to Ohio State University sociologist Zhenchao Qian, who co-authored a study on the subject. Increasingly, singles are turning to a growing number of niche dating sites on the Internet, such as Shaadi.com and Persiansingles.com.
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Shared Qualities For A Successful Relationship
WASHINGTON
POST — Apr 24 — The Washington Post recently conducted an interview with
psychologist Gian Gonzaga, lead researcher inside eHarmony Labs, the online
dating service’s think tank. Gonzaga stated that the core qualities partners
should share if they want their love to last are primarily personality traits,
such as temperament, openness to experience, how introverted or extroverted
each person is, etc. He also stated that the literature does not support the
adage "Opposites attract", and claims that after running the numbers, eHarmony
is responsible for 236 people getting married each day, or 44,000 couples a
year. FULL ARTICLE @ WASHINGTON POST
Online Dating And Deception
WASHINGTON POST — Apr 10 — Joe Tracy, editor of Online Dating Magazine, says people often misrepresent themselves in dating profiles. Men lie about age, height and income; women are most likely to stretch the truth about weight, physical appearance and age. TRUE was one of the first dating sites to try to combat the problem. Subscribers are required to attest that they are unmarried and have no record of felonies. FULL ARTICLE @ WASHINGTON POST
Fox’s ‘Plus-Size’ Dating Show
WASHINGTON POST — — Mar 31 – A dating series featuring "plus-size" men and women will
air on Fox Broadcasting later this year. "More to Love" will show an
average single guy "with a big waist and an even bigger heart" choosing
among several "confident and secure plus-size women." FULL ARTICLE @ WASHINGTON POST
Mobile Dating
WASHINGTON POST – Mar 27 — Skout, changed its business model and joined a growing wave of firms trying to turn smart phones into dating devices. Right now the service is free, but the company will soon charge a $5 to $10 monthly subscription. A January report by Juniper Research predicts the market for mobile dating and chatrooms will grow to nearly $1.4 billion by 2013. "I see usage going through the roof because it's no longer a compromised experience," says Mark Brooks, a consultant to the online dating industry. FULL ARTICLE @ WASHINGTON POST
More Young Adults Are Seeking Partners Of The Same Ethnicity
WASHINGTON POST — Mar 8 — Sociologists and demographers are just beginning to study how the children of immigrants who have flowed into the country in recent years will date and marry. Although interracial marriages overall have increased, the rate of Hispanics and Asians marrying partners of other races declined in the past two decades. The rate fell from 27 to 20% for Hispanics and 42 to 33% for Asians. Singles are turning to a growing number of niche dating sites such as Shaadi.com and Persiansingles.com. FULL ARTICLE @ WASHINGTON POST
Social Networks Provide New Ways To Meet Potential Dates
WASHINGTON POST — Mar 6 — "Social dating" is the industry term for connecting people on social networks. The apps' growth has been pretty phenomenal. Zoosk, is adding 100,000 users a day, according to co-founder Shayan Zadeh, and recently hit the 20m user mark. A rival service, Are You Interested, powered by Snap Interactive, said its ad-generated revenue topped $1m in the Q4 '08 and has more than 16m users. FULL ARTICLE @ WASHINGTON POST
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Watch The Mullet Sparks Fly
WASHINGTON POST — Nov 7 — MulletPassions.com is a dating site for a man with a mullet and women who wants a man with a mullet. MulletPassions is just the extreme end of the blossoming world of niche online dating sites. MulletPassions is just one of more than 100 niche sites run by Passions Network, an umbrella company with online social networks for yoga lovers, atheists, truckers and vegans. FULL ARTICLE @ WASHINGTON POST
Mark Brooks: WhiteLabelDating.com serves similar small niches. Case in point, maturegolfers.com and singlefifties.com. (Full Disclosure: WLD is a client of Courtland Brooks)
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Finding Love Is Still Worth The Investment
WASHINGTON POST — Sep 24 — Today an estimated 120,000 marriages a year
result from Internet matches, according to Online Dating Magazine. The population of U.S. singles 15 and older (the Census
Bureau’s age cutoff) grew to 119.9m in 2007 from 100.9m
in 2000 and 86.8m in 1990, according to census data. The U.S.
online dating market totaled $649m in revenue in 2006, according
to Jupiter Research, and is expected to reach $932m by 2011. Economists say it’s not that people are spending more on dating,
they’re just willing to spend it differently. "Before they were
spending money in bars " says
Emir Kamenica of the University of Chicago. Now, he says, at least some
of that money goes to dating services. FULL ARTICLE @ WASHINGTON POST