Mark Brooks is a business consultant to 100+ dating & social businesses since 2005 and is available to comment on online dating & social businesses and trends.
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If you’re a reporter on deadline, please email or WhatsApp Mark. The following is a list of prior quotes in the press, since 2004, on the subject of online dating & social businesses.
2026
- Reuters – Mark Brooks on the Dating App Business Model and AI’s Role in Matchmaking
- DubaiEye – What to watch for to avoid dating scams
2025
- GDI – PODCAST: Mark Brooks of IDEA (Internet Dating Excellence Association)
- The Currency – How Marketing & Gamification Derailed the Dating Industry
2024
- Cupid’s Coach Podcast – Online Dating: Its Evolution and Future
- The Guardian – Teaching Dating Skills in India
- El Periodico – ‘Bumble Fumble’: Online Dating Apps Struggle as People Swear off Swiping
- Wall Street Journal – Dating Apps’ Hidden Money-Making Strategies, Explained
- The Times – Dating Apps Aim to Ensure Users and Investors Don’t Swipe Left
2023
- Vox – Online daters love to hate on Hinge. 10 years in, it’s more popular than ever.
- Financial Times – Tinder and the old-fashioned art of matchmaking
- Marketplace – Wait, how much per swipe? Dating apps flirt with premium subscriptions
- Wall Street Journal – Dating Apps Put a Hefty Price Tag on Finding Love
2022
- MEDIA POST – In Changed Dating Game, Match Hopes to Re-Spark Tinder With a New CMO
- MEDIA POST – After ‘Tinder Swindler’ Shockwaves, Tinder Adds In-App Background Checks
2021
- AARP – 50 Free Apps for Apple and Android Phones
- Texas Monthly – How COVID-19 Transformed Match Group’s Online Dating Empire
- Damona Hoffman Podcast – Dates & Mates With Damona Hoffman & Mark Brooks (RealMe)
- Better Love Movement – How to Prioritize Your Safety With RealMe When Dating Online
- The Dating Game podcast – Dating Safety
- Wall Street Journal – Match’s Winning Formula for Online Dating in Japan Gives Women Control, Makes Men Pay
- Deal Architect – Burning Platform: Digital Nomads with Mark Brooks
- Forbes – Billionaire Ruben Vardanyan Invests in AI-Based Dating Service iris Dating
- Quartz – The complete guide to the online dating industry
2020
- Times Square Investment Journal – Match Group Super Likes New Brands Hinge and BLK To Steal Swipes From Up-and-Coming Rival Bumble
- Covering Companies – Dating App Hinge Breaks Out of Tinder’s Shadow
- TinderTales – So You Want to Date During a Pandemic
- Unqualified – Podcast, Interview With Mark Brooks
- Wall Street Journal – Can’t Actually Meet Up? Dating Apps Pivot to Video
- Quartz – Will virtual dating outlast the pandemic?
- L’Express – Confinement : les applis de rencontres se refont une santé grâce à la vidéo
- Global Dating Insights – Covering the Industry’s Biggest Trends With Expert Mark Brooks on The GDI Podcast!
2019
- Marketwatch – Good news for Sharon Stone — January is the hottest time of year for online dating
- Forbes Russia – Digital nomad: how a philosopher from Moscow made a fortune of $ 750 million on dating
- USA Today – Are you a Tinder or a Bumble type of person? The clichés of ‘big dating’
- Marketwatch – Are you considering a relationship with a co-worker? Read this before you make your move
- The Zoe Report – Facebook Dating Is Live — Here’s What Dating Coaches Think About It
- L’Express – Love on the bits: l’IA au service de l’amour
- HBS – Navigating Industry Disruption
- L’Express – Love on the bits: l’IA au service de l’amour
- BBC Radio Asian Network – Ankur Desai sits in for Mobeen: New Year, New Bae
2018
- Pheramor Blog – 4 Experts Predict Online Dating in 2024
- The Philadelphia Inquirer – This Philly dating service charged an 85-year-old widow $4,750 and gave her one option
- DatingNews.com – Online Dating Authority Mark Brooks Interviews Hundreds of Executives to Help Improve the Industry
- Visual Politik – The STORY behind TINDER
- The Wise Marketer – Four Loyalty Lessons from Behavioral Science
- Ogilvy – Nuggets of Knowledge from Nudgestock 2018
- Ogilvy – #Nudgestock2018: The psychology behind online dating
- The Street – Facebook’s New Dating Service: A Match Made in Heaven, or Hell?
- Wall Street Journal – Facebook to Launch Opt-In Dating Feature
- Forbes Russia – Casual dating: how the creator of “Mamba” was included in the Forbes list (the original article in Russian)
- Marketwatch – Even during a snow storm, this is the hottest time of year for online dating
- USA Today – He showed up at my house after I ‘met’ him on a dating app. I was freaked out
2017
- Love TV – In India Your Parents Run Your Dating Profiles to Find You Dates
- Top10Best Dating Sites – Q & A with Dating Industry Expert, Mark Brooks
- BBC – Can a chatbot help you find love?
- Financial Times – Has Brexit affected the dating scene?
- Economist – Political dating sites are hot
2016
- New York Times – For Online Dating Sites, a Bumpy Road to Love
- Crain’s New York – How to date a New Yorker
- The Guardian – Profits down for Match.com as Britons turn to free dating apps
- Chicago Tribune – The League brings invite-only dating app to Chicago
- KCBS – Radio interview with Mark Brooks
- Wall Street Journal – Dating Apps Court Older, Wealthier Users
- Mashable – Hinge abandons Tinder model in effort to be next Match.com
- MarketWatch – The Secret Sauce Behind Online Dating
- Dating Advice – Keeping It Short and Sweet: Online Personals Watch Sums Up Breaking News in Online Dating
- Marketing News – Swipe Right: How Marketers Changed Online Dating
- LA Magazine – Tinder Has an In-House Sociologist and Her Job Is to Figure Out What You Want
- Reviews.com – The Best Online Dating Sites
- Uptown1Radio – New Dating Site Offers a Hung of “Berning” Love
- IBTimes – How eHarmony Stays Relevant In The Age of Tinder And Match Group
- CNN Money – College students are Tindering for ‘friends’
- Marketwatch – This is the busiest time of year for online dating
2015
- Financial Post – Ashley Madison’s female users are pretty much non-existent, evidence shows
- Mergermarket – Match Must Use Size to Overcome Challenges Facing Public Dating Services – Sources
- Reuters – Ashley Madison founder emails leaked in new data dump
- Institutional Investor – IAC Looks for Love in PlentyOfFish
- Marketwatch – Sorry, Tinder, but most online daters are liars
- Institutional Investor – Why Online Dating Has a Hard Time Hooking Up with Venture Capital
- The Hollywood Reporter – A Drunk Screenwriter, Actor Wannabes and a Petty Thief: Hollywood’s True Tales of Online Dating Nightmares
- Financial Post – Ashley Madison hack a cautionary tale in the digital hookup world: ‘They’ve failed at a key value’
- Marketwatch /WSJ – Ashley Madison may have to kiss its IPO goodbye
- Standard.co.uk – Adultery website Ashley Madison ‘may have to scrap £130m London flotation’ after hackers access database
- Marketwatch /WSJ – Why America’s dating sites are hooking up with each other
- Bloomberg – How One Company Owns Your Entire Dating Life
- Wall Street Journal – IAC/InterActive Plans an IPO for Its Matchmaking Business
- Wall Street Journal – The Dating Business: Love on the Rocks
- TheStreet – True Love May Take IAC Stock Past $80 With Tinder Plus App
- MarketWatch /WSJ – Would you buy shares in an adultery website?
- NY Times – Start-Up Blends Old-Fashioned Matchmaking and Algorithms
- Washington Post – Online dating precautions: Meet two police officers who followed them
- La Tercera – 20 años de citas en un clic
- Wall Street Journal – Tinder Takes Swipe at Generating Revenue
- Bloomberg – Tinder Plus Is Coming But You’ll Have to Pay For it
- Wall Street Journal – ‘The League’ Dating App’s Velvet Rope – and How to Get Past It
- UT San Diego – Online dating odds getting better
2014
- BCBusiness – Plenty of Fish eggs in one basket: dating site bets it all on mobile
- The Guardian – The $8000 course on “how to commit” and other expenses of online dating
- MarketWatch / WSJ – 5 extreme ways to succeed on dating sites
- Washington Post – Finding love on the run: The fast rise of mobile dating apps
- SF Gate – Lucky in love: How media giant IAC won online daters’ hearts
- Marketplace – In online dating, one company is the big matchmaker
- Austin Business Journal – Online dating tools like Thread need to attract users quickly, expert says
- NEON – The Future Of Internet Dating
- Business Insider – How The Endless Quest For Love Is Sparking Massive Growth In Dating Apps
- USA Today – Online dating services get into matchmaking big leagues
- Wired – Tinder May Not Be Worth $5B, But It’s Way More Valuable Than You Think
- CNBC – How to make money off the online dating boom
- Chicago Tribune – Your new mobile wingman
- Yahoo News – Is your ‘lover’ for real? Picking the wrong online date could cost you your home
2013
- MarketWatch / WSJ – This is the busiest time of year for dating sites
- MarketWatch / WSJ – Walter Mitty’s eHarmony counselor costs $5,000
- ITV – Looking For Love – ITV Documentary
- The Star – Twine: A digital dating app that more than meets the eye
- Mercury News – New digital dating app Twine looks to dig deeper
- Omaha.com – Profile Wingman: Profile Editing & Coaching
- The Deal – Harmonic convergence at home
- The Deal – FriendFinder’s Forbearance Continues
- The Private Man – International Online Dating – Some Words From An Industry Insider
- Consumer’s Digest – Proceed with Caution: The Truth About Online Dating
- The Deal – FriendFinder Needs A Loving Embrace
- Fortune Magazine – The mail-order bride boom
- Chicago Tribune – Love in the time of GPS
- Minyanville – Why Match.com Is Taking Part of Its Business Off-Line With ‘The Stir’
- Irish Times – Looking for the love of your life? There’s an app for that
- Fortune Magazine – Outsourcing the algorithm of love to online dating
- USA Today – Mobile apps tap the changing face of online dating
- Market Watch – 10 things dating sites won’t tell you
- Lexington Patch – Notes from Youville: Seniors and Romance
- NPR Radio – On Point – Monogamy And Online Dating
- The Atlantic – A Million First Dates
2012
- Huffington Post – Online Dating Traffic Surges Between Boxing Day And New Year’s Eve
- Los Angeles Times – EHarmony founder has his heart set on reviving the dating site
- USA Today – Dating sites – for all ages – focus on keeping it real
- Venture Beat – Online daters, be warned! 1 in 10 profiles are scams, report reveals
- Washington Post – Finding love on the run: The fast rise of mobile dating apps
- Boston Globe – Can GPS find you a mate?
- Huffington Post – Dating in a Mobile World
- Washington Post – Hinge uses Facebook — and your friends — to find love connections
- BetaBeat – Is Your Dating Site Selling Your Profile? To Keep Membership High, Niche Sites Get Sly
- Unlimited Magazine – Operation Match Version 2012
- IT Business – Plentyoffish fires darts at eHarmony, Match.com on Valentine’s Day
- USA Today – Sites that cater to ‘discreet’ encounters thriving
- Business Insider – Watch Out: Dating Website Fraud Is Running Rampant
- Miami Herald – Dating Sites Become Mainstream And Focus On More Niche Markets
- NPR Marketplace – Social networks spawn online dating sites
2011
- BBC Radio 4 – The Business of Online Dating
- Morning Show Toronto – Ian Bell, CEO Of Tingle, An iPhone Dating App
- Telegraph.co.uk – Have You Found Your Niche Yet?
- Sunday Times – Flirting site betrays the love cheats
- Sunday Times – Police target lonely hearts fraudsters
- Financial Times – The love letter ghostwriter
- Richmond Times – Many using dating services to find true date online
- The Globe and Mail – The Vancouverite behind Plenty of Fish
- Paid Content – Facebook vs. Shagbook: Social Network in Trademark Dispute with Adult Dating Site
- The Next Web – The most niche (and bizarre) sites for finding love on the Internet
- OC Register – What do online dating sites mean for you?
- McClatchy Tribune – Curious US dating forums boom on the internet
- Huffington Post – The Business of Love
- Examiner – It was all about mobile at the Internet Dating Conference
- The New Yorker – Looking For Someone
- LA Times – With smartphone dating apps, it’s all about location
- Wall Street Journal – Online, Is Dreamdate a Scam?
- Atlanta Post – Digital Romance: The Business Of Online Dating
- Legal Talk Network – Love And The Law: Online Dating Lawsuits
- BBC Scotland – Match.com Runs Sex Offender Checks
- Ad Age – Get Hooked up With the Big Business of Online Dating
- Washington Times – Match.com sued by subscribers who say they were snookered
- Tech Crunch – Facebook Has Already Trademarked ‘Face’ In Europe – Is ‘Book’ Next?
- Buffalo News – Technology And Innovation Transform Online Dating
- Lisa Gualtieri’s blog – Looking for Health in All the Wrong Places: What Can Health Website Design Learn from Online Dating?
2010
- Mixergy – How An Influencer Is Building Personals Sites From An Island In the Mediterranean
- Newsweek – How Match.com Changed Dating
- IEEE Spectrum – The Engineer of Love
- ABC News – Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky Are Bad Match, Says Dating Site
- Dow Jones – The $100M Revenue Club: EHarmony Captures Hearts Of VCs
- BBC – The cyber Cyrano
- LA Times – Hooking up with the latest online dating trends
- Financial Times – Love and money: online dating for the wealthy
- Washington Post – Online dating assistants help the lonely and busy
- CNN Money – Online dating without the creepy strangers
- Wall Street Journal – A Dating Site for Apple Fans Only
- Washington Post – Phone-sex Chat Lines Are Part Of Web Of Cybersocializing
- LA Business Journal – Date Site Operator To Play The Field
- NY Times (Front page) – For Web’s New Wave, Sharing Details Is the Point
- Times Online – The science of online dating
- Lifescript – 10 Online Dating Tips
- TheDeal.com – Lavalife Is Being Shoped
- Miami New Times – Silicon Beach: Can Twitter Replace Online Dating Sites?
- Miami Herald – In World Of Online Flirting, Virtual Gifts Are Big Business
- LA Times – Matchmakers’ personal touch thrives despite EHarmony, Match.com
- LA Times – Make it personal, keep it real
- LA Times – Finding the right online dating service
- The Hamilton Spectator – Finding love on all the right websites
- The Daily Star – Internet Brings Valentine’s Day Home
- Fox Business – How No. 1 Dating Site Match.com Came to Be
- Mercury News – Local matchmaker warns of Internet dating scams
- Smart Money – The Dating-Site Game: What You Need to Know
- Examiner – Highlights From The Internet Dating Conference
- Miami New Times – Silicon Beach: eLove Accepts Fat Rejects From BeautifulPeople.com
2009
- Fast Company – Women Flock to Social Networks: Will They Dump Dating Sites to “Make Friends” Safely?
- SF Business Journal – ‘Social’ dating site Zoosk hooks up with $30M
- NY Post – Daters without borders
- The Economist – Well met my clublight
- Merger Market – FriendFinder Networks could look to sell non-core businesses before expected end-of-year IPO, sources say
- Florida Today – Indialantic pair open online dating service
- McClatchy Newspapers – As seniors live longer they find ‘love expectancy’ also grows
- Boston Globe – Dating from the dorm room
- Wall Street Journal – Spark Networks Loses Online Daters’ Love
- Miami Herald – Seeking A PC Affair?
- Anything For Love – The Key to Finding Romance?
- Los Angeles Times – EHarmony launches gay matchmaking service
- Washington Post – OnDating: Dating by Mobile Phone
- Boston Globe – The myth of Ashton
- National Public Radio – Bad Economy Does Dating Good
- Anything For Love – High-Speed Speed Dating
- Online Dating Magazine – Interview with Mark Brooks (Online Personals Watch)
- San Diego Tribune – Be original – and honest – in your online dating profile
- Pioneer Press – Amid recession, it’s a Valentine’s Day massacre for businesses catering to Feb. 14 needs
- Computer World – So you wanna run an online dating site?
- New Scientist – Valentine’s Day Special: The dating game
- Computer World – Online dating: Your profile’s long, scary shelf life
- Financial Times – Blind date with recession
- Computer World – Online dating: The technology behind the attraction
- New York Times – The Recession. Isn’t It Romantic?
- Smart Money – 10 things dating sites won’t say
- Associated Press – Multitaskers Say One Online Dating Site Won’t Do
- The Morning Show With Mike And Juliet – “M&J Investigates” Online Dating
- Globe & Mail – http://www.cheapdate.com
- The National – Love Is Now A Niche Affair
- Inc Magazine – And the Money Comes Rolling In
- Tech Crunch – Free Dating Sites Give Paid Sites A Run For Their Money
- Telegraph.co.uk – Recession boost for online dating sites
- Star Ledger – Web Video Captures The Truth
2008
- The Real Cougar Woman Radio Show – Paul Falzone And Mark Brooks Interview With Bonnie
- The Independent – Lonely log on to find love in a cold climate
- Classified Intelligence Report – Online Personals: Changing Norms, Changing Business Models
- Seattle PI – Single Shot: How To Be A Cheap Date
- PC World – Dating Sites Hang on Despite Increasing Competition
- Tech Crunch – Psismic Matches People Over Things They Like
- The Christian Science Monitor – Many new ‘friends’ to be made online, but what about dollars?
- Consumer Affairs – Love’s Labor Looted: Internet Dating Scams Can Get Expensive
- The Gazette – Montreal startup wants to be the Facebook of cultures
- McClatchy Newspapers – As seniors live longer they find ‘love expectancy’ also grows
- CMS WIRE8 – Social Networking Conference: Keynotes & Opening Remarks
- Internet News – Social Networking Meets the Mainstream
- Sun Times – Niche Sites Making A Match Easier
- Internet News – Online Dating’s New Face
- Singles Film Documentary – Single, a documentary film
- Star Telegram – Can You Date Me Now?
- Financial Times – Niche dating site bridges age gap
- New York Times – Let’s Say You Want to Date a Hog Farmer
- Tech Crunch – Niche Dating Sites Grow Steadily As Mainstream Ones Flail
- Red Eye Chicago Tribune – Science of love
- 24 – Don’t Call It A Dating Service
- SF Chronicle – Gay matchmaking sites find a growing market
- Network World – The hottest trends in online dating
- Christianity – Surf and Ye Shall Find: Christian Dating
- Chicago Tribune – How Do I Catch A Valentine?
- The New York Times – Parent of Dating Sites Looks for a Match
- Seattle Times – January Boom Time For Internet Dating
2007
- Tango Magazine – Love in 2012: What The Future Holds
- New York Times – Is True.com Being Untrue to Advertising Partners?
- New York Times – Online Dating Putting You Off? Try a Matchmaker
- Houston Chronicle – Virtual Intimacy Leads To Real Carelessness
- Houston Chronicle – Throwing Caution To The Wind
- China Daily – The Cruel Business of Love
- SF Chronicle – Disharmony, The New Tolerance
- SF Chronicle – Now he’s a friend to socializers / Friendster founder’s latest online venture offers invitations and event planning, along with social networking features
- Mercury News – Hook me up: Engage.com connects daters with matchmakers
- NY Times – In the Computer Dating Game, Room for a Coach
- Fox News – PlentyofFish on Fox News
- Miami Herald – Digital Matchmakers Get Down to Business
2006
- Nancy Grace – Missing internet dater
- Nancy Grace – Millionaire Web Site Sex Scandal
- Chicago Tribune iii – Online dating safety tips
- Chicago Tribune ii – Online Dating Industry Deleting Scammers
- Chicago Tribune i – Web of lies
- Bradenton Herald – Online dating profile help
- New Jersey Ledger – True or Dare
- Fox News NY – videMobile Dating Gaining Popularity
- The Guardian – $2m for lonely heart who lost $125,000 to dating agency
- Intl Herald Tribune – Courting an ‘ideal’ Web business
- LA Times – MySpace online scene
- Wireless Week – Hooking Up in the Information Age – Mobile dating
- Columbia News Service – Handsome but clueless? Online profile writers can help
- Reuters & CNN – Perils of Online Dating Prompt Safety Efforts
- Fox NY, DC, LA, FL – Mark Brooks interviews
- Denver Post – Must love dogs, Buddha, caves
- Courier Post – Techies, not Trekkies, Present the Future of Dating
- Newsweek – The Five-Year Itch
- Associated Press – Google Sparks Privacy Fight
2005
- NBC Boston – Date and Switch?
- Miami Herald – Is It Love or a Lie?
- Daily News Journal – Dating in cyberspace
- The Street – Web Dating Game Heats Up
- Union Leader – Safety? A Nice Photo? Help’s Out There, For a Fee
- Union Leader – Online, but Not Looking for Love
- Internet Week – Scammers Dupe Online Daters for Millions of Dollars
- ABC News – Singles Hire Coaches to Improve Their Dating Game
- Wired – Dating Sites Rekindle the Flame
- San Francisco Chronicle – Hey, baby, want a date? / New mobile dating services allow people to browse profiles via cell phone and message potential matches — even on the spot
- CBS Channel 5 News – Internet Dating Goes Mobile
- Miami Herald – Online Dating is Split Over the Bill
- Arizona Tribune – Niche dating sites allow special-interest singles to find each other
- USA Today – Love Growing Strong On Web
- Miami Herald – Love Blossoms on the Internet