NET IMPERATIVE -- Apr 4 -- Online dating has grown by more than 30% since December 2005 with ~ten million users seeking partners online during February 2006 - ComScore, The UK online dating market grew 30% to 9,495,000 uniques in February compared with December. DatingDirect.com was the most visited sites with one million uniques accounting for 11% of the UK industry total. Yahoo! Personals was second, followed by Loopylove.com and Match.com.
Mark Brooks: Hitwise graciosuly provide OPW the monthly UK rankings. See left bar. You can get to OPW more easily using opw1.com btw.
True that nowadays investing in online dating segment of digital content industry can be very effective means of making profit.
It's interesting that Dating Industry is estimated in $503.4 million in the report of The Online Publishers Association on the size of of the legal, digital content industry (http://business2.blogs.com/business2blog/). This means that since 2002 dating industry has developed grately and it's becoming more and more developed and complicated.
It's targeted and full of great ideas that are aimed to attract more people.
Posted by: Julia Dorofeeva | Apr 06, 2006 at 07:27 AM