This is the news for February 10th through February 15th, 2010. Here is the news we covered:
- Visits to dating sites showing a general decline
- PlentyofFish vs. Match.com
- Mobile Dating and Virtual Goods are big business
- Online Dating is becoming commonplace
- Meetic has posted 2009 revenues
- Match.com and Meetic partner in Latin America
- Match.com joins forces with Neu.de
- New ad campaign for Match directly targets women
- Easydate and Dating Factory partner up
- IMVU teams up with Zoosk
- Avid Life Media and Friend Finder Networks shelve IPOs
- Matchmaking industry going strong
This is the news for February 10th through February 15th, 2010. Please follow this link to enjoy the high-resolution version. Here is the news we covered:
Posted by: S. Marlin | Feb 16, 2010 at 04:31 PM
The Online Dating Industry should had killed the Matchmaking Industry and other Offline Dating Proposals since some years ago, but they are still alive, rosy and with good health.
The 2009 showed big sites like Match, Chemistry, True, eHarmony, PerfectMatch, Be2, Parship, Meetic and other paid sites have less worldwide traffic than 1 year ago or decaying in traffic.
It is not due to economic downturn or the traction of social networking sites.
It is a new phenomenon. Daters had understood that the entire Online Dating Industry for serious daters in 1st World Countries is a HOAX, performing as a Big Online Casino, with low successful rates.
The 2010 is the year of Online Dating Fatigue!
Daters leaving in droves from old paid sites like Match, Chemistry, True, eHarmony, PerfectMatch, Be2, Parship, Meetic and others.
Regards,
Fernando Ardenghi.
Buenos Aires.
Argentina.
[email protected]
Posted by: Account Deleted | Feb 16, 2010 at 08:19 PM
Fernando,
Did you recently have an unhappy love affair with someone you met online?;-) Why the sudden bitterness? Usually you rant (incomprehensively, I might add) about matching algorithms. Lately, it has been about online dating in general.
Sam
P.S. We missed you at iDate!
Posted by: Sam Moorcroft, ChristianCafe.com | Feb 17, 2010 at 08:51 PM
The Online Dating Industry needs a major earthquake or a major cataclysm to extinguish those large dinosaurs (Match, eHarmony, Chemistry, PerfectMatch, True, Yahoo!Personals and others) that all they did since 1995 until now were scamming paying members with marketing and credit card billing trickery.
Regards,
Fernando Ardenghi.
Buenos Aires.
Argentina.
[email protected]
Posted by: Account Deleted | Feb 17, 2010 at 10:50 PM
Ok, so you got automatically renewed without realising you were on a subscription plan, is that it?
Posted by: Sam Moorcroft, ChristianCafe.com | Feb 18, 2010 at 12:03 AM