ITWORLD CANADA - Filteroff is a dating app that schedules users for a 90-second video chat with each other. Filteroff's Scammer Detection System kicks into full gear when a user signs up. When a scammer is detected, the app snags them from the normal dating pool and places them in a separate dark dating pool full of other scammers and bots.
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Podcast: How Dating App Filteroff Deals With Scammers
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How Filteroff Attracted a $2M Investment From Brewing Giant AB InBev
BUSINESS INSIDER - AB InBev is known for beer brands such as Bud Light, Stella Artois, and Hoegaarden. ZX Ventures, the beverage giant's venture arm, made a $2M investment in Filteroff, a dating app that connects people through digital and in-person events. The companies collaborate on in-person dating events that AB InBev supplies with beer. Filteroff, launched in 2019, hosts virtual speed-dating events through its app, where attendees talk on video chat and have the option to set up a second date later. The app has also started organizing events where singles can meet face-to-face over a beer.
by Alex Bitter
See full article at Business Insider
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Filteroff Flooded Its Dating App With Bots to Scam Scammers
MEDIUM.COM - Brian Weinreich and his co-founder Zach recently started Filteroff, a video dating app, and as user numbers grew, so did the number of scammers harassing people for money. When a user signs up, Filteroff's Scammer Detection System kicks into full gear. When a scammer is detected, the app snags them from the Normal Dating Pool and places them in a separate Dark Dating Pool full of other scammers and bots. They built a bot army full of profiles with fake photos and GPT-3 (a tech that lets computers talk like humans) to chat with the scammers.
by Brian Weinreich
See full article at Medium
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How Filteroff Dumped Traditional Online Dating
STRATEGY ONLINE - Filteroff is a dating app that blends an online platform with more personal interaction than swiping left or right. Users create a profile and are set up on three curated dates. They just determine the time with their date, then hop on a three-minute video chat and decide afterward if they'd like to pursue the match. "Our community loves the ability to meet people before the IRL experience," says founder Zach Schleien. "It's like the first date before the first date. We're all about meeting people, not profiles."
by Chelsea Clarke
See full article at Strategy Online
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The Future of Dating in the Metaverse
MEDIA POST - In general, the metaverse is years away from being a (virtual) reality. There have been official weddings in the metaverse, apps that pay users in crypto to date in the metaverse, and Match.com is preparing to expand into virtual worlds. We asked Zach Schleien, founder of video speed-dating app, Filteroff, what he thinks about dating in the metaverse.
Q: What is your vision for the metaverse dating?
A: It is still years away. Right now we're not playing in the metaverse, not until the technology improves to the point where audio can be spatial and video can be immersive.
Q: Where would your app start and end in the metaverse? Why leave the metaverse to go on a "real date" if it's a fully immersive experience?
A: We want users to meet and find their person. The metaverse, we believe, is just another medium - a more authentic medium when the technology advances - to see if you have chemistry.
Q: How soon do you see your company approaching a mixed-reality model?
A: Video is the one that makes the most sense now. In the future when the technology is there, we'll play there.
Q: Do you know if any brands are approaching dating apps in virtual worlds right now?
A: I've never heard of any video-dating company that's been successful in the metaverse. It's quite premature and doesn't lead to an authentic experience.
Q: What are the brand implications for dating in the metaverse?
A: You have to be really careful in terms of security and privacy.
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Filteroff to Host Speed Dating Event for Boston Marathon Runners and Fans
BOSTON GLOBE - Filteroff, a video speed dating app, is hosting an April 11 event for people attending the Boston Marathon as runners, friends, family, or fans. Users will be matched with up to "eight people, based on their preferences. The dates will last ~3 minutes," explained Zach Schleien, co-founder of the Filteroff. Filteroff launched in February of 2020 - a complicated time to start a dating business. But Schleien said the pandemic changed people's perceptions of video dates. "We've hosted ~13K virtual speed dating events."
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Filteroff's Zach Schleien on How Pandemic Has Changed Online Dating
FINACIAL EXPRESS - From a safety as well as efficiency perspective, the acceptance of video dating has accelerated. Today, research suggests that most singles prefer to video chat before meeting up in person. Filteroff is a video-based speed dating app launched during the pandemic. "Prior to the pandemic, it was primarily a swipe-based market. During the pandemic, the value of quality dating increased. Therefore, a lot of swipe-based apps incorporated video into their functioning. However, the whole process of swipe, match, message is still considered long. With Filteroff, we make videos the forefront of user experience," said Zach Schleien, founder of Filteroff.
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Video Dating App, Filteroff, to Host Virtual Date Nights
RHODEISLANDINNO - Filteroff is a dating app that schedules users for a 90-second video chat after with each other. Users can give each other a "thumbs up”" or "thumbs down" afterward. If they both like each other, they can chat, schedule calls or meet in person. Since its launch in 2020, Filteroff has spread to New York City, London and Los Angeles. The app has hosted ~7K virtual events in under two years and is starting to spread into other markets. Next month, the company is hosting the first virtual date night with residents in Rhode Island.
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Zach Schleien - Making Strong Human Connections With Video-first Dating
LTR - May 10 - Video chatting offers a more natural way of making human connections compared to text chatting. Zach Schleien, CEO & Co-Founder of Filter Off, believes video-first dating will revolutionize the market. The pandemic lockdowns created significant physical and social barriers. Video technology was adopted rapidly in the business world, as well as dating apps, to counter these obstacles. Schleien believes that dating apps which have integrated video secondary to profile introductions are missing a massive opportunity to improve the user experience. Zach Schleien shares the lessons he learned developing Filter Off's video speed dating in the latest video in the LTR Conference series.
LTR stands for Love, Technology, Relationships and the online conference covers the Internet dating and Online Social Communities space. It is for members of IDEA and OSCA.
The February LTR was kindly sponsored by RealMe, vPaaS by The Meet Group, Utopia Analytics, Tawkify, Real Gifts & Courtland Brooks.
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What's Trending: Filter Off, a New Video Speed Dating App
KENS5 - Jan 25 - Digital Journalist Megan Ball chats with Zach Schleien, the cofounder of Filter Off, a new video speed dating app that focuses on people rather than profile photos.
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Filter Off to Host Video Speed Dating Sessions
THE DC POST - Sep 8 - Filter Off, a video speed dating app, is organizing a series of events for single individuals living in the DC area to meet each other every Friday. The DC-specific sessions will provide users with three video-chatting dates, each of them 90 seconds long.
by Jane Smith
See full article at The DC Post
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Filter Off, a New Dating app That Revolves Around Video Speed Dates
MOBILE MARKETING MAGAZINE - May 8 - Filter Off's co-founder and CEO Zach Schleien discusses what the COVID-19 pandemic has done to the online dating scene, and why people are more inclined to use video dating. "I've used all the dating apps, and it's a very long process from start to finish. We wanted to cut out all that swiping, messaging back and forth, followed by bad first dates, and just allow users to see each other face to face at a really authentic human level and see if the two people vibe right off the bat." Filter Off schedules 90-second "blind" video dates for users. At the end of the 90 seconds, they can either do a thumbs-up or a thumbs-down. If both give each other a thumbs-up, they're entered into a match like every other dating app. At that point they can either send a video message or send a text message. Schleien believes that the social isolation and loneliness that has been a side effect of the COVID-19 crisis has encouraged more and more singles to try out video dating.
by Alyssa Clementi
See full article at Mobile Marketing Magazine
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Offline-only Dating Apps in India See Surge in Users
ECONOMIC TIMES - May 7 - Startups like Floh, SirfCoffee, Aisle, MyScoot and FilterOff are offering virtual poetry and cookery sessions and speed dates online among other activities. These apps have seen a 20% increase in new users, mostly busy professionals. SirfCoffee has set up over 200 personalised virtual dates in the comfort of our members' homes,” said Naina Hiranandani, co-founder of SirfCoffee. "We now host weekly Zoom events on various relationship topics," says Siddharth Mangharam, founder and CEO of Floh. "We are looking at hosting only interactive activities online like brewing coffee without equipment. So, users with an interest in coffee will join the session," says Suyash Sinha, founder of MyScoot. Bengaluru-based Aisle, on the other hand, is hosting online group activities through Zoom. These activities include games like Pictionary. After the activity, users connect with other members. US-headquartered FilterOff permits users to have a 90-second video chat session with the selected dating partners, before proceeding with the virtual date.
by Sanghamitra Kar
See full article at Economic Times
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Q&A With Zach Schleien of 'Filter Off'
YOUR STORY - Apr 30 - Dating app 'Filter Off', launched in February 2020 as a video-based app that helps conversations move forward. Zach Schleien, Founder of Filter Off discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting people's dating lives, how video and speed dating are currently trending, and how the 'Filter Off' app is providing international quarantine singles' events.
Q: What was your main aim/goal with Filter Off?
A: To create authentic human connections. It isn’t about swiping and messaging back and forth, but being up-front and seeing if users are a good match.
Q: How do you stand out from other dating apps?
A: "Filter Off" is primarily video first. It allows users to see a person face to face through a video in a 90-second time frame. If they like each other and they match then they can message or FaceTime.
Q: How is 'Filter Off' helping potential couples during the lockdown?
A: We offer three date nights a week, where people meet over video. We are also offering international quarantine single events weekly so singles can date wherever they're located.
Q: What is the user feedback?
A: The feedback has been great. We know that there are areas we can improve upon and that's why we are adding these events. Events help people deal with loneliness and also find a virtual date.
Q: What do you see the future of dating apps to be like?
A: People will be more comfortable using video.
Q: How do you make sure data privacy is ensured through Filter Off?
A: The video is encrypted in transit as well as at rest in storage.
Q: Are there any new exciting developments you are currently working on for the app?
A: We are going to be rolling out international events, religious events, and interest events in the next week or two. We are also doing our first raise, and raising money to really expand the growth of this app. Right now, we are in New York City and UK, and we will be in India very soon.
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Q&A With co-Founder of Dating App Filter Off
DAILY CALLER - Apr 20 - Zach Schleien, one of the co-founders of the dating app Filter Off, joined the Daily Caller's Stephanie Hamill to discuss virtual dating in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. Like other dating apps, Schleien says his dating app has also seen a significant increase in users during the coronavirus pandemic. Schleien says his dating app is 'catfish-proof,' because people actually are using video to connect rather than posting photos.
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