Category: SeekingArrangement

Brandon Wade, A Never-Been-Kissed Nerd, Built A ‘Sugar Baby’ Empire

Posted on March 29, 2014

Seeking arrangement brandon wade plus wifeBUSINESS INSIDER – Mar 27 – Brandon Wade has built SeekingArrangement.com, a dating site for "generous" men who are OK with paying for dates, and the women who are happy to accept the money. He's also a master of PR and word-of-mouth marketing. Last September Wade started Carrot Dating, a mobile app that requires men to offer bribes to women for dates. "In the very beginning I was a very lonely, shy and socially inept child", said Wade. "My mother told me to study very hard so I would be successful and rich which would make dating easier."

by Jim Edwards
See full article at Business Insider

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CarrotDating.com’s Founder Was Inspired By His Mother

Posted on March 4, 2014

Carrot-dating-webDIG MAGAZINE – Mar 3 – Launched in October 2013, CarrotDating.com is a site and an app for people who use bribery to score first dates. Brandon Wade, the site's founder, was inspired by his mother’s suggestion to finding true romance by gift-giving. Wade’s mother is of Chinese descent. In the Asian culture, gift-giving is a widely accepted practice. Wade is also the founder of SeekingArrangement.com, a sugar daddy dating site; SeekingMillionaire.com, a millionaire matchmaking website; and WhatsYourPrice.com, where singles bid for first dates.

by Megan Hofileña
The full article was originally published at Dig Magazine, but is no longer available.

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Sugar Daddy Dating Site Is Targeting College Students

Posted on February 10, 2014

Seeking arrangement logoNY POST – Feb 9 – “Prostitution is black and white; it’s just an exchange of sex for money,” says Angela Jacob Bermudo, PR manager for SeekingArrangement, a site where men are shelling out ~$3K a month for a sugar baby. SeekingArrangement actively pursues college-age students. They now account for 44% of total memberships and are the site’s largest demographic. The site claims 58K sugar babies. Those who are seeking straight prostitution are removed from the site.

by Tracy Motz
See full article at NY Post

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SeekingArrangement: A Form Of Legal Prostitution

Posted on January 20, 2014

NEWS9 – Jan 18 - SeekingArrangement.com is rolling out ads and promotions marketed towards college students. They make up 42% of "sugar baby" membership. Website creators admit, eventually sex probably will be involved. However, it's not a requirement. That would be illegal.

by Evan Anderson
See full article at News9

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AshleyMadison And SeekingArrangement Battle Over ‘Shush’ Image

Posted on December 17, 2013

Ashleymadison screenshotENTERTAINMENT LAW DIGEST – Dec 16 - AshleyMadison.com may sue SeekingArrangement.com for using its distinctive image of a woman with her finger on her lips. Both parties are alos accusing each other of purchasing Internet advertising related to searches for the other's dating site.

by Jack Bouboushian
The full article was originally published at Entertainment Law Digest, but is no longer available.

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Anonymous Calling For The Internet Dating Industry – What Exactly Is Going On?

Posted on June 3, 2013

Anonymous callingOPW – May 28 – Anonymous calling and chat service provider offerings in the internet dating space have been a bit of mystery. PrivateCall by Phone Matrix made a strong case for anonymous calling but then faded. Jangl got off to a strong start, and then got folded into JaJah. JaJah successfully partnered with eHarmony, FriendFinder and Match. Then Match partnered instead with Twilio. ICallU is now on the scene and working with Seeking Arrangement and SugarDaddyForMe.

Dating sites' needs appear to have remained the same – their users want to communicate with one another without immediately divulging their personal information. What are telephony providers doing wrong? Could it be that the increasingly prevalence of messaging apps like WhatsApp and TextNow, combined with online daters' collective comfort with contemporary lines of communication, is diminishing the need for text- and voice-based telephony services? Let's discuss. Please comment if you have knowledge and an opinion.

(btw, Spikko are our new client, and have a solid offering on a proven platform for anonymous/private calling).

1 In 10 Online Dating Profiles Is Fake

Posted on May 10, 2013

Fake profilesNY DAILY NEWS – May 9 – A study of bogus online dating profiles reveals that most fraudsters claim to be religious and widowed. Many are also foreign, but describe themselves as Native American, mistakenly thinking it means only that they're from America. The FBI says ~$50M is stolen every year in romance scams. One in ten profiles is fake, according to research from SeekingArrangement.com, which deletes ~200 fraudulent accounts every day. CEO Brandon Wade says: “Scammers want you to trust them, and they want sympathy.” The bogus accounts are more likely to belong to a woman (71%) than a man (29%). Many fake profiles are listed in Nigeria, the Ukraine and the Philippines.

by Rheana Murray
See full article at NY Daily News

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4,000 Irish Students Seek ‘Sugar Daddies’

Posted on May 10, 2013

Seekingarrangement logoINDEPENDENT – May 10 – ~4,000 Irish students have signed up to a SeekingArrangement.com to pay their way through college. 80% of all relationships conducted through the service involved sex. 4 of the top 10 colleges using the service are based in Dublin. Overall, membership from Ireland is the seventh-largest in the world, behind the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, France and Germany.

by Nick Bramhill
See full article at Independent

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Move To Block Sugar Daddy Dating Website

Posted on March 19, 2013

Seekingarrangement logoSCOTSMAN – Mar 19 – Members of the University and College Union (UCU) will this week use their annual congress to call for a joint campaign to end what they call sexual exploitation by websites which connect female students with “benefactors”. SeekingArrangement claimed to be growing in popularity in Scotland, adding Edinburgh University to its “top 20 fastest growing sugar baby schools” in the UK. The website said there had been a 222% increase in female student sign-ups from the university since April 2012. “According to the site, the average female university student using the site receives £5K per month from their ‘benefactors’.

by Chris Marshall
See full article at Scotsman

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College ‘Sugar Babies’ Date For Cash

Posted on February 26, 2013

Sugardaddie logoCNN – Feb 26 - SeekingArrangement.com reports that female college students made up 44% of the site's total users in 2012. With tuition on the rise, that number will likely continue to climb. Men who engage in such relationships, many of whom are older and married, enjoy taking care of young women and assuming a mentor role in their lives, said Steven Pasternack, who launched Sugardaddie.com in 2002. The average monthly "allowance" sugar daddies on the site said they shell out is $3K, according to SeekingArrangement.com. Surprisingly, sex isn't a given. It's obviously on the table but there are other motivations – to go out to eat or to have someone to talk to. SeekingArrangement.com's Wade said the men who subscribe to his site are discouraged from offering money on a per-date basis to avoid operating like an escort service.

by Stephanie Goldberg
See full article at CNN

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