INSAUGA - Oct 22 - Spark, a dating app that launched in Canada last summer, is launching the 'Change My Mind' feature that enables singles to upload a 20-second video stating their opinion on a popularly divisive topic, and other users can respond with a video of their own. One of Spark's recent surveys found 82% of Canadian singles said they are more attracted to people with passionate opinions. The same survey found 70% of respondents said they enjoy debating light-hearted topics with a date, while 73% consider debating with someone to be a form of flirting.
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Canadian Dating App Spark Encourages Singles to Debate
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Bumble Survey Findings Show a Shift Towards 'Slow Dating'
TIMES OF INDIA - Oct 21 - Bumble's recent survey shows that 70% of Bumble users in India claim there is a change in their behaviour and attitude towards dating as compared to before the pandemic. 81% claim they are more open to taking their time getting to know someone. 78% of single Indians are talking for a longer period, and having better quality chats, using Voice Calls and Video chat features in the app. People are spending ~20 mins on average on a video chat or voice call on Bumble in India.
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Online Daters Are More Likely to Catch an STI
DAILY MAIL - Oct 21 - People using dating apps to 'hook up' are more likely to have an sexually transmitted infection and not use protection than those who meet in other ways, a study has found. A team from the Public Health Agency of Sweden surveyed ~14,500 men and women aged 16 to 84 about their sexual behaviour, online dating and health. 11% of men said they'd used the Internet to meet sexual partners, compared to 7% of women.
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Mobile App Usage up 25% in Q3
FOX BUSINESS - Oct 8 - Mobile app usage surged 25% in Q3 as people continue to work and find entertainment online during the coronavirus pandemic, according to App Annie. Google Play downloads increased 10% YOY to a total of 25B while iOS App Store downloads increased 20% to a total of 9B. The top most-downloaded apps were TikTok, Facebook, WhatsApp Messenger, Zoom, Google Meet, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, Snack Video, Telegram and Snapchat. Apps that received the most consumer spend include Tinder, TikTok and YouTube. Consumer app spending also reached record highs amid COVID-19. On the App Store, spending increased 20% YOY to $18B in the Q3, and spending on Google Play grew 35% YOY to $10B.
by Audrey Conklin
See full article at Fox Business
This post also appears on VerySocialNetwork.
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More Singles Are Fast Tracking New Relationships
NEW YORK TIMES - Oct 8 - Americans are dating with an intention that some experts say that they haven't seen before. Many experts, along with daters themselves, say that daters have become more likely to couple up, to lower their standards and to do what they can to find a partner to face whatever comes next. Hinge's surveys indicate that 69% of the app's users are "thinking more about who they're really looking for" and 50% say they are "no longer chasing after people who aren't interested in them." A survey of 2K dating app users Match conducted between July and August, showed that 59% of daters were considering a wider range of people as potential partners and that 55% were fast tracking new relationships more than before the pandemic.
by Jonah Engel Bromwich & Sandra E. Garcia
See full article at New York Times
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Lockdown Loneliness Leads to 600 Reports of Online Dating Fraud a Month
SKY NEWS - Oct 9 - ~600 reports of romance scams per month were made to UK Action Fraud during June, July and August. Police forces and other organisations are running a campaign throughout October to raise awareness of romance fraud, following a 26% increase in reports to Action Fraud in the past year. The average victim loses ~ £10K. Losses reported by victims between August 2019 and August 2020 totalled £66M. The Match Group is running romance fraud protection ads throughout October on their platforms. City of London Police is also working with money transfer companies to help block transfers suspected of being linked to romance scams.
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Online Dating Significantly Speeds up Relationships
INDEPENDENT.CO.UK - Oct 8 - Digital daters can tell if they have a connection with someone after just 30 seconds of a video call, a new poll by Virgin Media has shown. Virtual dates soared by 36% during lockdown – with six in 10 single people admitting they enjoy the "new dating normal". One in four will continue to keep up virtual dating even after lockdown fully ends, to screen out non-starters in the search for romance. The research also found that 55% of 1K daters surveyed felt their virtual relationships blossom much faster than they would in person.
by Richard Jenkins
See full article at Independent.co.uk
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Match's Annual Singles in America Survey - Video Is the New First Date
PR NEWSWIRE - Oct 6 - Match has released initial findings from its 10th annual Singles in America study. This 2020 data on 5k singles provides insight into how singles navigated dating during a year of unparalleled political, economic and social change. 58% of single app daters have shifted toward more intentional dating in the wake of the pandemic. 52% have changed the qualities they look for in a potential partner and 44% say they had more meaningful conversations with a date in the last month. Daters are focusing less on looks and more on honesty, transparency and meaningful conversations. About one in four singles broke up during lockdown (26%), and 22% of singles lost contact with a potential date. One in five singles video dated during the pandemic (19%), including half of Gen Z singles (50%) and 1/3 of Millennials (29%), an ~25% increase in video dating over the last 3 years.
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Account Takeover Fraud up 282%
TECH REPUBLIC - Oct 2 - Account takeover (ATO) fraud attempts to steal from consumers and e-commerce merchants was up 282% between Q2 2019 to Q2 2020, according to the new data from digital trust and safety provider Sift finds. ATO attacks create significant and lasting brand damage. In surveying 1,000 US adult consumers, Sift said it found that more than one-quarter (28%) of respondents would completely stop using a site or service if their accounts on that site were hacked. Of consumers who confirmed being victims of ATO attacks, ~61% said their e-commerce accounts were hacked. Other online destinations on which consumers reported experiencing ATO include: Social media sites: 36%, financial services sites: 35%, online dating sites: 22% and travel sites: 19%.
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Dating Apps Saw a 398% Jump in Daily Active Users in India in Q2
EXCHANGE4MEDIA - Sep 3 - India has seen a 398% jump in daily active users on dating apps, according to the Global Mobile Consumer Trends Report 2020. India also saw a 413% jump in downloads by new users.
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More Swiping, Less Meeting: How Online Dating Has Gone More Virtual
SCMP - Aug 26 - Online dating apps are more popular than before, but users are becoming more selective about meeting up in person amid social distancing measures. Instead, daters are chatting on apps longer, and getting creative with virtual options such as video calls, online games and Netflix Party. In a survey of ~1,200 Hong Kong-based users in late July, Coffee Meets Bagel found that 95% said it was "at least somewhat important" that their date took Covid-19 precautions seriously, with 8 in 10 considering it a deal-breaker if their date did not wear a mask, and 7 out of 10 feeling the same if their date did not adhere to social distancing guidelines.
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Online Dating Is a Growing Industry But 2021 Will Be Tougher
DALLAS BUSINESS JOURNAL - Aug 25 - Dating-app users are set to jump by 18% in the U.S. this year to ~26M, according to eMarketer. That comes after a gain of less than 7% in 2019. Still, eMarketer pointed to a slower future after the pandemic of 2020. The number of American users is set to decline in 2021 by 8%.
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Key Takeaways on Americans' Views of Dating and Relationships
PEW RESEARCH - Aug 21 - Dating has always come with challenges. But the advent of dating apps and other new technologies - as well as the #MeToo movement - presents a new set of norms and expectations for American singles looking for relationships, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey. Here are the kew takeaways:
- 15% of U.S. adults say they are single and looking for a committed relationship or casual dates.
- Nearly half (47%) of all Americans say dating is harder today than it was 10 years ago. Women are much more likely than men to say dating has gotten harder (55% vs. 39%). The reason is increased risk, including physical risks as well as the risk of getting scammed or lied to.
- Technology tops the list of reasons why people think dating has gotten easier in the last decade.
- A majority (57%) of women - and 35% of men - say they have experienced some kind of harassing behavior from someone they were dating or had been on a date with.
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Dating Apps Are Growing and Becoming More Virtual
EMARKETER - Aug 21 - eMarketer forecasts the number of smartphone dating app users in the US will reach 26.6M this year, up 18.4% YOY. Dating apps began to see a lot more activity at the start of the pandemic. In an April 2020 survey from The Harris Poll, US adults said they were more frequently using social media (50%), virtual meeting sites (33%) and dating apps (11%).
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Mumbai Is Hotbed of Sugar Dating, Delhi Close Second
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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