OPW - Feb 16 - The Plentyoffish.com team have been busy with their Portugese. Here's the top ten dating site rankings in Brazil. POF is in the top spot now.
| Unique Visitors | |||
| 1. | POF Sites | 1,078 | |
| 2. | C-Date | 785 | |
| 3. | MSN Dating & Personals | 755 | |
| 4. | Meetic-Match | 607 | |
| 5. | be2 GmbH | 558 | |
| 6. | Chifrevirtual.com.br | 488 | |
| 7. | Twoo.com | 484 | |
| 8. | Baixocidade.com.br | 396 | |
| 9. | 1001 Cartas de Amor | 242 | |
| 10. | eHarmony.com.br | 147 |
(Source: Comscore)
OREGON LIVE - Feb 12 - More 20-somethings are on online dating sites than ever, and their numbers are growing. Only 8% of users on Match.com are under 30. Free sites like OkCupid and PlentyofFish report much stronger numbers among 20-somethings. In fact, the majority of OkCupid's 8M members are under 30, with the most common age being 24. In the past year, countless more sites have sprung up promising to be the next big thing in online dating for the young adult. They tend to be more tech-savvy, carefree and interactive. There's MeetMoi, a mobile-based site that tracks your location through your phone, allowing you to invite nearby users on a spontaneous date. There's Clique, a site that lets New York City singles meet friends of friends by linking their profile to social networks like Facebook. There's Assisted Serendipity, which uses Foursquare check-in data to monitor a user's favorite hangout spots and notify them when the male-to-female ratio tips in their favor. There's even Spoondate, which lets users plan dates based on a mutual craving for, say, udon noodles.
by Kelly House
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THE NEXT WEB - Feb 11 - New data suggests that there has been a 57% increase in online dating revenues in the past year. Digital marketing and billing manager Vindicia has been tracking the global activity for its online dating clients. Social networking, and in particular Facebook, is contributing to the growth. Vindicia’s online dating clients attracted £3.4 million (US$5.4 million) in revenues in January alone this year, compared to the £2.2M (US$3.5M) spent in January 2011. Sales have increased steadily over the weekends leading up to Valentine’s Day too – with dating companies seeing individual spikes of up to 40%, and a combined global spike of 23% last weekend (February 3rd) against the previous weekend’s spend (January 27th). These figures are global, and are taken from across all of Vindicia’s online dating clients, which include SNAPInteractive, SpeedDate.com, Online Buddies and AvidLife. Online dating spend grows by 60% on last year, and the industry can only get bigger
PR NEWSWIRE - Feb 7 - Plentyoffish.com (POF.com), the world’s largest dating site with more than 39.5M registered users, surpassed 300M monthly visits to their free IPhone and Android apps in January 2012. The apps’ success is a testament to the growing popularity of mobile-based services and changing habits of daters, with mobile traffic on POF increasing at a rate of 3% a week. “40% of sign-ups in the U.S. are now via mobile device”, says Markus Frind, founder and CEO of POF.
DISCOVERY NEWS - Feb 7 - A new study shows that how you catch a potential date's eye might depend on your gender. Researchers used eye tracking technology to follow people's eye movements as they perused online profiles. The results show that men spend 65% more time looking at photos than women. Women, on the other hand, spent 50% more time than men actually reading the profiles. AnswerLab, a consumer research company, ran the study in one day at a coffee shop in San Francisco. The researchers collected data using the Tobii X1 Light Eye Tracker, a new, portable model of eye tracker.
by Kate Prengaman
See full article at Discovery News
MARKETWIRE - Feb 3 - Market Research has released a new report "The U.S. Dating Services Market". The U.S. dating services market is a now a $2.1 billion business. Dating website revenues are expected to grow only 7.5% this year as the U.S.
PC MAG - Feb 2 - Facebook's mobile apps are frequently among the most popular downloads in the Android Market and Apple App Store. Facebook's Wednesday IPO filing revealed that the company had ~425M monthly active users during December 2011, or about half of its worldwide user base. But while that 425M number might be impressive, it's not making Facebook any money at this point. "We currently do not show ads or directly generate any meaningful revenue from users accessing Facebook through our mobile products", Facebook said.
by Chloe Albanesius
See full article at PC Mag
Mark Brooks: Same story with iDating companies. Jumptap.com may be able to help. There are a few mobile ad opportunities now. I'l be reviewing options at iDate Beverly Hills in June in my 3 hour presentation on mobile dating.
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DAILYMAIL – Jan 27 – A recent poll of 2,000 singles in Britain’s major cities has found that Brits collectively go on 37M dates a year, spending an average of £47 each time, spending a national average of £1.3 billion on food and drink alone. The dating industry has made a major impact on the UK economy, the study found, revealing that £421M goes towards transportation and another £324M in grooming as people get their hair cut to look their best. The study was commissioned by Match.com and produced by the Centre of Economic Business Research.
by Sadie Whitelocks
See full article at DailyMail
REALWIRE - Jan 9 - Just eight months after launching, Twoo.com is the world's No.6 most popular dating site according to the latest comScore data.
| Dating Website | Total Unique Visitors (000) |
| Jiayuan.com | 8,610 |
| Plentyoffish.com | 6,851 |
| Match.com | 6,835 |
| MeetIC Match | 4,882 |
| Mail.Ru Love | 4,500 |
| Twoo.com | 3,832 |
| MSN Dating & Personals | 3,301 |
| Zoosk | 2,924 |
| Speeddate | 2,763 |
Twoo.com had 2.88M monthly active users in December and grew by ~1000% between June and November 2011. Twoo doesn't match users based on complex personality analysis, as it takes a more real-world approach. It leaves it up to individuals to make a connection just as they would in a bar, at the workplace or any other social setting.
KOREA HERALD - Jan 3 - A revision to the Law on the Management of Marriage Agencies was among the scores of bills that passed the National Assembly on the last few days of 2011. The revised law contained provisions to punish marriage brokers introducing women under the age of 18 and introducing two or more women to an applicant at the same time with up to three years in jail and a maximum fine of 20M won. The law requires notarization of documents providing the personal data of Korean men seeking foreign brides and raised the punishment for running an unregistered marriage brokerage business to a maximum five years’ imprisonment and 50M won in fines from three years and 20M won. As of the end of 2010, 1,253 agencies were registered with the authorities for local and overseas business. Over 30,000 international marriages are reported each year.
DAILYMAIL.CO.UK - Jan 2 - Finding love online can be tough – especially if you’re called Kevin. Researchers say that people using dating sites are less likely to pursue a relationship with someone called Mandy, Justin, Chantal or Kevin, because the names are all associated with troublemaking. Psychologists at the Humboldt University in Berlin reached the conclusions after testing how often 47,000 dating site members would open messages from English-sounding suitors. ‘Mails sent from an Alexander were clicked on 102% more times than those from a Kevin,’ said the study’s leader, Jochen Gebauer.
METRO.CO.UK - Dec 26 - ~6M British people are set to take to the internet to find love during the festive season in the biggest week of the year for online dating. According to Match.com one in ten Brits is likely to browse a dating site between now and 2012. Meanwhile US-based dating sites also expect a boost in traffic over the next week as hopefuls look to find someone to share New Year's Eve with, as well as forthcoming events such as Valentine's Day.
HUFFINGTON POST - Dec 20 - For nearly ~60% of single people over 50, “finding love” is the top New Year’s resolution, according to a survey of members of OurTime.com, the dating site for singles over 50. At 56% of respondents, "Find a Companion" ranked higher than exercising more (34%), reducing stress (29%), saving money/spending less (28%), dieting (20%) and quitting smoking (12%). This is not entirely surprising, since the respondents were members of an online dating site.
by Laura Rowley
See full article at Huffington Post
DATINGBEESKNEES - Dec 2 - Online dating has become increasingly popular among Muslims. According to new population projections by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life, “the world’s Muslim population is expected to increase by ~35% in the next 20 years, rising from 1.6 billion in 2010 to 2.2 billion by 2030.” This growth is roughly at twice the rate of the non-Muslim global population for the next two decades. There was a quote in the article by the halfourdeen.com founder that struck a nerve: “Baba Ali explains that what is more worrying for him is the fact that a number of Muslim matchmaking sites are owned by non-Muslims.” Is Baba Ali implying that non-Muslim entrepreneurs should not have the opportunity to sit at the table and have a piece of this pie? The issue is not who’s behind the service, but rather how you are serving your customers.
NEWBURY PORT NEWS - Dec 2 - Close to 29% of adults ages 50 to 65 are now single. Dating can be challenging at any age. But for boomers, this is even more true when you consider that social skills may be a bit rusty. While some boomers may be skeptical or embarrassed to try online dating, people over age 50 make up Match.com's fastest-growing segment of users, with a 300% increase since 2000. When it comes to relationships, 84% of boomers rank physical intimacy as being "important" or "very important."
THE NATIONAL - Nov 19 - ~60% of residents in the UAE would not trust the internet dating to find a possible partner, a survey has found. Technology moves very fast, however tradition changes very slowly in UAE. 71% said they would trust the internet to pay bills, and 61% would use it to voice their opinion about social news. Asians showed greater acceptance of online dating. Four in five (82%) Asian respondents thought it was socially acceptable to find a partner online.
by Manal Ismail
See full article at The National
EHARMONY LABS - Oct 28 - People are delaying marriage. In Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong, the mean age for marriage is 29-30 for women, 31-33 for men. The percentage of those never married before age 40 has been on the rise. Educated women are less likely to marry. This is the opposite trend compared to those in the US and Europe, where marriage is more common among those more educated.
by Erina Lee
See full article at eHarmony Labs
DAILY MAIL - Oct 20 - Only 1 in 6 Brits prefer to meet in bars and at parties and 1 in 12 want to meet at night clubs. 3 in 5 Brits are dating or have dated someone they met online and staggering 84% would meet someone in the real world they have chatted virtually.
by Maysa Rawi
See full article at Daily Mail
JEZEBEL - Sep 29 - According to JDate survey, 52% of Jewish married couples who met online met on JDate (compared to 17% on Match and 10% on eHarmony). 63% percent of the online dates the users went on were set up through JDate. And 76% of Jewish online daters used JDate at some point, even if they didn't find a spouse on it.
by Anna North
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PRESS RELEASE - Sep 21 - The year 2011 has quickly become the year of mobile dating. Julie Spira has announced the Cyber Dating Expert Top 10 Mobile Dating Apps for 2011.
1. eHarmony
2. Match Mobile
3. Are You Interested?
4. Skout
5. Plenty of Fish
6. OkCupid
7. Zoosk
8. SpeedDate
9. Grindr
10. Jazzed
According to Comscore, ~14M people worldwide access dating sites through mobile app. A recent Flurry report showed that mobile usage has now surpassed web usage for dating. Mobile app usage rose from 3.7 minutes in June of 2010 to 8.4 minutes in June of 2011.
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