BUSINESSWIRE - May 26 - Hily, one of the fastest-growing dating apps in the world that gathered ~11M users just in one year, is now available in Japan. Hily's primary goal is to provide its users with better communication. The app matches the users based on ~40 entry points. Hily's newest feature called Compatibility Quiz allows users to check if they are compatible with people they want to swipe right on. The system will show detailed results with points they had in common and a description of their prospective relationship. For Hily, the Japanese launch is the first move to Asia. Last year, the dating app successfully rolled out to 20 countries in Europe and Latin America.
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Hily Dating App Comes to Japan
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Dating App Hily Launches Video Calls
ABNEWSWIRE - May 21 - According to Hily's last poll of its 1500 users, 52% of respondents would love to try virtual dating. The app is now launching a new video chat feature. Hily enables its users to call only those people with whom they have a match. Also, the users can switch off the video calls function in the settings at any time.
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Hily Is Encouraging Singles to Take Their Profiles More Seriously
DIGITAL JOURNAL - Apr 28 - Dating app Hily has launched a new video campaign called "Is This Profile Really Fake." Five short clips are meant to break myths about the profiles users think are fake. According to Hily's recent survey, singles called fake almost every profile they didn't like. 53% of them believe if the profile has only one picture, it is fake. According to Hily's moderation team, 17% of Hily's verified users have only one image. 48% of users think if a person in the picture is "too beautiful," it means the profile is fake. So this campaign gives users a perspective on what profiles people think are fake and encourage them to take filling in their dating profiles more seriously", says Hily's Head of Business Development Halyna Virt.
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Hily to Adopt Snapchat Stories
DIGITAL JOURNAL - Apr 3 - Dating app Hily is partnering with Snapchat to allow users to share their snaps in Hily profiles. Hily is the first dating app to adopt this new Snapchat feature called App Stories. To post their Snapchat stories to Hily, the users will have to connect the two apps. Everyone on Hily will see a pop-up banner with a set of clear instructions on how to use the new feature. The users will be able to repost Snapchat stories directly or share snaps without publishing them to Snapchat first. Hily (an acronym for "Hey, I like you") is a Las Vegas-based dating app with ~15M users around the globe.
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Taimi Hits 5 Million Users Worldwide
OPEN PR - Apr 1 - Taimi, the LGBTQI+ social network and dating app now has ~5M users. The app launched in 2017 as a gay dating app at first, but in 2019 it became a full fledged LGBTQI+ app. Taimi was created by Alex Pasykov, a founder of a popular dating app Hily.
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Study: Half of American Singles Tried to Score a Last-minute Valentine's Date
MENAFN - Feb 11 - Hily dating app asked 3K of its single users from the U.S. if they feel pressure with Valentine's Day coming. 42% of women and 47% of men struggled to find a date before Valentine's Day just because they didn't want to be alone. Only 6% of female users and 8% of male users have actually succeeded in it. 38% of men and 36% of women feel like they need to find a date. Hily is an acronym for "Hey, I like you". Hily's CEO Alex Pasykov also founded Taimi, the first LGBTQ+ dating app and social network.
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Hily Dating App Hits 10 Million Users
PRESS RELEASE - Dec 16 - The Las Vegas-based dating app Hily has been actively growing since July following launches all around the world. Established in 2017, Hily kicked off as a dating app for the U.S. singles. Now it's a connection making platform available in ~25 countries around the globe. During 2019, Hily launched in 7 European countries, Australia, and all of Latin America. In the next two months, the dating app is also planning to make its first moves to Asia. Hily is an acronym for "Hey, I like you". The app pairs people who are on the same page. Hily's CEO Alex Pasykov also founded Taimi, the first LGBTQ+ Dating App and Social Network.
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Top Dating Apps Worldwide for September
REPUBLIC WORLD - Oct 6 - Tinder was the most downloaded app in the online dating category during September 2019, according to research firm Sensor Tower. Tinder had close to 5.5M installs in September, resulting in a total of 4% increase from the same period last year. Badoo was the second most installed dating app worldwide. Tantan, MeetMe, and Happn rounded out the top five most installed dating apps worldwide for the month. Here is the full list of top 10 dating apps.
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Dating App Hily Is Now Also Popular in Ireland
IRISH POST - Apr 16 - Right after its recently launch in the UK and Ireland, the app made it to the top charts in Apple Store, beating its top competitors in overall download numbers. It is considered to be one of the fastest growing dating apps. "The most interesting things on Hily happen when a user actively engages with the application, swipes left or right, writes messages, sends bubbles," says Hily's co-founder Yan Pronin. "Based on this information, Hily identifies the interests and preferences of each user – things like who this person really likes and which potential matches will generate the best quality interaction."
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Dating App Hily - One of the Fastest Growing Dating App
IRISH TECH NEWS - Mar 27 - Within just 1.5 years after the launch, Hily's team got the app to the top in its category on Apple Store, getting more daily downloads than Bumble in the US and Tinder in the UK. Hily's developers are paying attention to their users' opinions, allowing them to take part in the app development. Hily is very similar to any other dating app out there; however, taking a closer look, you will see plenty of things that make it stand out among its competitors:
- All users are verified by moderators
- Apart from swiping, users can also watch stories.
- The app offers icebreakers to make the start of the conversation easier.
The unique feature of the app is the usage of artificial intelligence. The machine analyses users, likes, matches, and dialogues to create a personalized and best-matching set of potential partners. The more the users swipe, the smarter the machine gets, and the higher are their chances to find someone.
Hily is now planning to launch in Australia, New Zealand, France, and others. This takes a lot of time and effort. At the same time, we are working on the app a lot – adapting it to new countries, making it more inclusive and user-friendly. Very soon we are also planning to make it compatible with different gadgets like smart watches for example.
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Dating App Hily Officially Launches in the UK
PRESS RELEASE - Mar 11 - Hily, the US dating app that stands for "Hey, I Like You", is launching in the UK this week. Hily provides a high level of safety and security through profile verification. The unique feature of the app is the usage of AI. Hily analyses users' likes, matches, and dialogues to create a personalized set of potential partners.
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Dating App Hily to Launch in the UK
PRESS RELEASE - Feb 26 - Hily, a US-based dating app, is launching in the UK at the beginning of March. The unique feature of the app is the usage of AI. Hily analyses users' likes, matches, and dialogues to create a personalized set of potential partners. The more the users swipe, the smarter the machine gets and the higher are their chances to find someone special.
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Dating Apps and Advertising on Snapchat
VERDICT.CO.UK - Dec 8 - With dating apps accounting for £11.7B of the economy last year, and 30% of 18-30 year olds in the US signed up to at least on service, the online dating market is extremely lucrative. Dating apps are looking to reach a young, tech-savvy audience, and many have found a match with Snapchat. Spending by dating services in the UK on the Snapchat platform has increased 13x from Q1 to Q3 this year. Since partnering with Snapchat more than a year ago, AI-driven dating startup Hily has seen a significant increase in the number of registrations. To coincide with Meghan and Harry's Royal Wedding, Meetic ran a campaign on Snapchat in an attempt to increase the number installations. Through this, Meetic reportedly reached ~3.5M unique users driving a 28% increase in app downloads on the day. Meetville ran an advertising campaign using Snap Ads to coincide with Valentine's Day, and 90% of the new UK iOS users who installed the Meetville app in February did so having come through the Snapchat app.
by Ellen Daniel
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How A Matchmaking AI Conquered And Was Exiled From Tinder
MOTHERBOARD - Nov 7 - Bernie was the latest technological development in boosting human connection, until the AI-enhanced app was kicked off Tinder. It all started in a bar in 2014. Weary of watching his friends spend their nights swiping left or right on dating apps like Tinder, Justin Long of Vancouver decided to automate the process. He developed Tinderbox that used simple facial recognition software to find a match and craft an introductory message. By 2016, he launched Bernie AI to the public, an improved version of Tinderbox named after a friend who died in 2009. Bernie abruptly shut down in June. Tinder simply decided they didn't want Bernie around anymore. The app used artificial intelligence, deep learning technology, and more advanced facial recognition than its Tinderbox predecessor. It eventually learned to identify other objects in the photo aside from the person's face and could develop introductions based on those objects. While Bernie may have shut down, other apps have stepped into the void. Hily takes a slightly different approach in that it disregards visual attractiveness as the basis of its search and instead looks for similar interests, word choice, and mutual likes. It had ~35k users in a closed beta earlier this month.
by James Jackson
See full article at Motherboard
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