MIRROR.CO.UK - June 8 - According to Badoo research honesty is one of the most attractive traits when it comes to online dating. People who live at home with their parents and drink heavily have been revealed to be the most eligible daters online. Analysing 5K users, the dating site found people who reveal niche information, about themselves such as whether they want children someday, were more popular than those who didn't. Female users who claimed to have or want children someday were the most right-swiped, whereas male users who claimed to not want children were top of the list.
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The Most Eligible Online Daters - Big Drinkers Who Live With Parents
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Russian Authorities Ask Tinder to Hand Over User Data
INDEPENDENT.CO.UK - June 3 - On Monday, authorities confirmed that Tinder had been reclassified as an "information provider". Under Russia's controversial anti-terrorism legislation, that means that the tech company will now be required to store and hand over user data: encryption passwords, geolocation details, photo and video content. While Tinder currently encrypts messages, the company's own terms state that user data can be handed over on request from security services. Russia's security services want to make that process automatic. Tinder has yet to comment on the change, but may be blocked if it does not comply with the request. Two of the country's most popular sites – Mamba and Wamba – were added to the state information register in 2014. Badoo followed three years later.
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China's Tinder - Tantan - Is Rising in India
QUARTZ - May 9 - Tantan, China's favourite dating app, is now the fifth-most popular in India by combined monthly active users on iOS and Android phones, according to App Annie. In May 2018, Tantan did not feature among the top 10, but zoomed to the 4th position by July. It has since slid one spot following the launch of Bumble in December.
Top dating apps in India
(as on May 2018) (as on March 2019)
1. Tinder 1. Tinder
2. Happn 2. Happn
3. Azar 3. Azar
4. Badoo 4. Bumble
5. OkCupid 5. Tantan
Tantan translates in Mandarin to "talk." Launched in 2014, the app bears a high resemblance to Tinder, and was acquired by the Chinese social network Momo in February 2018. Tantan has ~90M registered users in China. The dating app has been advertising aggressively on TikTok.
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Bumble's Louise Troen on Censoring Dick Pics Using AI
THE NEXT WEB - May 9 - Bumble has recently introduced AI to automatically censor unsolicited dick pics to make online dating for women a safer and friendlier space. Starting in June, users of dating apps including Bumble, Badoo, Chappy, and Lumen will have access to the AI-based tool "Private Detector." The tool, which allegedly has a 98% accuracy in spotting nudes, will warn users of an image it deems as "lewd" or offensive. "Putting women's safety first is out top priority," says Louise Troen, Bumble's VP of Internal Marketing and Communications in the UK. "We have 1000s of moderators, all around the world, looking for it. AI is built into Bumble that can monitor and find images like this."
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Badoo Is Looking For a Co-Founder Of Its New Live-streaming Product
LINKEDIN - May 6 - Badoo is looking for an individual with experience content sourcing, live-streaming and launching a commercially successful product.
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Badoo & Bumble's "Private Detector" Uses AI to Detect Dick Pics
TECH CRUNCH - Apr 25 - "Private Detector" feature will identify inappropriate photos and label them as such in chat, giving users the option to view the photo or report the user. Badoo CEO Andrey Andreev opted to have his team build the tech in-house. The company claims 98% accuracy. This feature fits into something Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd has been promoting - safe online dating for women with less harassment. Wolfe Herd has started approaching the issue of unsolicited illicit photos from a legislative track as well. She has been working with the Texas state legislature to pass a bill that makes it illegal to send clearly unsolicited lewd photos. The "Private Detector" functionality goes live in June on Bumble as well as on Badoo, Chappy and Lumen.
by Lucas Matney
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Walt Disney and Badoo Join Companies Pledging Money to Rebuild Notre-Dame
TECH CRUNCH - Apr 17 - Walt Disney and dating app Badoo are the latest companies to pledge funds for the rebuilding of Notre-Dame after the historic cathedral sustained severe damage in a fire earlier this week. Disney is giving $5M, while Badoo will donate all of its April profits from its 22M users in France. In total, ~$1B in total has been pledged from individuals and companies. President Emmanuel Macron has set an ambitious five-year plan to restore Notre-Dame, though restoration experts say it may take as many as 15 years.
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50% of Dutch Online Daters Downloaded Tinder
DUTCH TECH MAGAZINE - Apr 7 - In the Netherlands, Tinder is downloaded on average 46,854 times a month. Last year there were more than half a million Tinder downloads (566,946). The number of singles in the Netherlands is growing steadily with an average increase of 1.7% over the past five years. Last year there were ~3M singles in the Netherlands. 50% of the Dutch daters have downloaded Tinder. Badoo comes second with a 25% share. Lexa.nl (18%), Happn (15%) and Relatieplanet (11%) fill the top five most popular dating apps.
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Badoo, Owner of Bumble, Pays Women 33% Less Than Men
BLOOMBERG - Apr 4 - One year after U.K.-based businesses were forced to report their gender pay gap, there has been some change from tech companies, but not all of it in the right direction. Facebook is now paying female staff less on average, but has hired more women in senior positions. Amazon.com, which still employs about the same number of men and women in top jobs, has improved the gap in average pay, while Uber and WeWork both revealed a sizable pay gaps. Dating app maker Badoo, which also operates the female-focused Bumble service, pays women 33% less than men, and women occupy 14% of top jobs at the company.
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Quirky Dating Apps Set to Rival Tinder and Bumble
DAILYMAIL.CO.UK - Mar 15 - Growlr, Smell Dating and Unveil are generating successful matches in unique ways - including asking users to talk to each other before seeing their photos and matching people based on celebrities they like.
- Unveil - This app presents potential partners via a blurred photo screen and the only way to 'unlock' their image is to talk to them on the phone.
- Badoo - A new Badoo's feature allows users to name a celebrity they'd ideally like to date and the app will find matches who look just like them.
- Smell Dating - This company will send a shirt to its members that they have to wear for three days without deodorant, and then mail it back only to be sent shirt options from other people who did the same thing. The scent they like the most will then be revealed and contact details exchanged on the app.
by Matilda Rudd
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Lumen, Dating App for 50+, Attracted 350k Users
OPW - Mar 5 - Lumen, the dating app for 50+, is proud to announce the 350k users milestone today. The app launched in the app store 6 months ago, and raised £3.5M from Andrey Andreev, the Founder of Badoo.
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Lulu Founder Is Considering IPO for Her Cannabis Company
CITYAM - Mar 1 - UK Cannabis firm Jacana heads towards floatation after securing $20M in private investment. Serial entrepreneur Alexandra Chong, the company's co-founder, said "all options were on the table" in terms of funding, as Jacana seeks to expand its production facility in Jamaica to meet the demand for medicinal cannabis in the UK. After making her name with the women-only dating app Lulu, which was sold to Badoo in 2016, Chong said she was focusing on her "passion project" of creating the "champagne of cannabis".
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Tycoons of Love: The Men Who Run Online Dating
THINKNUM - Feb 16 - The world of dating apps is dominated by four companies - Match Group, The Meet Group, Badoo and Spark. Here are the four men behind these companies.
Match Group - Barry Diller
Born in San Fran in 1942, 77 year-old Barry Diller is Chairman and Senior Executive of IAC and Expedia. Diller married fashion designer Diane von Fürstenberg in 2001 and is now estimated to be worth $3.3B. He also created the Fox Broadcasting Company and USA Broadcasting. On top of creating his own empire in media, Diller's influence has spread to those who he mentored - colloquially called the "Killer Dillers" - which included former Disney Chairman & CEO Michael Eisner and Dawn Leslie Steel, one of the first woman to become the head of a major movie studio.
The Meet Group - Geoff Cook
Geoff isn't The Meet Group's founder. That honor goes to his younger brother and sister, Dave and Catherine Cook. Dave and Catherine created myYearbook in 2005 as a place for ex-classmates to meet up online. Geoff became the company's power player after investing $250K that he made from his EssayEdge and ResumeEdge startups he created in his Harvard dorm room.
Badoo - Andrey Andreev
Born in February 1974 in Moscow, Russia, Andreev founded Badoo, SpyLog, Begun, and Mamba. He also famously convinced ex-Tinder exec Whitney Wolfe Herd to create Bumble, of which Badoo is a 79% owner. Andreev was recently listed by Forbes as one of the world's richest people, estimated to be worth $1.5B.
Spark Networks - Jeronimo Folgueira
Before taking over Spark in 2017, Jeronimo was a Managing Director at Betfair plc (now Paddy Power plc). The Columbia Business School grad took over the reigns of all of Spark Networks SE when JDate and Christian Mingle-focused Spark merged with Affinitas GmbH.
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The Top iDate Awards Results
OPW - Feb 11 - The following awards were made at the iDate Awards:
- Best Dating Site - Badoo
- Best Mobile Dating App - Tinder
- Best Product Design - Ukraine Brides Agency
- Best Dating Software/SAAS - Dating Pro
- Best Marketing Campaign - Bumble
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36% of Brits Would Go on a First Date to a Gym Class
MIRROR.CO.UK - Jan 17 - Badoo surveyed its users on which alcohol-free dates they'd be willing to go on. The top suggestion (92%) was a coffee date, followed by a winter walk (77%) or an expedition to the cinema (66%). 36% said they go on a first date to a gym class, while 9% would go to the spa.
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Who Got the Most News Coverage in 2018?
OPW - Jan 13 - Every day we review the news and bubble up what we think are summaries of the most important intell in the most important news items. All year, every day. Then in January we like to do an annual review of the news and let you know who got the most coverage on OPW.news for the prior year. Subscribe here for daily updates.
Here's the rankings for who got the most press coverage on OPW.news in 2018.
- Tinder, 182 posts on OPW.news
- Bumble, 116 posts
- Match Group, 105 posts
- Facebook Dating, 58 posts
- Grindr, 40 posts
- Badoo, 33 posts
- eharmony, 33 posts
- Match, 29 posts
- OKCupid, 28 posts
- Hinge, 24 posts
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Facebook Also Let Dating Apps Have Further Access to Graph API Back in 2015
ARS TECHNICA - Dec 6 - UK MP releases 250 pages of materials obtained as part of Six4Three debacle. The documents from Facebook show that the company allowed even more companies including dating apps Badoo, HotorNot and Bumble to access the v1.0 Graph API back in 2015. The documents, known as the "Six4Three files," were published by Damian Collins, a member of the UK Parliament. Collins is the chair of the Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport (DCMS) Committee in Parliament, which has been overseeing inquiries into Facebook's practices. "The files show evidence of Facebook taking aggressive positions against apps, with the consequence that denying them access to data led to the failure of that business," Collins concluded. Six4Three is a long-forgotten company that has for years pursued a lawsuit against Facebook alleging that it was shut out from being allowed to access the Graph API, as it was too small. Six4Three made a short-lived app called "Pikinis," which sought bikini photos on Facebook. It was only downloaded ~5,000 times. Lawyers for Six4Three have long argued what Collins concluded: once small apps were shut off, they were driven out of busines.
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What Dating Apps Can Tell Us About Why We Fall in love
THEWEEK.CO.UK - Nov 21 - How and why people fall in love is still not entirely clear. Scientists are aligned in saying that opposites don't generally attract. Rather, we tend to love people who share our values and outlook on life and who are of similar age and attractiveness. Falling in love is a slow process that can take months, but recognising the potential for love can happen quickly. It takes seven seconds or less to form a first impression of somebody and know whether there is a spark. Humans make unconscious judgements using visual cues. With dating apps however, we have to rely on static photographs and written conversations. Badoo users tend to match with similarly aged people and with those of similar popularity. The attraction happens after the swiping process. But Badoo users tend to message just 50% of their matches so swiping "yes" is therefore not necessarily an indicator of attraction. When the messaging starts, it takes users around two days and 20 messages to decide whether to date someone. This is slower than in person, which is why Badoo encourages its users to go on dates early.
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Lumen, the Dating App for 50+ to Launch in Ireland
MARKETING.IE - Nov 20 - Lumen founder and dating expert Charly Lester will be in Dublin this week for the launch. Lumen raised £3.5M from Andrey Andreev, the Founder of Badoo.
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Badoo Finds a Dramatic Increase in Matches During 'Cuffing Season'
CNET - Nov 12 - Cuffing season refers to that "the weather outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful" period when singles are typically more eager to be "cuffed," or shackled, to a significant other. Badoo found that matches increased by 105% for women and 67% for men in the winter, compared to in the summer. Badoo surveyed 2K of its users, and 71% of respondents admitted they search for a soulmate in the winter because it's the most romantic season to date.
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