Online Personals Watch: News on the Online Dating Industry and Business

CEO of Online Personals Group, Carsten Boltz, to Speak at LTR Edition 7

OPW - Apr 13 - TOPIC: How to Build a Global Group of Online Matchmaking Brands

Carsten has worked with Internet dating companies for most of his career, over 20 years. He started out at Friendscout24, and graduated to work with Be2 and to become CEO at Insparx in 2011. Now he leads be2, Academic Singles, Singles50, and C-date. He heads a team of 160 that serve Internet dating services to 37 countries around the world.

LTR Edition 7 is on Thursday 15th April starting 11:30am EST (New York). If you hold a full time leadership role at an Internet dating company then you are welcome to join IDEA for free, and welcome to join LTR events for free. See the LTR Edition 7 overview, speakers and invite page here. Email [email protected] to RSVP for LTR. There are 80 places only.

LTR is kindly sponsored by RealMe, vPaaS by The Meet Group, Utopia Analytics, Tawkify, Real Gifts & Courtland Brooks.

be2 Merges with c-date

OPW - Sep 13 - Exclusive at OPW. We just heard be2 has merged with c-date.com.  A most unusual unison. c-date (circa 2008) does not allow photographs, and is focused on the casual and cheaters market. The company was started by a former FriendScout Director and a multitude of FriendScout employees followed. be2 was founded in April 2005 by sociologist Dr Robert Wuttke, and quickly expanded to over 30 countries. The site is focused on longer term relationships. be2 traffic slipped back in recent times. Probably in part due to a fall in reorders from people who were a tad unhappy at having to send a fax to cancel their membership.

Important Correction and Update: Dr Wuttke corrected me..."Since the beginning of this year, I am not only founder/CEO of be2, but also CEO of C-Date.  be2 and C-Date continue to be two separate companies, however now managed by one team.  That be2’s traffic slipped back is also not correct.  be2 grows at a rate of more than 30% year on year.  Also our customers do not have to send a fax to cancel their membership, but are free to cancel with a convenient prefilled PDF document sent through Email, fax or letter."

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There Is Something For Everyone

ADRESSA.NO - Dec 18 - Niche dating sites are popping up in Norway. Sites for people with special interests make it easier to find like-minded. But not everyone on the Internet is looking for love. Dating site c-date is for casual encounters and relationships without commitment. One of the newest sites in Norway is Victoria Milan. VictoriaMilan is for married people seeking an affair. These kinds of dating sites are not uncommon in other countries, but is the first of its kind in Norway. FULL ARTICLE @ ADRESSA.NO

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C-Date.de, The 2nd Largest Dating Site In Germany

PRESS RELEASE - Aug 23 - According to ComsCore, casual dating site C-Date ranked as #2 dating site in Germany with 564,000 unique visitors in June. C-Date is available in 35 countries and has over 3.1M registered users with 10,000 new users registering each day. In Oct 2009 Nielsen Online also ranked C-Date as #1 dating site in Spain as well as #3 in France and Switzerland. 

The full article was originally published at Open PR, but is no longer available.