Mark Brooks is an analyst/consultant to over 100+ dating services since 2005 and available to comment on the business of internet dating.
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The following is a list of 292 times that I've been quoted in major media, since 2004, on the subject of Internet dating.
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2024
- The Guardian - Teaching Dating Skills in India
- El Periodico - 'Bumble Fumble': Online Dating Apps Struggle as People Swear off Swiping
- Wall Street Journal - Dating Apps' Hidden Money-Making Strategies, Explained
- The Times - Dating Apps Aim to Ensure Users and Investors Don't Swipe Left
2023
- Vox - Online daters love to hate on Hinge. 10 years in, it's more popular than ever.
- Financial Times - Tinder and the old-fashioned art of matchmaking
- Marketplace - Wait, how much per swipe? Dating apps flirt with premium subscriptions
- Wall Street Journal - Dating Apps Put a Hefty Price Tag on Finding Love
2022
- MEDIA POST - In Changed Dating Game, Match Hopes to Re-Spark Tinder With a New CMO
- MEDIA POST - After 'Tinder Swindler' Shockwaves, Tinder Adds In-App Background Checks
2021
- AARP - 50 Free Apps for Apple and Android Phones
- Texas Monthly - How COVID-19 Transformed Match Group’s Online Dating Empire
- Damona Hoffman Podcast - Dates & Mates With Damona Hoffman & Mark Brooks (RealMe)
- Better Love Movement - How to Prioritize Your Safety With RealMe When Dating Online
- The Dating Game podcast - Dating Safety
- Wall Street Journal - Match's Winning Formula for Online Dating in Japan Gives Women Control, Makes Men Pay
- Deal Architect - Burning Platform: Digital Nomads with Mark Brooks
- Forbes - Billionaire Ruben Vardanyan Invests in AI-Based Dating Service iris Dating
- Quartz - The complete guide to the online dating industry
2020
- Times Square Investment Journal - Match Group Super Likes New Brands Hinge and BLK To Steal Swipes From Up-and-Coming Rival Bumble
- Covering Companies - Dating App Hinge Breaks Out of Tinder's Shadow
- TinderTales - So You Want to Date During a Pandemic
- Unqualified - Podcast, Interview With Mark Brooks
- Wall Street Journal - Can't Actually Meet Up? Dating Apps Pivot to Video
- Quartz - Will virtual dating outlast the pandemic?
- L'Express - Confinement : les applis de rencontres se refont une santé grâce à la vidéo
- Global Dating Insights - Covering the Industry's Biggest Trends With Expert Mark Brooks on The GDI Podcast!
2019
- Marketwatch - Good news for Sharon Stone — January is the hottest time of year for online dating
- Forbes Russia - Digital nomad: how a philosopher from Moscow made a fortune of $ 750 million on dating
- USA Today - Are you a Tinder or a Bumble type of person? The clichés of 'big dating'
- Marketwatch - Are you considering a relationship with a co-worker? Read this before you make your move
- The Zoe Report - Facebook Dating Is Live — Here's What Dating Coaches Think About It
- Wall Street Journal - U.S. Orders Chinese Firm to Sell Dating App Grindr Over Blackmail Risk
- L'Express - Love on the bits: l'IA au service de l'amour
- HBS - Navigating Industry Disruption
- L'Express - Love on the bits: l'IA au service de l'amour
- BBC Radio Asian Network - Ankur Desai sits in for Mobeen: New Year, New Bae
2018
- Pheramor Blog - 4 Experts Predict Online Dating in 2024
- The Philadelphia Inquirer - This Philly dating service charged an 85-year-old widow $4,750 and gave her one option
- DatingNews.com - Online Dating Authority Mark Brooks Interviews Hundreds of Executives to Help Improve the Industry
- Visual Politik - The STORY behind TINDER
- The Wise Marketer - Four Loyalty Lessons from Behavioral Science
- Ogilvy - Nuggets of Knowledge from Nudgestock 2018
- Ogilvy - #Nudgestock2018: The psychology behind online dating
- The Street - Facebook's New Dating Service: A Match Made in Heaven, or Hell?
- Wall Street Journal - Facebook to Launch Opt-In Dating Feature
- Forbes Russia - Casual dating: how the creator of "Mamba" was included in the Forbes list (the original article in Russian)
- Marketwatch - Even during a snow storm, this is the hottest time of year for online dating
- USA Today - He showed up at my house after I 'met' him on a dating app. I was freaked out
2017
- Love TV - In India Your Parents Run Your Dating Profiles to Find You Dates
- Top10Best Dating Sites - Q & A with Dating Industry Expert, Mark Brooks
- BBC - Can a chatbot help you find love?
- Financial Times - Has Brexit affected the dating scene?
- Economist - Political dating sites are hot
2016
- New York Times - For Online Dating Sites, a Bumpy Road to Love
- Crain's New York - How to date a New Yorker
- The Guardian - Profits down for Match.com as Britons turn to free dating apps
- Chicago Tribune - The League brings invite-only dating app to Chicago
- KCBS - Radio interview with Mark Brooks
- Wall Street Journal - Dating Apps Court Older, Wealthier Users
- Mashable - Hinge abandons Tinder model in effort to be next Match.com
- MarketWatch - The Secret Sauce Behind Online Dating
- Dating Advice - Keeping It Short and Sweet: Online Personals Watch Sums Up Breaking News in Online Dating
- Marketing News - Swipe Right: How Marketers Changed Online Dating
- LA Magazine - Tinder Has an In-House Sociologist and Her Job Is to Figure Out What You Want
- Reviews.com - The Best Online Dating Sites
- Uptown1Radio - New Dating Site Offers a Hung of "Berning" Love
- IBTimes - How eHarmony Stays Relevant In The Age of Tinder And Match Group
- CNN Money - College students are Tindering for 'friends'
- Marketwatch - This is the busiest time of year for online dating
2015
- Financial Post - Ashley Madison’s female users are pretty much non-existent, evidence shows
- Mergermarket - Match Must Use Size to Overcome Challenges Facing Public Dating Services - Sources
- Reuters - Ashley Madison founder emails leaked in new data dump
- Institutional Investor - IAC Looks for Love in PlentyOfFish
- Marketwatch - Sorry, Tinder, but most online daters are liars
- Institutional Investor - Why Online Dating Has a Hard Time Hooking Up with Venture Capital
- The Hollywood Reporter - A Drunk Screenwriter, Actor Wannabes and a Petty Thief: Hollywood's True Tales of Online Dating Nightmares
- Financial Post - Ashley Madison hack a cautionary tale in the digital hookup world: 'They've failed at a key value'
- Marketwatch /WSJ - Ashley Madison may have to kiss its IPO goodbye
- Standard.co.uk - Adultery website Ashley Madison 'may have to scrap £130m London flotation' after hackers access database
- Marketwatch /WSJ - Why America’s dating sites are hooking up with each other
- Bloomberg - How One Company Owns Your Entire Dating Life
- Wall Street Journal - IAC/InterActive Plans an IPO for Its Matchmaking Business
- Wall Street Journal - The Dating Business: Love on the Rocks
- TheStreet - True Love May Take IAC Stock Past $80 With Tinder Plus App
- MarketWatch /WSJ - Would you buy shares in an adultery website?
- NY Times - Start-Up Blends Old-Fashioned Matchmaking and Algorithms
- Washington Post - Online dating precautions: Meet two police officers who followed them
- La Tercera - 20 años de citas en un clic
- Wall Street Journal - Tinder Takes Swipe at Generating Revenue
- Bloomberg - Tinder Plus Is Coming But You'll Have to Pay For it
- Wall Street Journal - 'The League' Dating App's Velvet Rope – and How to Get Past It
- UT San Diego - Online dating odds getting better
2014
- BCBusiness - Plenty of Fish eggs in one basket: dating site bets it all on mobile
- The Guardian - The $8000 course on "how to commit" and other expenses of online dating
- MarketWatch / WSJ - 5 extreme ways to succeed on dating sites
- Washington Post - Finding love on the run: The fast rise of mobile dating apps
- SF Gate - Lucky in love: How media giant IAC won online daters' hearts
- Marketplace - In online dating, one company is the big matchmaker
- Austin Business Journal - Online dating tools like Thread need to attract users quickly, expert says
- NEON - The Future Of Internet Dating
- Business Insider - How The Endless Quest For Love Is Sparking Massive Growth In Dating Apps
- USA Today - Online dating services get into matchmaking big leagues
- Wired - Tinder May Not Be Worth $5B, But It’s Way More Valuable Than You Think
- CNBC - How to make money off the online dating boom
- Chicago Tribune - Your new mobile wingman
- Yahoo News - Is your 'lover' for real? Picking the wrong online date could cost you your home
2013
- MarketWatch / WSJ - This is the busiest time of year for dating sites
- MarketWatch / WSJ - Walter Mitty’s eHarmony counselor costs $5,000
- ITV - Looking For Love - ITV Documentary
- The Star - Twine: A digital dating app that more than meets the eye
- Mercury News - New digital dating app Twine looks to dig deeper
- Omaha.com - Profile Wingman: Profile Editing & Coaching
- The Deal - Harmonic convergence at home
- The Deal - FriendFinder's Forbearance Continues
- The Private Man - International Online Dating – Some Words From An Industry Insider
- Consumer's Digest - Proceed with Caution: The Truth About Online Dating
- The Deal - FriendFinder Needs A Loving Embrace
- Fortune Magazine - The mail-order bride boom
- Chicago Tribune - Love in the time of GPS
- Minyanville - Why Match.com Is Taking Part of Its Business Off-Line With 'The Stir'
- Irish Times - Looking for the love of your life? There's an app for that
- Fortune Magazine - Outsourcing the algorithm of love to online dating
- USA Today - Mobile apps tap the changing face of online dating
- Market Watch - 10 things dating sites won't tell you
- Lexington Patch - Notes from Youville: Seniors and Romance
- NPR Radio - On Point - Monogamy And Online Dating
- The Atlantic - A Million First Dates
2012
- Huffington Post - Online Dating Traffic Surges Between Boxing Day And New Year’s Eve
- Los Angeles Times - EHarmony founder has his heart set on reviving the dating site
- USA Today - Dating sites - for all ages - focus on keeping it real
- Venture Beat - Online daters, be warned! 1 in 10 profiles are scams, report reveals
- Washington Post - Finding love on the run: The fast rise of mobile dating apps
- Boston Globe - Can GPS find you a mate?
- Huffington Post - Dating in a Mobile World
- Washington Post - Hinge uses Facebook — and your friends — to find love connections
- BetaBeat - Is Your Dating Site Selling Your Profile? To Keep Membership High, Niche Sites Get Sly
- Unlimited Magazine - Operation Match Version 2012
- IT Business - Plentyoffish fires darts at eHarmony, Match.com on Valentine’s Day
- USA Today - Sites that cater to 'discreet' encounters thriving
- Business Insider - Watch Out: Dating Website Fraud Is Running Rampant
- Miami Herald - Dating Sites Become Mainstream And Focus On More Niche Markets
- NPR Marketplace - Social networks spawn online dating sites
2011
- BBC Radio 4 - The Business of Online Dating
- Morning Show Toronto - Ian Bell, CEO Of Tingle, An iPhone Dating App
- Telegraph.co.uk - Have You Found Your Niche Yet?
- Sunday Times - Flirting site betrays the love cheats
- Sunday Times - Police target lonely hearts fraudsters
- Financial Times - The love letter ghostwriter
- Richmond Times - Many using dating services to find true date online
- The Globe and Mail - The Vancouverite behind Plenty of Fish
- Paid Content - Facebook vs. Shagbook: Social Network in Trademark Dispute with Adult Dating Site
- The Next Web - The most niche (and bizarre) sites for finding love on the Internet
- OC Register - What do online dating sites mean for you?
- McClatchy Tribune - Curious US dating forums boom on the internet
- Huffington Post - The Business of Love
- Examiner - It was all about mobile at the Internet Dating Conference
- The New Yorker - Looking For Someone
- LA Times - With smartphone dating apps, it's all about location
- Wall Street Journal - Online, Is Dreamdate a Scam?
- Atlanta Post - Digital Romance: The Business Of Online Dating
- Legal Talk Network - Love And The Law: Online Dating Lawsuits
- BBC Scotland - Match.com Runs Sex Offender Checks
- Ad Age - Get Hooked up With the Big Business of Online Dating
- Washington Times - Match.com sued by subscribers who say they were snookered
- Tech Crunch - Facebook Has Already Trademarked 'Face' In Europe – Is 'Book' Next?
- Buffalo News - Technology And Innovation Transform Online Dating
- Lisa Gualtieri's blog - Looking for Health in All the Wrong Places: What Can Health Website Design Learn from Online Dating?
2010
- Mixergy - How An Influencer Is Building Personals Sites From An Island In The Mediterranean
- Newsweek - How Match.com Changed Dating
- IEEE Spectrum - The Engineer of Love
- ABC News - Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky Are Bad Match, Says Dating Site
- Dow Jones - The $100M Revenue Club: EHarmony Captures Hearts Of VCs
- BBC - The cyber Cyrano
- LA Times - Hooking up with the latest online dating trends
- Financial Times - Love and money: online dating for the wealthy
- Washington Post - Online dating assistants help the lonely and busy
- CNN Money - Online dating without the creepy strangers
- Wall Street Journal - A Dating Site for Apple Fans Only
- Washington Post - Phone-sex Chat Lines Are Part Of Web Of Cybersocializing
- LA Business Journal - Date Site Operator To Play The Field
- NY Times (Front page) - For Web’s New Wave, Sharing Details Is the Point
- Times Online - The science of online dating
- Lifescript - 10 Online Dating Tips
- TheDeal.com - Lavalife Is Being Shoped
- Miami New Times - Silicon Beach: Can Twitter Replace Online Dating Sites?
- Miami Herald - In World Of Online Flirting, Virtual Gifts Are Big Business
- LA Times - Matchmakers' personal touch thrives despite EHarmony, Match.com
- LA Times - Make it personal, keep it real
- LA Times - Finding the right online dating service
- The Hamilton Spectator - Finding love on all the right websites
- The Daily Star - Internet Brings Valentine's Day Home
- Fox Business - How No. 1 Dating Site Match.com Came to Be
- Mercury News - Local matchmaker warns of Internet dating scams
- Smart Money - The Dating-Site Game: What You Need to Know
- Examiner - Highlights From The Internet Dating Conference
- Miami New Times - Silicon Beach: eLove Accepts Fat Rejects From BeautifulPeople.com
2009
- Fast Company - Women Flock to Social Networks: Will They Dump Dating Sites to "Make Friends" Safely?
- SF Business Journal - 'Social' dating site Zoosk hooks up with $30M
- NY Post - Daters without borders
- The Economist - Well met my clublight
- Merger Market - FriendFinder Networks could look to sell non-core businesses before expected end-of-year IPO, sources say
- Florida Today - Indialantic pair open online dating service
- McClatchy Newspapers - As seniors live longer they find 'love expectancy' also grows
- Boston Globe - Dating from the dorm room
- Wall Street Journal - Spark Networks Loses Online Daters' Love
- Miami Herald - Seeking A PC Affair?
- Anything For Love - The Key to Finding Romance?
- Los Angeles Times - EHarmony launches gay matchmaking service
- Washington Post - OnDating: Dating by Mobile Phone
- Boston Globe - The myth of Ashton
- National Public Radio - Bad Economy Does Dating Good
- Anything For Love - High-Speed Speed Dating
- Online Dating Magazine - Interview with Mark Brooks (Online Personals Watch)
- San Diego Tribune - Be original – and honest – in your online dating profile
- Pioneer Press - Amid recession, it's a Valentine's Day massacre for businesses catering to Feb. 14 needs
- Computer World - So you wanna run an online dating site?
- New Scientist - Valentine's Day Special: The dating game
- Computer World - Online dating: Your profile's long, scary shelf life
- Financial Times - Blind date with recession
- Computer World - Online dating: The technology behind the attraction
- New York Times - The Recession. Isn’t It Romantic?
- Smart Money - 10 things dating sites won't say
- Associated Press - Multitaskers Say One Online Dating Site Won't Do
- The Morning Show With Mike And Juliet - "M&J Investigates" Online Dating
- Globe & Mail - www.cheapdate.com
- The National - Love Is Now A Niche Affair
- Inc Magazine - And the Money Comes Rolling In
- Tech Crunch - Free Dating Sites Give Paid Sites A Run For Their Money
- Telegraph.co.uk - Recession boost for online dating sites
- Star Ledger - Web Video Captures The Truth
2008
- The Real Cougar Woman Radio Show - Paul Falzone And Mark Brooks Interview With Bonnie
- The Independent - Lonely log on to find love in a cold climate
- Classified Intelligence Report - Online Personals: Changing Norms, Changing Business Models
- Seattle PI - Single Shot: How To Be A Cheap Date
- PC World - Dating Sites Hang on Despite Increasing Competition
- Tech Crunch - Psismic Matches People Over Things They Like
- The Christian Science Monitor - Many new ‘friends’ to be made online, but what about dollars?
- Consumer Affairs - Love's Labor Looted: Internet Dating Scams Can Get Expensive
- The Gazette - Montreal startup wants to be the Facebook of cultures
- McClatchy Newspapers - As seniors live longer they find 'love expectancy' also grows
- CMS WIRE8 - Social Networking Conference: Keynotes & Opening Remarks
- Internet News - Social Networking Meets the Mainstream
- Sun Times - Niche Sites Making A Match Easier
- Internet News - Online Dating's New Face
- Singles Film Documentary - Single, a documentary film
- Star Telegram - Can You Date Me Now?
- Financial Times - Niche dating site bridges age gap
- New York Times - Let’s Say You Want to Date a Hog Farmer
- Tech Crunch - Niche Dating Sites Grow Steadily As Mainstream Ones Flail
- Red Eye Chicago Tribune - Science of love
- 24 - Don't Call It A Dating Service
- SF Chronicle - Gay matchmaking sites find a growing market
- Network World - The hottest trends in online dating
- Christianity - Surf and Ye Shall Find: Christian Dating
- Chicago Tribune - How Do I Catch A Valentine?
- The New York Times - Parent of Dating Sites Looks for a Match
- Seattle Times - January Boom Time For Internet Dating
2007
- Tango Magazine - Love in 2012: What The Future Holds
- New York Times - Is True.com Being Untrue to Advertising Partners?
- New York Times - Online Dating Putting You Off? Try a Matchmaker
- Houston Chronicle - Virtual Intimacy Leads To Real Carelessness
- Houston Chronicle - Throwing Caution To The Wind
- China Daily - The Cruel Business of Love
- SF Chronicle - Disharmony, The New Tolerance
- SF Chronicle - Now he's a friend to socializers / Friendster founder's latest online venture offers invitations and event planning, along with social networking features
- Mercury News - Hook me up: Engage.com connects daters with matchmakers
- NY Times - In the Computer Dating Game, Room for a Coach
- Fox News - PlentyofFish on Fox News
- Miami Herald - Digital Matchmakers Get Down to Business
2006
- Nancy Grace - Missing internet dater
- Nancy Grace - Millionaire Web Site Sex Scandal
- Chicago Tribune iii - Online dating safety tips
- Chicago Tribune ii - Online Dating Industry Deleting Scammers
- Chicago Tribune i - Web of lies
- Bradenton Herald - Online dating profile help
- New Jersey Ledger - True or Dare
- Fox News NY - videMobile Dating Gaining Popularity
- The Guardian - $2m for lonely heart who lost $125,000 to dating agency
- Intl Herald Tribune - Courting an 'ideal' Web business
- LA Times - MySpace online scene
- Wireless Week - Hooking Up in the Information Age - Mobile dating
- Columbia News Service - Handsome but clueless? Online profile writers can help
- Reuters & CNN - Perils of Online Dating Prompt Safety Efforts
- Fox NY, DC, LA, FL - Mark Brooks interviews
- Denver Post - Must love dogs, Buddha, caves
- Courier Post - Techies, not Trekkies, Present the Future of Dating
- Newsweek - The Five-Year Itch
- Associated Press - Google Sparks Privacy Fight
2005
- NBC Boston - Date and Switch?
- Miami Herald - Is It Love or a Lie?
- Daily News Journal - Dating in cyberspace
- The Street - Web Dating Game Heats Up
- Union Leader - Safety? A Nice Photo? Help's Out There, For a Fee
- Union Leader - Online, but Not Looking for Love
- Internet Week - Scammers Dupe Online Daters for Millions of Dollars
- ABC News - Singles Hire Coaches to Improve Their Dating Game
- Wired - Dating Sites Rekindle the Flame
- San Francisco Chronicle - Hey, baby, want a date? / New mobile dating services allow people to browse profiles via cell phone and message potential matches -- even on the spot
- CBS Channel 5 News - Internet Dating Goes Mobile
- Miami Herald - Online Dating is Split Over the Bill
- Arizona Tribune - Niche dating sites allow special-interest singles to find each other
- USA Today - Love Growing Strong On Web
- Miami Herald - Love Blossoms on the Internet