WEBWIRE – Sep 18 – Roman Kirsanov, head of brand management at NSI Holdings Ltd, will speak on brand and portfolio management for driving growth in online dating. Roman develops dating brands such as Cupid.com, LoveAgain.com, UniformDating.com, SpeedDater.co.uk, and will share insights on activities that engage audiences online.
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Cosmopolitan And Men’s Health Launch Date Night
PRESS RELEASE – Oct 20 - ‘The Cosmopolitan and Men’s Health Date Night’ is a brand extension of each of the publication’s respective dating sites. The first Date Night will take today (21st October) at Studio Valbonne in London. SpeedDater, the singles events company, is running the event on behalf of the two brands. If successful, the plan is to roll the date nights out across the country next year. Part of the EasyDate group of companies, SpeedDater is running ~70 events each month across the UK and Ireland.
Mark Brooks: White Label Dating serves cosmopolitan.co.uk/dating for Natmags.
BodyWorlds Offers Speed Dating In The UK
OPW — Feb 9 — A special Valentines speed dating event which will be held at The O2 Body Worlds Exhibition, with half the proceeds going to Heart UK. The ticket price of £20 includes entry into Body Worlds & The Mirror of Time exhibition at the O2, a glass of champagne on arrival and the chance to find a soul-mate while speed dating. More info here at SpeedDater.
Recession Boosts Online Dating
TELEGRAPH.CO.UK — Jan 5 — Match.com reported pre-tax profit of £3.67m in the year to 12/31/07, compared with a loss of £2.19m a year before. Last year, total revenue for Match worldwide rose 12% to $348.7m (£240m) and operating income rose 13% to $65.8m. The international growth was driven by the UK and Scandinavia. British dating sites in general are seeing a rise in members despite the credit crunch. Nielsen Online indicate a 15% rise in unique users visiting online dating sites in Nov compared with the same month last year. Match and EasyDate, which owns the SpeedDater, DatetheUK and BeNaughty brands, say they have seen some of their best days of trading since the collapse of Lehman Brothers ramped up global financial turmoil in September. Ross Williams, founder and chairman of WhiteLabelDating.com, says its database of members has grown by 250% to over 1m in the UK, and overall annualised revenues have increased by 450% to over £12m in the past 12 months as the dating sector booms in the economic gloom. Mark Brooks, an internet dating analyst, says: "The entire industry, with the exception of more marginal traditional matchmakers, is doing better despite the downturn." FULL ARTICLE @ TELEGRAPH.CO.UK
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Lonely Log On To Find Love In A Cold Climate
THE INDEPENDENT — Dec 14 — Membership is booming at internet dating sites as the credit crunch and impending recession bring a rush to find a partner to share the pain. Companies such as Match.com and EasyDate, which owns the SpeedDater, DatetheUK and BeNaughty brands, say they have seen some of their best days trading ever. Match says it has experienced its 10 biggest days in terms of visitors in the past year, and three of those have been in the past few months. EasyDate says its sites have seen growth 10% above average since the beginning of September. DatingDirect hit 5m registered users five weeks ago. Nielsen Online indicate an 18% rise in unique users visiting internet dating sites between September and October, although that follows a 14% decline in the previous month. According to Jupiter Research, the industry will grow from 2.8m paid users in Europe in 2006 to about 6m by 2011. Over that period, revenues from British dating sites, will increase from €85m last year to €147.3m. Industry expert Mark Brooks says only four or five internet dating sites worldwide make serious money and that the growth in online dating is likely to slow in the UK next year as the market begins to reach maturity. FULL ARTICLE @ THE INDEPENDENT
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EasyDate Acquired SpeedDater
EASY DATE — Mar 12 — Edinburgh based EasyDate Ltd. and speed dating company, SpeedDater have merged. The acquisition of Speed Dater by EasyDate was the result of a lengthy one year courtship and was completed on 7th March 2008. The Speed Dating Events and Online business is now under the full ownership of EasyDate and the ex-directors of SpeedDater are now concentrating on their travel business Speed Breaks.
Speed Dating For Sugar Daddies
PRESS RELEASE — Nov 16 — UK based single events company, SpeedDater, is launching Purple Sky Clubetquot (see Purple Sky Club) to introduce young girls to highly successful entrepreneurs and millionaires. The first event will be on Dec 7th. Girls have to apply by email with three recent photos. 50 girls will be chosen and invited to attend the party at the secret penthouse location.
The full article was originally published at Bourso News, but is no longer available.
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SpeedDater Goes Mobile
NETIMPERATIVE — Apr 18 — UK dating brand SpeedDater has launched a new mobile dating service, in partnership with mobile media firm Enpocket. SpeedDater Mobile enables singles to search for dates on their mobiles by inputting their own profile and picture, then viewing other user profiles via their phone. Users can also send and receive chat requests to have conversations with other members.
Mark Brooks: Speeddater has a funky 'design your fream date' feature. Unique, but I couldn't find the design for a lady I liked.