
- We Are Extending The Spotlight On Startups Application Deadline Until Friday 7th October – Also find full details about the evening event, which runs after our London dating conference on the 27th October.
- LOVOO Pay €1.2m To End Legal Proceedings Following Police Raid – The news comes four months after the dating brand’s offices were stormed by armed police in connection with allegations of customer deception.
- Tinder To Offer One Off Payments With New Profile Boost Feature – Tinder Boost will make your profile one of the “top profiles in your area” for 30 minutes.
- Hinge Will Launch New Paid Dating App In Two Weeks – This comes after the app broke its long silence last week, and launching a site dedicated to the depressing state of today’s “swiping culture”.
- Free Dating Platform Sees 62% Paid Subscriber Growth With New Low Priced Freemium Service – The premium service starts at £5 a month and has more than doubled Free Dating Platform’s conversion rate.
- Match Group User Retention Experts Talk Strategies To Reduce Churn – Two of the Match Group’s user retention experts recently sat down with App Annie to give some insights.
- FriendSwipe Lets You See The Tinder Profiles Of Your Facebook Friends – The tool lets you form social groups with your friends that use the app, then connect with nearby and like-minded groups.
- ioSquare, French Automated Content Startup Used By Match Group, Merges With Besedo – The agreement, which aims to create a joint global market leader, is a cash-and-share deal that sees ioSquare take a stake in Besedo.
- 40% Of Brits ‘Actively Ignore’ Branded Content Online – New research from Kantar TNS polled 70,000 consumers from around the world about their thoughts on branded content.
- Young Mobile Daters Might Not Be Looking For Hookups After All – Research conducted by the University of Sydney says singles aren’t using online dating just for hookups, counter to popular assumptions.
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