DAILYMAIL.CO.UK - June 30 - Badoo has launched a new safety feature that uses AI to detect unsolicited nudes that get sent through the app. Badoo says its 'private detector' has a 98% accuracy rate when covering up intimate photos. The AI identifies potentially offending photos, automatically blurs them and gives users a warning that they could contain 'inappropriate content'. The feature was introduced to the 'feminist dating app' Bumble last year, which is owned by the same holding company as Badoo.
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Badoo Launches New AI Tool That Detects Explicit Photos
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Dating Apps in Balkan
BALKAN INSIGHT - June 29 - Like the rest of the world, the Balkans has seen a rise in the use of dating apps during the pandemic, with data showing the length of daily conversations is increasing. While Tinder is the most popular dating app across Europe, in Romania and Bulgaria it is Badoo that is used the most. Created in 2006 by Russian entrepreneur Andrey Andreev, Badoo now has ~450M users globally, with daily messages sent between users exceeding 350M. "Our data shows that more conversations are happening now, with increases of up to 35%," said Tristan Pineiro, Badoo's global head of communications. In other Balkan countries, dating apps are used more sparingly. One such place is North Macedonia, where the use of dating apps like Tinder are still frowned upon. For some, Instagram functions as a dating app instead.
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Badoo Swipes Right on Inaugural Global Agency Partner
PRWEEK - Apr 23 - Badoo has appointed Grayling as its first strategic global communications agency. Grayling will work with Badoo's communications and marketing teams to create campaigns that support its brand mission of 'Date honestly'.
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The Top Dating Industry News for Feb 4th
OPW - Feb 4 - Match Group's new CEO, Andrey Andreev moves on, US Inquiry Over Underage Use, Tinder & GDPR, Grindr hit with a class-action lawsuit.
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MagicLab Billionaire Andreev to Launch New Mobile App Business
FINANCIAL TIMES - Jan 31 - Blackstone's all-cash acquisition of Mr Andreev's stake in MagicLab (Badoo, Bumble) closed this week, valuing the group at around $3bn. Mr Andreev (45) said. "It's given me ability, time and money . . . I don't want to retire." He said that one idea is focused on charity and donations - something he wants to make "more accessible . . . the same as what I did with dating". MagicLab is now led by Whitney Wolfe Herd. Andreev founded Badoo (now 425m+ users) in 2006 as a hybrid of social networking and dating and pioneered the "freemium" business model. A non-compete agreement with Magic Lab means that Mr Andreev will no longer be in the dating business. Twenty former Magic Lab staff have joined him in a new venture, based in Mayfair, that will retain Mr Andreev's longstanding focus on mobile apps and social networking. He plans to hire more soon.
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MagicLab Told to Implement Workplace Reforms After Sexism Allegations
FORTUNE - Jan 30 - MagicLab, the parent company of Bumble and Badoo, should reform its workplace policies following allegations of sexual harassment, a U.K. law firm has found. MagicLab hired Doyle Clayton, a British firm specializing in employment law, to investigate allegations of a misogynistic and hostile work environment for women raised in a July Forbes story. In its statement, Doyle Clayton said there was "a lack of credible evidence in relation to most" of 24 specific allegations Forbes raised in its story, including "the more serious ones." It did, however, find there was evidence to support three allegations, which it described as "minor".
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Video Calling - the Next Big Thing in 2020
MIRROR.CO.UK - Jan 7 - Badoo was the first dating app to test video feature in 2016, which can only be activated once both parties have matched and exchanged one message. The call happens through the app so there's no need to share any personal details like a phone number. Tristan Pineiro, head of communications, claims that the chances of a real life date being a success are higher if you've had a video call before.
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Top Grossing Dating Apps Worldwide for November 2019
SENSOR TOWER - Dec 16 - The top grossing dating app worldwide for Nov 2019 was Tinder with ~$82M in user spending, which is up 12% YOY. 41% of Tinder's revenue was from the US, followed by 8% from UK and 4% from Germany. Bumble was #2 with ~$18M in gross revenue, up 29% YOY. 77% of Bumble's revenue was from the U.S., followed by 9% from UK. The next top grossing app was Badoo, followed by Pairs and Tantan.
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Top Grossing Dating Apps Worldwide for October 2019
SENSORTOWER - Nov 13 - The top grossing dating app worldwide for Oct 2019 was Tinder with ~$88.7M in user spending, which represented 18% growth from Oct 2018. ~43% of Tinder's revenue was from the U.S., followed by 7% from UK and 5% from Australia. Bumble was #2 with ~$20M in gross revenue, which represented 44% growth YOY. 77% of Bumble's revenue was from the U.S., followed by 9% from UK. The next top grossing app was Tantan, followed by Pairs and Badoo.
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OPW Podcast - The Top Dating Industry News for Nov 12th
OPW - Nov 12 - Match Results, Magic Lab Acquisition, The Meet Group, Facebook & Tinder whitelisting.
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Andrey Andreev Sells Stake of Bumble's Parent Company MagicLab to Blackstone
TECH CRUNCH - Nov 9 - Andrey Andreev, the founder of Badoo, is selling his entire stake in MagicLab, the company that owned both Bumble and Badoo (and other dating apps), to Blackstone, which is one of the world's leading investment firms. He will step away from the business in the process, and Wolfe Herd, Bumble's founder, becomes the CEO of the whole company, retaining much of her stake in the business. That stake is at ~19%. The deal values MagicLab at $3B. Blackstone also will be making an investment in the company as part of the deal.
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Mark Zuckerberg Let Tinder Get Special Access to Users' Data
FORBES - Nov 8 - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg considered entering the online dating business as far back as 2014, but he put the idea on the back burner, instead giving Tinder special access to its users' data, leaked emails between top executives show. The leaked correspondence is part of an ongoing lawsuit between Facebook and Six4Three, a now-defunct app developer that sued Facebook in 2015 for restricting user data access, alleging the actions were uncompetitive. The correspondence shows how perilously close Tinder came to losing key access to Facebook user information that helped Tinder grow rapidly in its early years, when members often used their Facebook logins to access the app. When Facebook further restricted the kind of information third-party apps could access after the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke in March 2018, Tinder's app crashed. Tinder was on Facebook's radar in 2013. Zuckerberg wrote in January 2014 to two executives: "Tinder's growth is especially alarming to me because their product is built completely on Facebook data, and it's much better than anything we've built for recommendations using the same corpus." In 2014, Facebook announced it would start preventing third-party app developers from having access to data on users' friends, including birth dates, photos and pages they liked. The company gave a May 2015 deadline for developers to comply with its new set of access rules. However, Zuckerberg made some companies and apps an exception. Tinder was one. Facebook agreed to give Tinder a special data-sharing agreement, internally known as "whitelists," if the dating app shared trademark rights on "MOMENTS." which was the planned name for a photo app that Facebook wanted to launch, an email exchange in March 2015 showed. When asked about this agreement in 2018, a spokeswoman for Tinder said: "Tinder never received special treatment, data or access related to this dispute or its resolution." Other dating apps that had whitelist agreements with Facebook include Bumble, Badoo, Coffee Meets Bagel, Hinge and jSwipe.
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CMO of Badoo at ad:tech About LGBTQ+ Support
TECHERATI - Oct 21 - Dominic Gallello is the CMO at Badoo. In this interview for ad:tech London, Dominic talks about Badoo's support of the LGBTQ+ community, the male mental health crisis, whether we can use technology to facilitate change.
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Mel B to Launch a Dating Podcast With Badoo
INDEPENDENT.CO.UK - Oct 17 - Melanie Brown, aka Mel B, has ventured into the podcasting world with a new series "The Truth Flirts", created by dating app Badoo. Each week, Mel B will be joined by a panel of celebrity guests to discuss the highs and lows of dating. Guests reveal their truthful opinions on topics from ghosting to gold diggers, politics to parenthood. Mel B revealed that she isn't on dating apps herself but finds the concept "fascinating".
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Badoo's First Dating Show - Badoo Dating SOS
THE SCOTTISH SUN - Oct 8 - A woman who was branded fat on a Tinder date gone wrong is starring in a rival app Badoo's new online dating show - Badoo Dating SOS. Jade Savage, 28, spent four hours travelling to see a man she had met online but he insulted her as she walked out of the train station. The creep told curvy size-14 Jade she had "put some weight on" and accused her of looking nothing like she had on a previous date - just four weeks earlier. Jade managed to raise £1K on a GoFundMe page, which she set up as a joke, to get her wasted £93 that she spent going on her date. The Badoo online show sees Jade go on two dates with men that the dating app experts have chosen for her.
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