Archive for the ‘Global Dating Market’ Category
Friday, February 29th, 2008
WHAT?!!? Yes, you heard me... it's dead! The "traditional" online dating site is dead, especially paid sites (Sam I look forward to hear how I am crazy :D). I'm calling it right now, 2008 will be the worst year for paid online dating. More and more users are starting to ...
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
InterActiveCorp (IAC), parent company of Ask.com, Bloglines, Evite, and dozens of other popular Web sites, has decided to split itself into five separate, publicly traded companies. The hotter of IAC’s properties (it’s so-called “media & advertising” and “emerging businesses” groups) will remain under the IAC brand, while slower growth units ...
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
This Monday, MTV quietly deployed a Hot or Not competitor called NextorNot.
The premise, as with Hot or Not, is simple: users flip through “profiles” of other users (consisting mainly of a portraits) and indicate whether they think the people in the profiles are attractive or not. In NextorNot’s case, you ...
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
I thought it would be interesting to go back and give myself a report card on my predictions for the online dating market in 2007. Though the year isn't over, we are winding down as we get towards Halloween and Thanks Giving. See my comments in bold below.
2007 will bring ...
Posted in Dating 2.0, Dating Industry, Global Dating Market, Online Dating Features, Site Reviews, Uncategorized, golden, weakness | 7 Comments »
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
CAMBRIDGE - Success came early to Sam Yagan. So did failure. By the time he was 22, the son of Syrian immigrants was living the American dream, Internet version. Early in 1999, in the spring of his senior year at Harvard, he and two classmates launched an online study guide ...
Posted in Dating Industry, Finding Love Online, Global Dating Market, Online Dating News, Uncategorized, early, graduates, negotiated, okcupid, sam, sparknotes, sweat, yagan | 3 Comments »
Monday, August 13th, 2007
The media mogul has built up Web conglomerate IAC through a series of acquisitions. IAC's numerous Internet properties include search engine Ask.com, financial services Web site LendingTree and ticket agency Ticketmaster.
But despite this diversity, IAC (Charts) has been the worst performing major media stock this year. ...
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Friday, July 20th, 2007
Today is the last day to register for the Internet Dating / Social Networking Conference in San Francisco. I will be attending Thursday the 26th, and possibly part of the day Friday. Anyone going? Drop in a comment if you are, I would love to chat with anyone interested in ...
Posted in Dating Industry, Global Dating Market, Mobile Dating, Online Dating News, Social Networking, Uncategorized, Web 2.0, attending, conference, francisco, internet, networking, register, san, today | No Comments »
Friday, July 13th, 2007
While opening my credit card bill today, I noticed that I had been charged a subscription fee by Match.com, an account I had canceled months back. I was pretty frustrated with this, so I called the 800 number to see what was going on. After getting the operator on the ...
Posted in Dating Industry, Global Dating Market, Online Dating News, Online Dating and Relationship Tips, Wall of Shame, cable, canceled, charged, consumer, interacted, match, permission, subscription, trash, true | No Comments »
Thursday, June 28th, 2007
After months of planning, coding, designing, spending, anxiety, etc etc, I am pleased to announce the release of Collaboradate V1. So what's so special about it? I'm glad you asked :) There's a lot of work to be done, and many bugs to be squashed, but it's good enough ...
Posted in Dating Industry, Dating Video, Development, Global Dating Market, Online Dating Features, Online Dating Identity, Online Dating News, Site Info, Social Networking, Startup, announce, anxiety, coding, designing, planning, pleased, release, spending | No Comments »
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
For those who missed it in “The Sopranos” frenzy (and stop arguing now–it was a good ending), CBS’s “60 Minutes” did a pretty warm and fuzzy profile of media and Internet mogul Barry Diller on Sunday.
He comes off charming and smooth, expertly batting away all suggestions by interviewer Lesley Stahl ...
Posted in Dating Industry, Global Dating Market, Online Dating Identity, Online Dating News, Uncategorized, Wall of Shame, barry, cbs, diller, interviewer, mogul, stahl, suggestions, watch | No Comments »
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
Markus at plentyoffish is predicting the decline of the online dating industry as a whole:
"Another year or 2 of social networking growth in the US and companies like Match.com, True.com are in serious trouble, although I don’t think Eharmony will feel much of an impact."
I think that ...
Posted in Beta, Dating Industry, Development, Global Dating Market, Online Dating Features, Online Dating News, Social Networking, Startup, Uncategorized, Web 2.0, dating, fish, lavalife, markus, match, plenty, plentyoffish, predicting, singles, socialnetwork, true, yahoo | No Comments »
Monday, April 30th, 2007
A new contextual ad network has been launched by Ask.com which it hopes will offer an alternative to Google's AdSense, ClickZ reports. The system will bolster Ask's search advertising and will initially launch on Match.com, Ticketmaster and other platforms owned by Ask/IAC. Mid-size publishers can sign up for the system ...
Posted in Dating Industry, Global Dating Market, Online Dating Features, Online Dating News, Site Info, ads, ask, competitors, contextual, google, iac, match, offer, products, publishers, supported, system, yahoo | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007
When it comes to online dating, one would think it a world dominated by the young, web-savvy folks in their 20s or 30s looking for love and the mates of their lives. There’s a lot to that. The young do very much dominate online dating. Yet increasingly dating sites report ...
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Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Russians Spend $34 Mln on Online Dating. Online dating services were the biggest earners among Russian web-sites last year, analysts reported Friday. Dating web-sites gained $34 million in profits in 2006. The figure is expected to double this year. The total turnover of online dating services grew fourfold last year, ...
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