PR NEWSWIRE - LendingTree, the nation's leading online financial services marketplace, found that 77% of dating Americans say dating would be easier if they had more money, with 1 in 5 going on fewer dates due to inflation. Additionally, LendingTree found that 22% of millennials have incurred debt due to their dating habits - the most of any generation.
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20% of Daters Are Dating Less Due to Inflation
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Online Daters: It's Important to See COVID-19 Vaccination Status on Profiles
PEW RESEARCH - Among U.S. adults who have used a dating site or app in the past year, 47% say it has been at least somewhat important to them that the profiles they look at include someone's COVID-19 vaccination status, according to Pew Research Center survey. This includes 23% who say it's been very important to see this information. The survey, conducted July 5-17, 2022, found that 9% of U.S. adults have used a dating site or app in the past year.
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Which Dating Apps Collect and Share the Most Data From Their Users
TECH BUZZ IRELAND - MoneyTransfers.com has analyzed 15 different dating apps to identify which apps share sensitive information with third parties. 67% of dating apps collect users' personal data to share with third parties. Badoo and Her were discovered to be the dating apps that share most of their users' personal data with third parties (35%), including everything from location, contact information, identifiers (IP address and cookies), and usage data. In joint second place were eharmony and Grindr, and in third place came Tinder and PlentyOfFish. There were 5 apps that did not collect any of their users' personal data to share with third parties. These apps were Hinge, Thursday, Flava, Once and Raya.
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Dating Apps Market to Bring $7.6B Revenue In 2022
SAFEBETTINGSITES - According to the numbers presented by SafeBettingSites.com, matchmaking/dating apps are set to bring in annual revenue worth $7.6B in 2022. According to Statista, in 2017, the overall annual revenue of the market stood at $4.7B In 2021, the yearly revenue increased to $7.5B, indicating an increase of 60% over four years.
by Vyom Chaud
See full article at SafeBettingSites.com
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California Bill Allows Lawsuits Over 'Cyber Flashing'
NBC LA - People who receive unwelcome sexually graphic material could sue senders under a bill sent to California Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk.The Pew Research Center found that 33% of women under 35 had been sexually harassed online, three times as often as men. In a 2017 report, the center said more than half of women age 18-29 had been sent unsolicited explicit images, as had 37% of men in the same age range. The bill would allow recipients to recover at least $1,500 and as much as $30K from senders of obscene material who are older than age 18, as well as punitive damages and attorney's fees. They could also seek court orders blocking such behavior in the future.
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Dating Apps Prosper in an Evolving Market
LA BUSINESS JOURNAL - Dating apps made $5.6B in revenue last year, with ~$3B being made by Match Group. Since the start of the pandemic, more people have turned to dating apps. In a publication titled "The Future of Dating is Fluid," Tinder pointed out that 2020 was an outstanding year. 60% of members came to Tinder because they felt lonely. 50% of Tinder's Gen Z users participated in a video chat, and 30% were playing online video games together. Those who tried virtual dating saw it as a low-pressure way to get a sense of someone and their personality. Hannah Shimko from the Online Dating Association said the pandemic made people more comfortable with being online. She added that new companies are trying to be innovative about bringing back in-person dating. One example is FROME, a dating app that encourages offline dates. When users sign on, they can choose "available today"or "available this week" to set up a date. When a user is interested in someone, they will send an invitation with a day, time and place. Once the other user confirms, they are locked to each other for the day and cannot connect with anyone else.
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Friendship on Dating Apps in India Is the New Trend to Watch out for
NEWS PATROLLING - Indian dating app QuackQuack analyzed its user data and behavior aiming to understand the place of dating apps in terms of friendship. QuackQuack's data and survey show that among the ~22K downloads per day, more and more people are joining the dating app intending to make friends rather than just dating. 41% of the new QuackQuack users are looking to make new friends, and the majority of these people are from tier 2 cities. The majority of users looking for friends are in the age group of 18 to 22. Among the women users, 54% are looking for friends, compared to 40% of men who are interested in making friends.
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App Market 2022 Q2 Downloads Will Reach 34B
CALIFORNIA18 - The latest insights from data.ai show that in the Q2 of 2022, global users will spend $33B on mobile apps; iOS users will increase their user spending by 4% YOY to $22B, while Android users' user spending will remain unchanged from $11B in the Q1 of 2022. A notable new product in the consumer spending charts is Bumble. In December, Bumble became one of only 15 non-gaming apps to reach $1B in lifetime global revenue.
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Post-COVID Dating in Japan
NIKKEI ASIA - Japanese dating app Tapple teams with amusement parks for events to help couples bond in person. Eureka, the company behind the Pairs dating app, estimates that the revival of in-person dating will boost Japan's economy by up to 455B yen ($3.36B) a month. In a survey of 50K people, the company found that 59% had refrained from looking for partners or dating due to the pandemic. The resulting decline in outings and consumer spending led to a monthly economic hit of 176.7B yen, Eureka says.
by Yuya Takahashi
See full article at Nikkei Asia
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Women Still Don't Feel Safe on Dating Apps
ELLE.FR - According to a Happn poll, 8 out of 10 women still feel very uncomfortable on dating apps. The main reason is insults and lewd unsolicited photos. 50% of single prefer to chat on the dating app rather than moving to another platform such as WhatsApp or messenger. 44% of users say they do not want to share their exact location, and 9 out of 10 singles prefer to meet in a public place.
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Online Dating Has Highest Email Spam Complaints
BRAND EQUITY - Netcore Cloud has released the second edition of its Email Benchmark Report for 2022. The study highlights the use of AI and other advanced technologies across audience selection, content optimization, channel preference, and email delivery. According to the report, Online dating and the media over-the-top (OTT) industry has the highest spam complaints, with ~30 emails every 10K emails sent.
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Facebook Asked to Introduce Option to List More Than One Romantic Partner
METRO.CO.UK - A polyamory advocacy group is calling on Facebook to allow users to list more than one romantic partner on their profiles. Currently Facebook allows users to indicate that they're 'in an open relationship' but the group finds this 'limited'. In the US, 4-5% of adults currently practice some form of ethical non-monogamy, with one in five adults entering into a consensually non-monogamous relationship at some point in their lives. This year, Facebook saw its number of daily active users fall for the first time in 18 years indicating that it might have become outdated.
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Survey: 40% of Single Japanese Men in Their 20s Have Never Been on a Date
SORANEWS24 - And a lot of 20-something women are yet to go on their first date too, according to a government study. As part of the paper's overarching goal of clarifying the current societal situation for men and women in Japan, the researchers asked participants in their 20s whether they were married, completely unattached, or had a "lover".
The responses were:
- Men in their 20s
- No spouse or lover: 65.8%
- Lover: 19.1%
- Common law spouse: 1.5% Spouse: 13.6% - Women in their 20s
- No spouse or lover: 51.4%
- Lover: 27.3%
- Common law spouse: 1.4% Spouse: 19.8%
Part of the reason 40% of the 20-something men, and 25% of the women, haven't ever been on even a casual date is because casual dates themselves are less common in Japan, with the "still getting to know each other" phase often taking place at nominally platonic group events instead.
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The Obstacles of Non-binary Dating
BBC - In the US, ~1.2M LGBTQ adults identify as non-binary, according to a 2021 study by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law. Identifying as non-binary means, simply, not defining one's gender within the male versus female binary. While many dating apps allow users to identify as non-binary, their profiles still get lumped in with men or women when it comes to how other users of the app can view them. Users on Bumble can choose who they'd like to be seen by on the app, like if they want to be seen by "women, men, non-binary people, a selection of two options, or everyone". Then there are dating apps such as Lex, which primarily target users who identify as "queer, trans, gender non-conforming, two spirit, and non-binary".
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Why People Behave Badly on Dating Apps
BBC - Cheating, ghosting and swiping - online dating brings out the worst in many people. "The screen mediates our courage, so we will do and say things online that we would never do in real life," says Dr Joanne Orlando, an Australia-based researcher and author who focuses on digital wellness. Dana Weiser, an associate professor at Texas Tech University, began collecting data from 550 undergraduate students about infidelity on Tinder, which was published in a 2018 study. 64% reported seeing someone on Tinder whom they knew to be in an exclusive relationship, 17% of the study's participants themselves admitted to messaging someone on Tinder while in a relationship, and 7% said they'd had a sexual experience with someone they met on Tinder while dating someone else. A 2016 survey by Plenty of Fish showed 80% of respondents between 18 and 33 years old reported having at least one relationship end via ghosting. 35% of respondents to the 2020 Pew Research Center study reported someone had sent them an "explicit message or image they didn't ask for" on a dating app, and that number rose to 57% among female users aged 18 to 34.
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