Yesterday I was giving thanks to my friend Sally for turning me onto the anti-comedic stylings of Dan "The Poet Man" Songer. Working for an audience of none in what appears to be his backyard (he calls it Tranquility Hall), Dan's act will bring joy to your heart and/or make your head and ears hurt. In each installment of his comedy act you learn more about his life. Like that he uses online...
DIGITAL MEDIA - Nov 24 - match.com becomes the exclusive dating partner for eBay, and mirrors similar agreement with ninemsn and News.com.au. Much like the ninemsn deal, this is not so much an integration as a traffic building exercise for Match.com. The match.com portal is effectively bolted on underneath eBay's sites menu and header with revenue generated for eBay via referrals to the dating service....
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The online dating site OKCupid has a blog where they post analyses of the tons of data they collect, and it's really fascinating. For instance the attractiveness of woman on OKCupid, as judged by the men on OKCupid, is a symmetrical bell curve. In other words, half the women are better-than-medium looking and half are worse-than-medium looking. But OKCupid's women rate 80% of OKCupid's guys as worse-than-medium...
Online advertising has always fascinated me. Back in 1994 I was part of the group that posted the (arguably) first paid banner ads on a major network. The AT&T banners, part of the “You Will” campaign, had a 78% clickthrough rate on WIRED Magazine’s Hotwired network. Lately I’ve been talking to a lot of people about [...] Related posts: TRUE.com Increases Advertising Spend...
I had a super first trip to Toronto last weekend where I spoke at an FICP conference about social media and social tools. Thanks to Kris Covino at Date.com for showing me around town and taking me out for a great lunch. I got to meet up with a few other people but unfortunately wasn’t [...] Related posts: Online Dating Industry Links 10-28-09 Airline’s open seating breeds love connections...
Yesterday I drove south of Boston to visit eLove formerly known as Together/The Right One. Terry, Paul and I talked about the matchmaking business and how it’s slowly coming to terms with the fact that the offline folks need to start paying attention to online, and vice versa. In this regard, eLove really gets it [...] Related posts: The Right One launches eLove Together, The Right One and eLove...
For Sale: online dating site. Launched in 2006, the world’s first dog lovers dating site was born with a mission to bring single people together from all over the world who shared a passion for dogs. Niche: Dog lovers. Potential Market size: 43 million single dog lovers in the US alone. Membership: Thousands of active members. Revenue model: Subscription [...] Related posts: Long Distance Lovers...
Match.com LLP has managed to get an East Coast class-action suit moved to the local area, although the online dating service still must defend itself against allegations in the litigation that it “lumps together profiles of current subscribers and canceled member and displays them as if they are they same,” court documents say.
Instead of posting link-dumps to the blog every few days, notable nuggets of news will be published to @datinginsider. Fear not the Twitter-averse, those tweets will show up in the sidebar of Online Dating Insider as well. You can scroll back through the most recent 15 posts and easily click through to the full tweets [...] Related posts: New Twitter Dating Industry List An Introduction to Twitter...
For years it seemed like Si Newhouse and Condé Nast were hiding out and hoping that the whole internet thing would just run its course and life would return to "normal." Sure they formed CondéNet and launched Style.com but they were certainly not pre-curve on anything digital. But over the past few months, they've definitely been trying to make up for lost time. (We can only...
(Online Dating Industry Journal) Online Dating Magazine has added several more online dating domain names to its list of domain names for sale. The newest editions to the list include: OnlineDatingAU.com OnlineDatingLosAngeles.com OnlineDatingJapan.com OnlineDatingBrisbane.com OnlineDatingMelbourne.com OnlineDatingQueensland.com OnlineDatingPrices.com OnlineDatingMen.com You can...
Is DNA the next big thing for online dating sites? Well, apparently dating sites think so. Sites such as ScientificMatch and sense2love want to take into account chemical attraction and bring it back into the fold. Those sites seem to be banking on the theory that people are attracted to partners who have different immune systems than their own. So if you suddenly decide that it’s time to try...
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The entertainment market as a whole continues to be reshaped in light of technological advancements and new industry partnerships. Developments in online video, IPTV and home media centres are intensifying as the underlying technologies continue to converge. Much of the world is also moving towards all-digital broadcasting and North America and Europe are considered to be the most developed TV markets