Match.com has launched a new dating site for 50-plus singles. Featuring over a million profiles at launch, OurTime.com is actually a People Media site, as you can tell from the templates used. I’m not sure if the million profiles are from SeniorPeopleMeet and SeniorBlackPeoplemeet, but thats what it sounds like. Does this mean that profiles were [...]
Attention Internet World attendees in London next week, WhiteLabelDating, the international leader in customer focused, flexible & scalable online dating systems, will be hosting a seminar with Dennis Publishing at Internet World. The seminar, ‘Making Money through Online Dating’ will be presented in the Advertising, Affiliate & Search theatre on Wednesday 11th May at 10.45am. [...]
Last night I had a dream that I was a rich business man who racked in two months’ worth of my current salary every day. When I woke up, I felt pretty pumped about life and my career, because everything that took place in my dream is actually pretty plausible one day down the road [...]
I don’t often pick on specific dating sites that make it difficult to deal with billing issues but this reader’s story is one that I am hearing all to often these days, and not just about be2.com. Lightly edited for length and clarity: You are probably aware that be2.com are under scrutiny. I signed up with be2 [...]
Vindicia launches new version of CashBox billing solution. A few weeks ago I met up with vindicia CEO Gene Hoffman, who told me they now have a number of big dating sites as clients. Gene is awesome, his team is top-notch and they really understand customer retention and acquisition through integrated marketing best practices like no [...]
PayPal has deemed WhatsYourPrice morally unsuitable and turned off their account. Brandon Wade, Founder and CEO of WhatsYourPrice: Paypal has made a moral decision that accepting money for going on a first date should be banned, while it has for years provided payment for dating websites, such as Ashley Madison, that promote infidelity. Obviously, PayPal [...]
In celebration of the single mother, Match.com has released a list of the ‘Top 10 Cities for Dating Single Moms‘ on its official blog Up To Date. Results from a recent study by Match.com showed that single parents in the US are dating more (21%) compared to singles without children (16%). An independent group of [...]
A company called Amivox has come up with a better way to break up with people: We think that people who break up via SMS are coward and weak. After a relationship, the least you can do is to communicate clearly and with a loud voice the reason why you are breaking up. Don’t hide [...]
A while back I took a look at SingleSquare, a free dating app that uses FourSquare technology to allow users to post “Sightings” of singles or post themselves as being single to particular places where they are located and can interact in real time. Over the last few months SingleSquare has been busy redesigning the [...]
The market is saturated with mobile apps for finding nearby friends, dates and deals, but this hasn’t kept the ex-CEO of Match.com, Jim Safka, from starting a new location-based social/dating site called AtZip. I have 10 or so similar apps on my phone and I pretty much don’t use any of them except Foursquare and [...]