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News by Company – Super Useful Reference List
OPW – One of the things that makes OPW.news special is the "News By Company" historical reference list.
Online Personals Watch was started in 2004 and we have faithfully catalogued the news on hundreds of dating apps. OPW has become quite a useful historical research tool at this stage. So, I'd like to point out a little link on the sidebar of OPW that may be useful for you. If you'd like to look up a company and see their news in summary format, along with any interviews that I may have done with them over the years, please see "News By Company", on the OPW sidebar on web, or down below if you're reading OPW on mobile. Scroll all the way to the bottom of that page to see the DeadPool, as well. Let me know any questions. 😉 – mark@courtlandbrooks.com
Internet Dating Jobs Listing Update – December 2022
OPW – The new Internet dating jobs listing is live on the Internet Dating Jobs blog.
Below see a couple of this month's most interesting offers:
Bumble
Associate Art Director
Grindr
Chief Accounting Officer
Her
People & Operations Director
Hinge
Director of Product, Trust & Safety
Lovoo
Vice President Marketing
Tinder
Marketing Director, UK
To see more open positions go here.
Do you have an idating industry job offer which is not included? Please, send it to tips@onlinepersonalswatch.com and we will add it to the list.
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IDEA SUMMIT Europe, in Paris @happn
OPW – IDEA SUMMIT Paris was a wonderful learning, sharing, and connecting experience for leaders in the online dating industry. Participants included the CEOs of happn, The Meet Group, Jaumo, Pembe Panjur, Salt, Online Personals Group, Smitten, Noii, NUiT, Icony, Feels, Fitafy, Planet Theta, Koko, and Reddi. Also the VP Of Biz Dev for Match Europe and the Founder/CMO of Planet Theta.
Joel Simkhai Wants to Make a Better Grindr With His New App Motto
NBC NEWS – Joel Simkhai helped launch Grindr in 2009. Grindr piloted geolocation to show users' distance from one another, fundamentally changing queer culture. It brought millions of people together in ways that gay bars – the longtime focal points of LGBTQ social scenes – simply couldn't. But some say it worsened the physical and racial discrimination that has long plagued the gay community. Now, more than a decade later, he wants a do-over in the hope of "course-correct" and avoiding the pitfalls of existing apps. Simkhai launched a queer dating and hookup app this month in New York City called Motto, which he says has innovative features to help prevent toxicity and discrimination. Motto requires users to have face pictures instead of "headless torsos" and limits time spent on the app by serving users ten profiles a day. The app also requires a verification process for every user.
A New Use for Dating Apps: STIs Contact Tracing
CBS NEWS – Heather Meador and Anna Herber-Downey are both public health nurses employed by Linn County Public Health in eastern Iowa. They've learned that dating apps are the most efficient way to inform users that people they previously met on the sites may have exposed them to sexually transmitted infections. They got approval from their bosses at the local level to build profiles on dating apps, through which they can contact the sex partners of infected people.
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