THE PRINT - Aug 10 - With a surge in unemployment rates and the fear of an uncertain future brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, many young Indians are turning to sugar dating. According to SeekingArrangement, Mumbai is the hotbed for sugar dating in India, with 6,246 sugar babies and 21,464 sugar daddies, followed by New Delhi with 3,447 sugar babies and 13,127 sugar daddies. Hyderabad trails closely behind with 1,218 sugar babies and 11,784 sugar daddies. SeekingArrangement launched in 2006, but the India operations are currently run out of Malaysia.
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Mumbai Is Hotbed of Sugar Dating, Delhi Close Second
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Top Grossing Dating Apps Worldwide for June 2020
SENSORTOWER - July 30 - The top grossing dating app worldwide for June 2020 was Tinder with $64.8M in user spending. ~41% of Tinder's revenue was from the US, followed by 6% from the UK and 6% from Germany. Bumble was the second highest earning dating app worldwide with more $16.5M in gross revenue. ~76% of Bumble's revenue was from the U.S., followed by 7% from the UK. The next top grossing app was Pairs, followed by MeetMe and Tantan.
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Dating Is Costing Brits £1,300 a Year
MARIECLAIRE.CO.UK - July 28 - Looking for love is costing single Brits ~£1,349 a year. Plenty of Fish surveyed 2K single adults and found that on average, they go on thirteen dates a year with each meet-up costing ~£106.06.
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Study - What Makes Relationships Successful
INVERSE - July 28 - Scientists now argue that there's something far more important than personality when it comes to cultivating happy relationships. The most powerful predictors of relationship quality are the characteristics of the relationship itself. This is according to an analysis of 11,196 couples gleaned from 43 studies. The study as published Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This study breaks down all the individual ingredients that go into romantic relationships. They fell into two categories: individual characteristics of each partner (income, age, empathy...) and relationship characteristics (affection, sexual satisfaction...). The dynamic that you build with someone - the shared norms, the in-jokes, the shared experiences - is so much more than the separate individuals who make up that relationship. A partner's personality may only account for ~5% of that relationship satisfaction.
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Bumble Launches "Love Will Find a Way" Campaign
EVERYTHING EXPERIENTIAL - July 15 - Research by Bumble affirms that single millennials and GenZ-ers in India are actively interested in dating virtually during these unprecedented times. Bumble launched an integrated digital campaign 'Love Will Find A Way' that celebrates the importance of love, hope and resilience as the lockdown begins to slowly ease in India. Bumble found that 83% of users are more interested in dating during these times, while 63% of users are anxious about the future. 70% of Bumble users in India claim that their personal online dating behaviour has changed compared to before the outbreak, with 80% of these users now accepting and trying virtual dating.
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More People Are Having Virtual Affairs as Covid-19 Pandemic Wears On
BUSINESS INSIDER - July 15 - Coronavirus pandemic-related stress is a risk factor that could drive people to cheat, according to two University of Tennessee Knoxville psychologists. Kristina Coop Gordon and Erica A. Mitchell said pandemic-related stress is straining relationships, driving people onto dating apps. According to data Gordon and Mitchell obtained from a dating site for married people (they didn't disclose which site), 17K new people have signed up for the services every day during the pandemic. This compares to the 1,500 daily new member sign-ups in 2019.
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More People Are Talking About Politics on Dating Apps
INSIDER - July 15 - But a majority of people find it to be a huge turn off according to a new survey by Dating.com. The platform saw a 43% increase in users discussing politics. However, over half said they would consider ghosting someone if they brought up politics. 84% of respondents said they would never consider dating someone with opposing political views. The company surveyed 2K of its members in the US.
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eharmony Sees 85% Increase in UK App Registrations During Covid-19 Lockdown
PRESS.AT - July 7 - eharmony has seen its app registration figures increase by 85% YOY in the UK during lockdown – in the period between January and June 2020. Driving this increase has been the success of Video Date, which enabled singles to keep connecting romantically during lockdown and beyond.
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Top Grossing Dating Apps Worldwide for May 2020
SENSORTOWER - July 3 - The top grossing dating app worldwide for May 2020 was Tinder with ~$65.3M in user spending. ~41.5% of Tinder's revenue was from the U.S, followed by 5.6% from UK and 5.4% from Japan. Bumble was the second highest earning dating app worldwide for May 2020 with close to $16M in gross revenue. The next top grossing app was Pairs, followed by MeetMe and Tantan.
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Global App Revenue Jumps to $50B in the H1 2020
TECH CRUNCH - June 30 - Consumer spending on mobile apps grew significantly during H1 2020, in part due to the COVID-19, according to Sensor Tower. In H1, consumers spent $50B worldwide across the App Store and Google Play, up 23.4% from the H1of 2019. In addition, first-time app installs were up 26.1% YOY to reach 71.5B downloads. During the H1 2020, Tinder generated ~$433M in spending across both app stores, combined. However, this number does represent a decrease of ~19% YOY. It's unclear how much that decline is related to consumers' changing behavior and spending habits during the pandemic. TikTok was the most-downloaded app, the No. 2 and No. 3 apps were WhatsApp and Zoom, respectively.
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Chispa Dating App: 75% Of Latina Users Are Open To Dating A Single Dad
LATIN TIMES - June 17 - Chispa is a dating app made for single Latinx millennials in the U.S. that helps them connect with people who share culture and similar values. The app noticed a 33% increase in messaging and a 25% increase in matches made during the pandemic. As Father's Day approaches, Chispa wanted to know a little bit more about their female users and what they think about dating single dads. The survey shows that single Latinas are very much attracted to single dads. 75% of Chispa users say they are open to matching with a single Latino dad.
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Young Americans Are Having Less Sex Than Ever
CNN - June 15 - Sexual inactivity increased among young American men between 2000 and 2018, according to researchers from Indiana University and Sweden's Karolinska Institutet who studied survey data from US adults. Postponement of adulthood and the growth of the Internet and digital media could be reasons for why. Men who were unemployed, had part-time employment or lower incomes were more likely to be sexually inactive, researchers found. Women aged 25 to 34 were also having less sex, with students being most likely to be affected.
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Six-in-ten U.S. Online Daters Concerned About Data Collection
PEW RESEARCH - May 30 - 30% of U.S. adults say they have ever used a dating app or site, and among them, a majority (57%) report being concerned about how much dating apps collect about them. Older online daters tend to be more worried about data collection. These findings are from a Pew Research Center survey from October 2019.
by Erica Turner & Monica Anderson
See full article at Pew Research
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Research: 20% of Couples Meet Online
HAPPIFUL - May 27 - A new research from comparethemarket has revealed a fifth of couples met online, with Google searches for online dating soaring by 75% since lockdown began. Searches for 'Zoom date' have risen by ~ 284%.
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How Swipe Dating Apps Are Impacting Mental Health
BIG THINK - May 26 - Research by Western Sydney University and the University of Sydney has linked the experience of swipe-based dating apps to higher rates of psychological distress and/or depression. 20% of participants who use swipe-based dating apps reported a significantly higher level of psychological distress compared to those who didn't use these apps. Not all time spent on these apps is damaging, however. Up to 40% of current users say they previously entered a serious relationship with someone they met through one of these apps. A study of 5K people between the ages of 18-30 years old shows that people are spending an average of 10 hours per week on dating apps alone. Men were logging on to check their status on dating apps 9 times a day, with women logging on 10 times per day to check their potential matches.
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