We report the business of dating.
Dating Industry Insights covers the companies behind dating apps, matchmaking and social discovery: their deals, results, products and the rules they operate under. Every story is built from the original documents or named, credible reporting, and every source is listed. It is free to read.
How a story gets made
DII's newsroom uses AI to find, research and draft stories, and a named editor is responsible for what it publishes. This is the path every news story takes.
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Spotted
The newsroom watches company press rooms, SEC filings, regulators, courts, wires and the trade press, and sweeps the web every two hours for anything new about the dating business.
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Read at source
Before anything is written, the original is read: the filing, the ruling, the company's own announcement. Where none can be read, a major news organisation's own reporting can stand in, named in the story. A lead with neither is dropped.
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Checked
A separate check compares every figure, name and date in the draft with those documents. It corrects what it can and holds back what it cannot confirm.
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Published, or held for the editor
A story that passes is published with its sources listed underneath. Anything the check is unsure of, and any story that mentions a business connected to DII's owners, waits for the editor.
The full rules are in our editorial standards. Mistakes are corrected openly under our corrections policy.
What we cover
- Daily News
Launches, hires, funding and the day's dating industry news.
- Financial
Deals, earnings, valuations and investor news from the dating business. Deals tracker
- Regulation
Fines, rulings, new laws and safety rules that affect dating apps. Regulation watch
- Technology & AI
Product launches, AI features and the technology behind dating apps.
- Data
Market numbers, surveys, app rankings and research on the dating industry.
- Community
Events, people moves and the dating industry's community.
- Reports
Longer research on the questions the industry argues about, each with its sources and a record of what changed.
- Directory
Profiles of the companies, apps and people in the industry, linked to our coverage of each.
Who reads DII
- People running dating, matchmaking and social discovery businesses
- Product, growth and trust and safety teams
- Investors following Match Group, Bumble and Grindr
- Regulators, lawyers and compliance advisers
- Journalists who need the industry's numbers and documents
DII is a trade publication. It does not give dating advice or review apps for daters.
The editor
Bill Alena
Editor and founder
Bill Alena founded Dating Industry Insights and High Intent Media Inc, its publisher. He is responsible for DII's editorial standards and for everything it publishes.
The reporters
Who owns DII
DII is published by High Intent Media Inc, a private company. It is paid for by advertising, sponsorship, paid directory listings and events. Sponsored content is always labelled, and no advertiser or partner sees a story before it is published.
DII's owners are connected to businesses in the industry we cover: Venntro, Fortitude, DatingAPI, WhichDating, Smooch and WhiteLabelDating. Any story that mentions one of them says so.
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