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Online Personals Watch (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
OPW - Nov 10 - Hitwise tracks total site visits, and the organization’s rankings are in from October. PlentyofFish remained #1 with Americans, followed in order by Match, Singlesnet, Yahoo Personals, DateHookup, eHarmony, Adam4Adam, TRUE, SeniorPeopleMeet and BlackPeopleMeet. Yet while the waters were mostly calm in the U.S. market, Shaadi was busy making waves in other countries. The Indian...
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Corante (Free subscription) | yesterday
Getting online daters to stray out of their comfort zones and search for new people has always been a problem for dating sites. Usually, search is a set it and forget it situation, where users set their initial search criteria and then leave it like that forever. You see the same people, over and over [...] Related posts: Cancelling eHarmony Subscription OKcupid in INC Magazine Are Friendfinder emails...
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The Spiceymike Blog (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Oh lovely November, how very nice to see you here. It's not going to make much difference in terms of the type of month it'll be, but it's simply nice to see the end of the year drawing near. This time of year can be so tiring, I mean the past 2 weeks was a good example of this. That wasn't really so much of a problem though, my main concern is catching up and rearranging my new surroundings at my...
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Girls In Tech (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Online dating is a hot industry, one that’s known to generate recurring subscription revenue allowing companies like eHarmony and Match.com to make roughly a million dollars a day. Together, eHarmony and Match.com claim responsibility for over 120,000 marriages since 1995. Call me a cynic (or pragmatist), but how about publishing data on the number of [...]
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Online Personals Watch (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
OPW - Oct 16 - comScore, which measures total unique visitors, has released their iDate rankings for September. Not only did Singlesnet hold strong at #1 (3,713), but the site actually saw an increase of nearly 450 unique visitors from August. Meanwhile, Yahoo Personals experienced a major downturn, falling from #2 to #4. The site hauled in only 2,705 unique visitors in September versus 3,132 in August....
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ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
One of the sessions at today's RWW Real-Time Web Summit examined how we can use the real-time Web to connect people. This session, led by Aardvark's Damon Horowitz, delved into some of the questions that remain to be answered about this aspect of the move towards the real-time Web. One of the most interesting aspects of this discussion focused on how companies can connect the right people to each...
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eprnetwork | 10/15/2009
Responding to market research and industry needs, Lovetropolis.com, a Bowie, Maryland-based online dating service owned by The Lombard Company, Inc., introduced a new Christian Dating service today as part of their push to attain a larger market share of the lucrative online dating niche market. They are hoping to match the success of their general dating service which was launched in February, 2009,
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Adaptation Dating Blog (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
OPW - Oct 12 - The Hitwise rankings are in for September. PlentyofFish , Match.com , Singlesnet , Yahoo! Personals and DateHookup.com remained in their respective slots in the top five. eHarmony moved into the #6 position, bumping gay dating site Adam4Adam down a notch. TRUE stayed true at #8. SeniorPeopleMeet jumped up two spots to #9, just ahead of fellow People Media site, BlackPeopleMeet . In...
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Online Personals Watch (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
This is the news for the week of October 4th through October 9th, 2009. We hope you enjoy the new weekly news format. Please follow this link to enjoy the high-resolution version. Here is the news we covered for this week: Userplane’s new low-cost IM package Toksta renamed to Stickapps, and is for sale BBW Personals Plus becomes MoretoLove.com Flirtomatic to announce major deal with a U.S. carrier...
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Computer World (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
EHarmony uses a variety of data-crunching applications to keep members of its online matchmaking service happy.
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Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Common sense says there will be a lot more M&A deals in the coming few quarters in the media and Internet sector. The Comcast-NBCU deal talks are on the biggest end of the spectrum. On the Internet side of things, Collins Stewart analyst Sandeep Aggarwal came out with a research note today outlining some of his picks on possible companies that are ripe for picking. His view: “all of the...
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Corante (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
What a great week of networking. I started the day with a breakfast meeting with a VC I’ve been corresponding with for several years and then last night I ran into Tigerbow, at Webinnovators in Boston along with @URwingman and a friend who used to do PR for eHarmony several years ago. I’m going to [...] Related posts: 6Rounds Brings Shared Live Interactions to Online Dating Focusing on...
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Corante (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
Absolutely fantastic essay about married vs. single life. I am sending this to all my 40-something single friends, because it puts our situation into perspective just about perfectly. Best Friends and Lovers is to eHarmony as Engage was to Match.com. Congrats to advertiser Viximo for scoring a deal with photo-blogging site Fotolog. So thats the deal they [...] Related posts: Online Dating Industry...
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Download Squad (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
Filed under: Web services , Social Software Online dating is a somewhat static market. You have premium players Match.com and eHarmony , who seem to suggest at every commercial break that the person you've been looking for your whole life just signed up a few minutes ago. At the other end of the spectrum, there's Plenty of Fish which, although vastly improved from a few years ago, is still one of...
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Corante (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
The tech behind 236 eHarmony members getting hitched daily. eHarmony is the leader when it comes to dating site technology. That and a $200 million advertising budget will make you a contender. For comparison, here’s The Rant Guy on eHarmony. This is one of the more sane and in-depth critiques I’ve seen. Check out his disclaimer: Please [...] Related posts: Online Dating Links for 2-24-09...
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eprnetwork | 10/15/2009
Responding to market research and industry needs, Lovetropolis.com, a Bowie, Maryland-based online dating service owned by The Lombard Company, Inc., introduced a new Christian Dating service today as part of their push to attain a larger market share of the lucrative online dating niche market. They are hoping to match the success of their general dating service which was launched in February, 2009,
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blogchick | 12/28/2008
Top 5 Dating Sites recommended for Mature and Senior Dating: 1. Senior Friend Finder 2. Prime Singles - Meet Singles over 50 3. Eharmony.com 4. Match.com 5. Yahoo Personals Yahoo! Personals has fired the models and now proudly displays actual s...