CB -- July 23 -- Using Hitwise, Comscore, Nielsen Online, iResearch
China and Alexa data, we've created an interactive map showing the top
internet dating sites around the world. Plentyoffish.com rules the US,
Canadian and UK Market according to Hitwise (Jun '09). Deutsche
Telekom's FriendScout24 is the top dating site in Germany, Spain and
Switzerland according to Nielsen Online (Jun '09). Apparently Nielsen
Online doesn't think Meetic has much of a traction in France. EasyFlirt
is the top dating site in France as well as in Italy. See the
interactive version of the map. For future reference see 'World Map' under the 'Internet Dating Official Rankings' section.
fail for germany - at least place 2 and 3 are never that big!!!
edarling???? its a startup without a big userbase yet!!!
loomin.de????? i even never heard of that before....
i know at least dozen sites which have a much bigger user size that those 2 (neu.de, freenet.singles, ilove.de, be2.de etc. etc.)
i think this map gives you a lot of mistakes and a wrong view to the worldwide dating market.
Posted by: KR | Jul 23, 2009 at 07:24 PM
My guess is the Canadian inclusion of Kijiji traffic includes those selling their couches and renting their apartments? How do they break out the Personals section of that? If it's all lumped together it's hardly a fair comparison.
Posted by: Fred Moesker | Jul 27, 2009 at 07:55 PM
Look at google trends and you can see this map is not correct.
For France it should be meetic.fr
http://trends.google.com/websites?q=easyflirt.com%2Cbe2.fr%2Cmeetic.fr&geo=FR&date=all&sort=0
Posted by: Jasper Jan | Aug 06, 2009 at 10:27 AM
Oops, thanks for the heads up, we'll get that corrected.
Posted by: Mark Brooks | Aug 13, 2009 at 07:40 AM