ASKMEN - Mar 13 - 28% of the 1,045 surveyed in AskMen survey chose statistics on how their profile is performing as their most wanted feature. 20% would like to see automatic suggestions for first dates, followed by to see who else your match is chatting with (14%) and how to tell who has blocked you (14%).
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Cybercrimes in Japan Edge up to Record High
JAPAN TIMES - Mar 8 - The number of cybercrimes confirmed by police nationwide in 2018, including many cases of child pornography and fraud, stood at 9,040, rising slightly to reach a record high for the third consecutive year, National Police Agency data showed Thursday. Among the 9,040 cybercrimes, the highest number, at 2,057, were related to child prostitution and child pornography, followed by 972 cases of fraud and 926 related to juveniles, such as sexual misconduct involving youth age 18 or younger through online dating.
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The UK Government Is Looking to Criminalize Unsolicited Dick Pics
THE NEXT WEB - Mar 8 - The Home Office is taking preliminary steps towards criminalizing "online flashing." In its "Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG)" report, the Home Office proposed 10 commitments it believes will help protect women and girls in the UK - and it's backed with ~ £100M in funding over the next five years. By law, it's considered "indecent exposure" to flash your naked body on the street - and it shouldn't be excused online. In the UK, 41% of women aged 18 to 36 have reportedly received non-consensual sexual images.
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Online Dating Is More Economical
PAYMENTSSOURCE - Mar 6 - Many people find their future spouse online - and there are even financial advantages to doing so. Married couples who met online dated for a shorter period of time before getting hitched than married couples who met offline, saving the online daters thousands of dollars, according to a study by ConverEx Group. The average married couple who met online dated for 18.5 months before reaching the altar while those who met offline dated an average of 42 months.
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One in Two Grindr Users Believe They'll Find True Love on the App
GAYSTARNEWS - Mar 5 - A study by Compare The Market showed 56.5% of Grindr users believe they can find the love of their life on the dating app. Moreover, 84% of Grindr users said they have fallen in love with someone via the app. Her, a dating app for queer women, came in close with 81% of their users saying the same. PlanetRomeo users were the most skeptical to love, with 16.7% answering 'no, love cannot be found on online dating apps.'
by Josh Milton
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Facebook Login: Pinterest Is #1, Tinder Slips to #5
THINKNUM - Mar 5 - Pinterest has topped the monthly usage charts according to Facebook login data. With an average monthly users rank of 2.6, it took the number-one spot ahead of Candy Crush Saga. Tinder slipped to spot #5 for the first time with a 12.3 average users rank.
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Relationships Failing Because of Social Media Usage
THE UHCL SIGNAL - Mar 5 - "We are forgetting how to communicate," says Tony A. Gaskins, Jr., motivational speaker, author and life coach. "Adults are letting 'social media' ruin their relationships. Talk to your partner and stop letting inboxes, likes, and retweets ruin what you're trying to build." In this day and age, most people's lives revolve around their phones and social media. Nowadays, children and adults are spending a lot more time looking at screens and a lot less time having in-person conversations. This lack of face-to-face interaction is having a negative impact on this decade's dating world. A study by Pew Research center reports, "24% of individuals think technology has either a negative or less-than-positive impact on relationships." Another danger of social media on relationships is the tendency for personal affairs to be played out before an audience. In June 2015, a signed law called "Revenge Porn" is defined as a law that involves a person posting explicit photos of an ex or whoever without permission. The Texas law makes revenge porn a Class A misdemeanor with up to a year jail time and $4K fine.
by Kathryn Wickenhofer
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Dating Apps and Netflix Responsible for Fall in 24-hour Alcohol Licences
TELEGRAPH.CO.UK - Mar 4 - Dating apps are partly responsible for a significant decrease in 24-hour alcohol licences, new research has suggested. The number of pubs, bars and nightclubs granted permission to serve alcohol round-the-clock has fallen by a fifth over the past year, according to commercial law firm EMW. (From 919 in 2013 to 742 in 2018). The increasing popularity of Netflix and dating apps has contributed to a "cultural" shift in how people socialise, thereby affecting demand of drinking in late night venues, the research suggests.
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Shaadi: Women Take Charge to Find Life Partners in India
TIMES OF INDIA - Feb 27 - "The female self-created profiles have grown from 40% in 2008 to 50% in 2018 largely contributing to the overall growth of female profiles on the platform. However the ratio of male self-created profiles have remained unchanged since 2008," said Gourav Rakshit, CEO of Shaadi.com. Female users are "sending out 3.5 times more interests" to men than they did in 2008.
by Sindhu Hariharan
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Android Is Ruling the World
DIGITAL INFORMATION WORLD - Feb 25 - Android is the world's leading operating system. Android's presence in the US is currently 38%. However, its market share worldwide is 72% and is expected to cross the 85% mark by 2022. In Q3 2018, the global tablet shipments contained 61% Android powered tablets. Android's biggest mobile phone manufacturer is Samsung, covering 46.3% of the manufacturers' market share, followed by Huawei (9.5%), Xiaomi (6.9%), Oppo (4.7%), Motorola (4.2%) and others. Candy Crush Saga, Pokemon GO and Tinder are the most revenue generating apps on Android with $59 M, $51M and $37M respectively in November last year.
by Ali Siddiqui
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Ways to Combat Competition in the Mobile App Industry
ENTREPRENEUR - Feb 22 - The app industry is one of the fastest and trending businesses in the world today with ~75% of the population being a mobile phone user, 67% of which uses smartphones. According to Statistica, an average of 6,140 mobile apps were released through the Google Play Store every day from the Q3 of 2016 to the Q1 of 2018. When asked about combating competition in the dating app industry, Melissa Hobley, CMO of OkCupid, says, "We are proud of our machine-learning based algorithms." Ishaan Sethi, Co-founder and CEO of Delta App shares that for millennials giving them the security especially on a dating app, can help win the trust of users.
by Bhavya Kaushal
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VCs Aren't Falling in Love With Dating Startups
CRUNCHBASE - Feb 14 - In 2018, venture investors put $127M globally into 27 dating-focused startups. It's certainly tiny compared to the ~$300B in global venture investment across all sectors last year. While the US is home to the majority of funded startups in the dating category, the bulk of investment has gone to China. In 2018, ~80% of dating-related investment went to a single company - Blued, a Grindr-style hookup app for gay men. In 2017, the bulk of capital went to Chinese mobile dating app Tantan, and in 2014, Beijing-based matchmaking site Baihe raised ~$250M. Meanwhile, in the U.S, we are seeing an assortment of startups raising smaller rounds.
by Joanna Glasner
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New Liftoff Report Reveals Dating Apps Surge in Latin America
ADOTAS - Feb 14 - Liftoff released its third annual dating apps research and analysis. Chief among the insights are the rise of Latin America (LATAM), a drop-off in registrations in North America by 485%. Men now outpace women in dating app engagement, but driving subscription remains a hurdle across genders.
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Online Dating Is Literally Changing Humanity
MASHABLE - Feb 13 - For millennia, humans were most likely to marry and/or raise kids with members of their own tribe. That changed a little when we started to sail and settle around the world. In pre-World War II, we were most likely to meet our significant others through family. In the 1950s came the rise of meeting "friends of friends," and that method stayed dominant through the rest of the century. By 2000, 10% of opposite-sex couples and 20% of same-sex couples met via the internet. By 2010, those numbers had reached ~20% and 70%respectively. The Tinder era has supercharged this trend. A Stanford study looked at data in relationship surveys that goes up to 2017, and found that 29% of heterosexual and 65% of gay couples had now met online. There are ~1M Tinder dates every week around the world. Online dating is creating mixed-race couples at a faster rate than our increasingly diverse society would. During the 2000s, the percentage of new marriages that are interracial rose from 10.68% to 15.54%, a huge increase ... the proportion of new interracial marriage jumps again in 2014 to 17.24%, remaining above 17% in 2015 too.
by Chris Taylor
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40% of American Couples Meet Online
QZ - Feb 12 - Some 39% of heterosexual couples that got together in the US in 2017 met online, according to a recently released study by sociologists Michael Rosenfeld and Sonia Hausen of Stanford University and Reuben Thomas of Arizona State University. This was also the case for more than 60% of same-sex couples that year. That makes online dating by far the most common way that American couples now meet. The data also show that between 1995 to 2017, meeting through friends saw the largest decline, from 33% to 20%.
by Dan Kopf
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Latest Online Dating Statistics
AXIOS - Feb 12 - In 2017, 39% of U.S. heterosexual relationships and 65% of same-sex relationships began online, according to Stanford research. More than half of Americans who have used dating apps or sites said they had a positive view of online dating, according to a new Axios/Survey Monkey poll. 72% said they think relationships that begin online are just as or more successful than those that begin offline. Half of LGBQ people polled had a positive view of online dating. By 2040, 70% of people are expected to meet through dating apps. Today's dating app users are willing to pay for more options and control.
by Mike Allen
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Women 'Victims in 63% of Romance Scams'
BBC - Feb 11 - Victims of romance scams - the majority of whom are women - lost an average of £11,145 each last year, according to new data from police reporting centre Action Fraud. ~£50M was lost in these scams in 2018 when fraudsters pretend to be romantically attached. In 2018, 4,555 reports of romance fraud were made to Action Fraud. Total losses were up by 27% compared with the previous year. The total is likely to be higher as many victims are thought to have suffered in secret. The average age of a romance fraud victim is 50 and 63% of victims are women.
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17% of People Using Dating Apps Are There to Cheat
YOUGOV - Feb 6 - New data from YouGov Omnibus shows that 7% of people who have ever used dating apps have used them to cheat on a significant other. One in six (17%) current users of dating apps or websites say that this is one of their reasons for using them. Millennials (11%), parents of children under 18 (11%), and people who are married (10%) are also particularly likely to say that cheating on a partner is one of the reasons they're using a dating app or website. Nearly half (49%) of adults who have ever used a dating app use the services "to find an exclusive romantic partner", while four in ten (39%) use them "to have something fun/interesting to do."
by Jamie Ballard
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75% of Americans Consider Debt a Dating Deal-Breaker
THE MOTLEY FOOL - Feb 5 - 72% of surveyed Americans would reconsider a romantic relationship because of another person's debt, according to a survey from Finder.com. People were most turned off by credit card debt (56%), followed by student loan debt (52%).
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People Are Starting to Prioritize Politics Over Sex in Online Dating
HUFFINGTON POST - Jan 24 - OkCupid says its users are increasingly ruling out anyone with opposing political views. The overall number of women prioritizing politics over sex doubled from 2016 to 2018, and the percentage increased from 27% to 42% across the country. Over the same period, the app has seen a 1,000% increase in political terms on people's profiles.
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