EMEDIAWIRE -- July 28 -- IllicitEncounters.com, an extra-marital dating site, has now over 340,000 members in the UK. IllicitEncounters.com was in talks with Travelodge, a hotel chain, to negotiate an offer for their members. Travelodge may be facilitating more than people's need to sleep, after opening four new hotels in several adultery hot-spots including Edinburgh, Kent and Essex. "Edinburgh currently holds the largest number of llicitEncounters'
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Mark Brooks: Sigh. Slow news day, what can I say? What does it mean IE was 'in talks' with Travelodge? They exchanged voicemail? "We'd like to have Travelodge slip a mint and and IE.com card onto everyone's pillows." Ashley Madison rules the illicit encounters segment. AdultFriendFinder, Fling and SexSearch have categories on their sites for those seeking discrete relationships. And that's a good thing. People know what they are getting in to when they see a user categorized as looking for a discrete relationship.
Wow, these guys know how to get B2B PR eh :) Of course they're not in talks - though they could be at the end of a lawsuit from Travelodge for suggesting that Travelodge would endorse extra marital affairs.
Illicit Encounters has seen market share in the UK decline since February this year when they were overtaken by MaritalAffair.co.uk according to Compete:
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/maritalaffair.co.uk+illicitencounters.com/
Posted by: Ross Williams | Jul 29, 2009 at 03:30 AM
Well Ross, I am an IE subscriber, and for good reason. When seeking guys in a similar predicament to my own, I found a certain lack of 'quality density' among those choosing to seek discrete liaisons on the free sites. On IE, to which I as a female subscribe for free, I know the guys I meet have chosen to pay out for a quality platform. That might not be related, but I've met no "wife-beater" types there, which is more than I can say for the free sites. Woop-de-doo for the sites amassing the lowest life-form in my particular immoral demographic. I'm happy to be a big fish in a fertile pond.
Posted by: Louise | Jul 30, 2009 at 09:16 AM