10 Stories Not To Miss On GDI This Week
- Affinitas Announce Merger Deal With Spark Networks – Called Spark Networks SE, the new merged business will be organised as a European company and headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
- Tinder Hits 1.9m Paid Subscribers In Q1, As Match Group Talks ‘Big Investment’ In AI – International growth has driven another good quarter for Match Group, CEO Greg Blatt calling the company’s Q1 results a “solid start” for the dating leader.
- Gleeden Hits 3.5m Subscribers & Launches In India – The news comes as the French dating brand announces it has crossed the 3.5m global subscriber count.
- Programmer Scrapes Dataset Of 40,000 Tinder Profile Pics & Posts Online For Researchers To Use – A programmer who scraped 40,000 photos from dating app Tinder to help aid artificial intelligence research has been reprimanded by the Hollywood company for breaking its terms and conditions.
- 3 Types Of Facebook Ad Campaigns You Have To Try – Guest article by Matt Tomkin, Digital Marketing Consultant at Relative Marketing.
- Smartphone Owners Use 9 Apps Every Day & 30 Every Month – The mobile analytics company analysed mobile app usage in a host of countries such as the US, UK, Japan, China, South Korea and Germany.
- New Laurie Segall CNN Documentary Explores Human Cost Of Ashley Madison Hack – The episode is part of Segall’s new series, Mostly Human with Laurie Segall, which explores “sex, love, death – humanity – through the lens of tech”.
- Slack Adds Time Limits For Guest Accounts – Teams that use Slack can now manage guest accounts better, thanks to two new releases by the communication platform.
- This Report Reveals The Words You Should Be Using In Your Push Notifications – Leanplum’s report, called Push Notification Content, offers a breakdown of the words and themes that good push notifications should and should not include.
- UK University Wins Award For Online Dating-Inspired App For Finding A University Course – In 2015, the University of Salford created Match Made in Salford, an online tool inspired by online dating sites designed to help prospective students find their “perfect match” at the university.
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