DII Financial Intelligence Desk
The DII Financial Intelligence Desk covers earnings, valuations, funding and the financial performance of the global online dating industry.
MaC Venture Capital manages over $600M in assets and warns most loneliness startups lack venture-scale potential At leas…
UK dating industry projected to grow from $398M in 2025 to $749M by 2034, driven by increased spending per user rather t…
Tinder Q2 revenue expected at approximately $446M versus $207M for Hinge, meaning Hinge would need to more than double j…
Breeze ran 500 pilot events in London attracting 3,500 participants at £25 per head Match Group's paying user count drop…
TOKYO Enmusubi produced 265 marriages from 16,000 users in 21 months — a 1.7% marriage conversion rate Only 16,000 of 36…
Seattle matchmakers are charging $7,500 to $50,000 per client and reporting waitlists as tech professionals abandon dati…
Tinder's average subscriber count declined 8% year-on-year in Q3 2024, with particular weakness among users under 25 Hin…
Arya acquired Flamme, a couples app with 200,000+ users, in a deal that closed within 30 days of first LinkedIn contact …
Match Group reported a 5% quarterly decline in paying subscribers to 14.2 million Internal testing showed nearly 90% of …
Tinder is expanding its Events feature to nine cities this month, targeting 26 by September, after launching a pilot in …
Aisle has reached 30 million registered users but only 500,000 monthly active users—a 1.67% conversion rate far below in…
Match Group's Tinder will pay $60.5M to settle a class action lawsuit over age-based pricing discrimination The lawsuit …
Tinder's paid subscriber base has collapsed 21% from 11.1 million in 2022 to 8.77 million in 2025, representing approxim…
Tinder revenue declined 5% year-on-year in Q4 2024 as users report fatigue with endless swiping and declining connection…
Tinder's monthly active users have declined year-over-year, with Match Group CEO Spencer Rascoff stating the company has…
Match Group led an $18M seed round for Overtone, a startup founded by former Hinge CEO Justin McLeod that aims to replac…
Aisle, a 12-year-old Indian dating app, now offers money-back guarantees to paid subscribers who don't receive a 'valid …
Fate has 10,000 app installs and is launching curated speed dating events in London with 20 participants each First two …
SURF launched in 2024 and has secured partnerships with HYROX, World Surf League US Open of Surfing, and Palm Tree Music…
Korea's three largest independent dating apps—Enrise, Cupist, and Triplecomma—all operate profitably with margins betwee…
Matrimony.com reported Q1 billings of ₹13,603 lakhs ($16.3M), representing just 7.8% year-on-year growth The company's M…
Match Group has doubled its 2026 AI budget to $10 million and implemented spending caps tracked via a central dashboard …
Goose, a new gay dating app, reached No. 4 in the US App Store's free lifestyle category within days of its invite-only …
80% of Gen Z believe they will find true love, compared to just 56% of all singles Only 25% of adults under 30 list find…
Grindr shares surged 16% after Morgan Stanley upgraded the stock to overweight, driven by optimism around its AI-powered…
Coffee Meets Bagel has raised $23M in total funding since its Shark Tank appearance, competing against public companies …
Hinge deliberately loses 20% of prospective users during onboarding through demanding profile requirements including wri…
66% of respondents across 12 major Indian cities have used AI chatbots for sexual health education, according to a Gleed…
Bumble's market capitalisation has collapsed to $388M, down 95% from its $7B February 2021 IPO valuation Paying users dr…
Tinder's average revenue per user declined year-on-year in Q3 2024 despite pricing increases, signalling softening engag…
MirrorMe charges up to R488 (£22) monthly for full access to its invite-only dating app in South Africa The app recorded…
46% of Viber dating users who match initiate a chat within one hour, compared to 30-40% of matches on traditional dating…
Match Group is shutting Archer, its gay dating app, on 17 June after just three years in operation Archer managed only 6…
69% of Gen Z and 74% of Millennials believe AI makes dating less authentic, according to Hily's August 2025 survey of 1,…
UK dating platform with 25,000 registered users and 5,000 monthly actives has launched sale process Company reports 30% …
77.6% of BLK users report financial stress around dating, with 86% of US singles reducing or pausing dating activity due…
Over 60% of Bumble matches never exchange a single message, according to the company's Q2 2023 earnings data Hinge's 202…
Tinder is hosting in-person events across Los Angeles, including pickleball matches, art classes, and silent discos, as …
ateam launched in New York with an 11-minute daily usage cap and partnerships with 15 fitness studios including SoulCycl…
Grindr reported $130 million in Q1 revenue, up 38% year-on-year, and raised full-year guidance to $535 million Average p…
Tinder Canada's Astrology Mode campaign generated over 770,000 influencer impressions and more than 24,000 engagements i…
79% of US Gen Z respondents reported avoiding regular use of dating apps according to a 2023 Axios study Match Group rep…
More than 30,000 people applied for 27 internship positions at Match Group, producing a 0.09% acceptance rate The share …
Matrimony.com reported Q4 net profit of ₹9.7 crore (£750,000), up 18.7% year-on-year Revenue grew 7.8% to ₹116.8 crore (…
Tinder lost 7% of monthly active users year-on-year as of March 2026 Match Group revenue still grew 4% to $864M despite …
Match Group's SVP of Trust and Safety Yoel Roth has joined Reality Defender's Ethics Committee, which establishes guardr…
Grindr posted $129.94 million in Q1 2026 revenue, a 38% year-on-year increase that beat analyst estimates by nearly 10% …
Bumble reported Q1 revenue of $212.4M but lost 21.1% of paying users year-over-year, down to 3.2 million Net earnings su…
47% of Gen Z would prefer to meet romantic partners at book clubs rather than dating apps, according to ThriftBooks rese…
Match Group reported Q1 revenue of $864M, beating analyst estimates of $854.9M, whilst announcing hiring slowdown for re…
Known charges $15 per confirmed first date, not per month of app usage or premium features The company has raised $10M f…
Match Group invested $100M for a minority stake in Sniffies with an option to acquire the platform outright later Match …
Hinge's new 'Signals' badge identifies users who regularly send personalised messages, confirm dates, and maintain activ…
Match Group has partnered with World, Sam Altman's biometric scanning company, to introduce iris-scanning verification f…
Mike Sherrill, co-founder of Machine Zone behind the $2.8B Game of War, has invested an undisclosed sum in SPARK, a dati…
Bumble has refinanced its debt with a $475 million senior secured term loan from STORY3 Capital Partners and a syndicate…
Swiss dating startup noii scrapped its matching algorithm in August 2025 to focus exclusively on in-person events The pl…
EliteSingles users received just 48 hours' notice before the platform shuts down permanently on 30 April 2026 Parent com…
Grindr has 14 million monthly active users who spend an average of one hour per day on the app The Madonna campaign prom…
Match Group has built a $9 billion business on dating apps that psychiatrist Amir Levine argues exploit neurological thr…
Tinder's user base has collapsed from 65.4 million in 2021 to 50.5 million today—a 23% decline Men now represent roughly…
84% of EU adults do not trust American tech companies with their personal data, according to a Politico survey of nearly…
Eight has raised €256,600 of a planned €3M seed round, representing roughly 8.5% of the target The app operates for just…
Yidui posted $570M revenue and $65.2M operating profit for fiscal 2024, tripling profit year-on-year 16.4% of users pay …
The League has launched in Mumbai and Delhi, marking Match Group's first Asia expansion for its LinkedIn-verified, invit…
Plus 1 has reached 10,000 downloads in its first six months operating exclusively in South Florida The app has introduce…
Tinder investing $125M annually in trust and safety, representing roughly 4% of Match Group's $3.19B total 2023 revenue …
Tinder downloads collapsed from 61 million in 2021 to 48 million in 2025—a 21% decline Match Group CEO Spencer Rascoff h…
Friending has raised £5M in seed funding to launch a platonic friendship app that forces users to meet within 48 hours o…
New York-based 222 has closed $10.1M in Series A funding, bringing total raised to $13.7M The platform charges $22 per m…
Bumble Q4 revenue hit $273M, beating expectations by 1.3% despite 14% year-on-year decline Total paying users dropped 20…
13D Management liquidated its entire Match Group position in Q4 2024, selling 64,350 shares worth $4.69M Match shares ha…
Meta now charges advertisers 2-5% 'location fees' on campaigns in the UK, France, Austria, Spain, Italy, and Türkiye to …
Meetic launching Speak Easy in-person events to non-subscribers from 2026, moving beyond app-only perks Match Group's in…
Match Group eliminated its COO position just 12 months after creating it, resulting in the departure of 18-year veteran …
Soirée launches in Luxembourg with monthly memberships from €49 to €199, offering vetted access and in-person events Lux…
Hati charges £48 per week (potentially £2,496 annually), making it four to six times more expensive than mainstream dati…
Match Group will host its first-ever standalone product event, SPARKS 2025, on 12 March 2025, focused exclusively on Tin…
Rodeo has raised $8.5M in seed funding led by Coefficient Capital, with participation from Forerunner Ventures and forme…
Green Flags charges men to contest or remove negative reviews posted about them on Tea, a women-only dating safety app t…
Threads is testing clickable 'DM me' links in the U.S. and Canada that turn public posts into instant private conversati…
Grindr reported Q4 revenue of $126M, up 29% year-over-year, beating analyst estimates by $4M The company announced a $40…
Steven Bartlett backs pre-revenue dating app hati in Dragons' Den deal, cutting against two years of selective consumer …
Bumble Inc reported 4.4 million paying users in Q3 2024, down from 4.6 million the previous quarter Revenue growth has s…
Pinterest searches for 'no phone summer' climbed 340% year-over-year, with 'screen free activities' up 200% The platform…
Ashley Madison reports 57% of new 2025 sign-ups identified as single, prompting a rebrand from 'affairs destination' to …
Two-thirds of Americans now view financial literacy as an attractive trait in potential partners, rising to 76% of Gen Z…
QuackQuack surveyed 10,463 active daters aged 20–35 across Indian Tier 1, 2, and 3 cities 57% of respondents prefer Thir…
45% of female dating app users report feeling 'overwhelmed' by potential matches, compared to 26% of men (Pew Research, …
TikTok follower growth exceeded 200% year-on-year in 2025, outpacing all major platforms Instagram delivered only mid-si…
Saudi Arabia's dating app market generated nearly $16M in revenue from 3.5 million downloads in the past year Approximat…
UK dating app usage has fallen 16% since 2024, with Tinder losing over 500,000 British users The UK matchmaking market i…
Thursday claims a $50M valuation, three years behind the 2021 public deadline set by co-founder George Rawlings The anno…
Trust in UK dating apps collapsed 20 percentage points in a single year, with 84% of users now saying AI-generated conte…
Snapchat+ has reached 25 million paying subscribers, driving Snap Inc.'s direct revenue to a $1 billion annual run rate …
Match Group share price has fallen over 60% from its 2021 peak due to stagnating Tinder growth and margin compression Bu…
Snapchat will begin alpha testing Creator Subscriptions in the U.S. from 23rd February, charging fans $4.99 to $19.99 mo…
Pinterest revenue hit $1.32B in Q4 2025, missing Wall Street's $1.33B consensus and triggering a 20% share price collaps…
DUA AG has acquired Vancouver-based personality-first dating app IRLY in an undisclosed all-cash deal IRLY emerged from …
Pinterest added 19 million monthly active users in Q4 2025, reaching 619 million globally Revenue hit $1.3 billion for t…
TikTok rolled out Local Feed to 170 million US users on 11th February, using GPS tracking to surface nearby venues and e…
PositiveSingles, an STD-focused dating platform, has launched a lifetime membership tier explicitly targeting celebritie…
Grindr is testing an AI-powered subscription tier priced up to $499 per month—ten times standard premium dating app cost…
Breeze has partnered with Bolt to offer users 40% off their first trip to a date, alongside a nine-point safety guide 34…
Snap Inc. reported 24 million paid subscribers in Q4 2025, a 71% year-over-year surge Daily active users declined from 4…
ParshipMeet Group appoints Justin Zinck, former HelloFresh Senior Director Finance, as CFO from February 2026 Match Grou…
Tinder reported a 9% decrease in monthly active users for Q4 2025 year-over-year New registrations fell 5% year-over-yea…
Match Group spent $182M on product development last year whilst user satisfaction scores continue to slide across major …
Ditto has raised $9.2M in seed funding from Peak XV Partners, Gradient, Scribble Ventures, Alumni Ventures, and Llama Ve…
UpScrolled grew from 150,000 to 2.5 million users in four weeks following TikTok's January restructuring Skylight, built…
PURE dating app reports $100M in annual gross revenue for 2025, up 46% year-over-year, with 95% registration growth Matc…
Bethenny Frankel's The Core charges up to $1,200 annually but is reportedly struggling to attract subscribers UK's Perso…
Flutrr partners with Saregama, one of India's oldest music labels, to launch music-based matchmaking as a paid premium t…
Microsoft dropped 'record levels of engagement' language from LinkedIn's Q4 earnings for the first time since 2018, desp…
Meta's family of apps now reaches 3.58 billion daily active users across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and T…
Left Field secured £156,000 ($200,000) from Kendra Scott and Alexis Ohanian on Shark Tank for 8% equity plus 4% advisory…
Thursday has partnered with Pepsi UK to host a branded singles event on 12 February 2026 at The Ministry in Borough, wit…
Match Group spent $504M on sales and marketing in 2023, whilst Bumble burned through $282M acquiring users from the same…
TikTok's new U.S. joint venture will retrain its algorithm using exclusively American user data, hosted in Oracle's clou…
80% of Gen Z believe they'll find lasting love, but only 55% feel ready for partnership now—a 25-percentage-point gap Ma…
Threads now claims over 400 million monthly active users, up from 300 million when monetisation began Platform has overt…
Spark Networks Services GmbH filed for preliminary insolvency on 16 January 2025 in Berlin court, affecting Zoosk, Elite…
Info Edge pumped ₹10 crore into Aisle through subsidiary Jeevansathi Internet Services Aisle posted net loss of ₹17.80 c…
TikTok's latest extension expires 23 January 2026, with no final approval from ByteDance, investors or Chinese governmen…
Love Group Global posted $369,000 net operating cash flow in Q2 FY2026, its highest quarterly operating cash flow on rec…
Bluesky's US daily iOS installs jumped from 4,000 in late December to 29,000 by mid-January—a 625% increase The platform…
Hinge became Match Group's second-largest revenue contributor by Q3 2024, with double-digit year-over-year growth Match …
Match Group's Tinder saw average revenue per paying user decline 2% year-on-year in Q2 2025, whilst Bumble reported flat…
Dating Options, a Warwickshire-based matchmaking firm, reported £2.19M in revenue for 2025 The company facilitated 2,222…
Match Group has missed subscriber growth targets for four consecutive quarters Like Love, founded February 2025, has ope…
Match Group acquired Her in 2025, marking its entry into dedicated sapphic dating 68% of Her users surveyed are slowly r…
Instagram has expanded manual Reels algorithm controls to all English-speaking users, allowing selection of topic catego…
Nearly 40% of Gen Z users now begin searches on Pinterest rather than Google, signalling a shift toward visual, explorat…
Match Group and Bumble spend hundreds of millions annually on performance marketing through Meta and Google TikTok's new…
TikTok has launched a printable weekly planner to help families discuss screen time, marking a shift from purely digital…
WedKnott has secured investment from blockchain entrepreneur Pratik Gauri, founder of 5ire (reportedly valued at $1.5 bi…
WedKnott, a matchmaking platform for high-earning Indian professionals, has secured undisclosed investment from blockcha…
TikTok becomes FIFA's first-ever 'Preferred Platform' for the 2026 World Cup, running 11 June to 19 July across North Am…
WhatsApp handles over 100 billion messages daily across 2 billion users Bumble's paying user base fell 6% year-over-year…
TikTok is phasing out Custom Identity anonymous advertising in early 2026, forcing all advertisers to run campaigns thro…
Match Group's share price has collapsed over five years as the company struggles to convert free users into paying subsc…
Match Group spent $447M on sales and marketing in Q3 2024, with Bumble spending $133M in the same quarter TikTok release…
Known raised $9.7M from Forerunner, NFX, Pear VC, and Coelius Capital to launch a pay-per-date model charging $30 per ac…
India delivered 200 million dating app downloads in 2025, making it the largest single market by volume globally Tinder …
Matrimony.com shares jumped 14% following announcement of third share buyback since 2022 Previous buybacks offered premi…
Match Group's share price has collapsed from $182 in 2021 to around $35 today as AI companion apps gain traction Charact…
TikTok's Nearby Feed launched in the UK, Ireland, Netherlands, and Norway, surfacing public posts from users within roug…
GoodDate is a nonprofit dating platform registered as a 501(c)(3) organisation in the US, offering compatibility-based m…
Bethenny Frankel launched The Core this week, charging members between $700 and $1,200 for access to a screened dating c…
Facebook Dating has reached 'top player' status in the US without spending on traditional marketing, according to Meta's…
Grindr's board terminated a $3.46 billion take-private proposal on 6 January after majority shareholders Ray Zage and Ja…
Facebook Dating has reached 21 million daily active users, comparable to or exceeding Hinge's reported user base Meta ha…
Info Edge Ventures paid Rs. 5.50 crores ($650,000) for the remaining 3.65% stake in Aisle Network, giving it full owners…
Grindr generated $316M in annual revenue with a 39.4% EBITDA margin in Q3 2024 The company added 686,000 paying subscrib…
Yuzu has launched a 'phygital' campaign with Chubby Group featuring a five-part web series, branded £14 cocktail, and in…
Matrimony.com's net profit dropped 41% year-on-year to ₹167 million ($2M) in Q2 FY2026 Revenue declined just 1% to ₹1.57…
Match Group's Tinder has lost 900,000 paying subscribers between Q2 2023 and Q2 2024, dropping from 10.9 million to 10.0…
Match Group reported 2% year-on-year revenue growth to $914M in Q3 2024 The company spent $550M on share buybacks year-t…
34% of dating app users have used platforms for professional networking or career purposes in the past year Nearly 10% c…
Facebook Dating has reached 21.5 million daily active users across 52 countries with zero monetisation US user growth am…
Tinder has made video selfie verification mandatory for new users in eight markets including California, UK, Australia, …
Bumble's US daily active users fell 6.4% year-on-year, outpacing Tinder's 5% decline Share price has collapsed from $76 …
MediaForEurope's €1.8bn takeover of ProSiebenSat.1 has triggered the sale of ParshipMeet Group, which operates dating br…
Tinder generated $2.06B in revenue in 2024, up just 1% year-on-year Paying subscriber base declined 7% over the same per…
Tinder revenue fell 5% year-on-year in Q4 2024, whilst Bumble's paying users dropped 5% quarter-on-quarter Cerca, a dati…
Spark has launched in Singapore and Thailand with integrated venue booking directly in chat, targeting $1.5M annual reve…
Knot.dating claims operational profitability within six months, imposing a ₹50 lakh (~£48,000) annual income requirement…
Grindr is in talks for a $3 billion private buyout following lender Fullerton Financial Holdings seizing shares after de…
Match Group's average revenue per paying user rose from $15.68 to $18.23 between Q3 2022 and Q3 2024, driven primarily b…
Grindr appoints John North as CFO, a finance executive from Enterprise Holdings, AutoNation, and Copart with no consumer…
Gigi pivoted from AI dating app to professional networking after just 2 years, citing the fundamental paradox that succe…
Tinder's paying user base has stagnated at approximately 10M subscribers across Q2 and Q3 2024 despite continuous featur…
The UK's widowed population stands at approximately 3.5 million people, representing a substantial addressable market hi…
Feels claims to have reached $10M in annual recurring revenue within six months of launch, with fewer than 12 people and…
Hello Group (NASDAQ: MOMO) has acquired full ownership of French dating app Happn, which claims 170 million registered u…
Bumble has spun out BFF, its friendship feature, into a standalone app after eight years inside the main platform The mo…
RSVP has operated in Australia for 27 years, predating the swipe-based dating app era that began in 2012 Tinder remains …
Match Group controls approximately half the global dating market through properties including Tinder, Hinge, Match.com, …
Hello Group revenue fell to $186.6M in Q4 2024, down 2.6% year-on-year Paid users plummeted 15% to 7.3 million despite A…
Match Group targeting $1bn revenue from Hinge by 2027, requiring 10-12% compound annual growth from current $700-750m ba…
Approximately 10% of Ireland's population has red hair, creating an addressable market of roughly 500,000 people for Gin…
Chapter 2 Dating Ltd has acquired M14, the white-label platform powering its niche dating apps, ending third-party infra…
Match Group reported 14.1 million paying users in Q2, down 5% year-on-year The company pays more than $520 million annua…
Tinder India generated approximately $16M in consumer spend during 2023—less than the app earns in a fortnight in the Un…
Fourplay Social has driven 500,000 downloads and facilitated over 750,000 connections since launching in 2020 Match Grou…
Raya maintains an active user base of 100,000-200,000 whilst sitting on a waitlist of 2.5 million people The app has bee…
Grindr's revenue climbed 27% year-over-year in Q4 2024, nine times faster than Match Group's 3% growth to $864M Tinder's…
QuackQuack surveyed 11,756 Indian users aged 18-30, with 57% reporting connections outside traditional relationship cate…
Google has narrowed geographic restrictions on dating and companionship ads to just 17 countries, potentially opening do…
Grindr reported Q2 2025 revenue of $104M, up 27% year-on-year, with adjusted EBITDA of £45M and a 43% EBITDA margin Mont…
Pure reports 67% year-on-year subscription growth and claims a roughly equal gender split—a significant anomaly in a mar…
Matrimony.com net profit fell 39.5% year-on-year to Rs 8.4 crore (£830,000) in Q1 FY26 Sequential improvement of 15% fro…
Match Group's Sentinel system logged hundreds of sexual assault reports weekly by 2022, according to shareholder lawsuit…
Bumble announced 350 redundancies (30% of workforce) alongside a £76.7M cost-cutting programme Q4 revenue fell 7.6% to $…
Amanda Bradford departs Match Group after her non-compete agreement expired, leaving The League two years after the Apri…
Match Group reported $864M in Q2 revenue whilst losing 5% of paying users year-on-year, dropping to 14.1 million subscri…
10% of Britons now meet their partners through dating apps, according to Relate research Dating platforms typically run …
Grindr reports second-quarter results on 7 August with 14.5 million monthly active users across 190 countries The compan…
Match Group shares have collapsed roughly 80% since February 2021, erasing approximately $40 billion in market capitalis…
53% of Gleeden users aged 45–60 are using the extramarital affair platform to find platonic friendships rather than roma…
Aisle introduces weekly premium subscriptions at ₹99 (86 pence) from July 2025, undercutting competitors like Tinder Gol…
Bumble raised £22M in early funding and went public in February 2021 at a $13B valuation The company now trades at rough…
Bumble shares rose 3% on Wednesday following stronger-than-expected US retail sales data The company eliminated 240 posi…
Match Group has integrated Qloo's AI recommendation engine into four niche dating apps: BLK, Chispa, Upward, and Yuzu In…
Match Group generated $3.2B in annual revenue from business models that optimise for user engagement and extended app us…
Muzz hosted its first offline singles event in India with approximately 100 participants using structured activities and…
Match Group reports AI usage across its dating platforms has surged 300% year-on-year 20% of users prompted by AI modera…
Grindr reported 25% revenue growth whilst Bumble trades at $6, down 86% from its $43 IPO price Pew Research shows dating…
China's marriage rate has plummeted by nearly half since 2013, falling to a record low of 6.8 million marriages in 2022 …
Bumble is eliminating 30% of its workforce — approximately 240 employees — to save $40M annually This follows a 350-pers…
Bonnie Winston charges up to $150,000 (£120,000) annually for premium matchmaking services in New York London-based Macl…
Ysos has 3 million registered users globally and is now expanding into the US market Parent platform Sexlog has analysed…
Perth matchmaking services charge $3,000 to $8,000 per client versus dating apps' $40/month premium tiers 80% of millenn…
Pawsome Pair promises to donate 20% of subscription revenue to animal shelters, entering a pet-dating vertical with at l…
Grindr expects 26% revenue growth in 2025, significantly outpacing Match Group's low single-digit growth and Bumble's fl…
30% of Tinder matches now involve LGBTQ+ users, positioning queer singles as core to platform economics rather than a ni…
Three Day Rule acquired by Palm Venture Studios, shifting from boutique matchmaker offering packages up to £800,000 towa…
AlgoAI Tech has launched a-love, a white-label matching platform enabling organisations to deploy branded dating service…
Pure Payout has operated in the niche dating affiliate space since 2007, nearly two decades of infrastructure serving hy…
Mattr has secured 26,000 downloads and facilitated 50,000 conversations since launching in 2021 The company is raising t…
Four new dating platforms launched in February 2025, each promising to solve algorithmic opacity whilst deploying sophis…
JPMorgan sets $5 price target for Bumble, implying 30% downside, with recovery not expected until 2027 Hinge grew revenu…
Hinge is testing chat limits that force users to focus on existing conversations before starting new ones AI-powered 'Wa…
Grindr raised its 2025 revenue guidance to $405M-$415M after Q4 2024, outperforming expectations whilst Match Group and …
Tinder generates over 50% of Match Group's $1.8B annual revenue but has lost cultural currency with Gen Z users Match Gr…
Tinder is offering 20 users up to £150 each (£3,000 total) to subsidise the cost of bringing a date to a wedding this sp…
Tinder CEO Faye Iosotaluno will step down in July after just 18 months in the role Match Group disclosed Q1 2025 paying …
Match Group's share price down 34% over past year; Bumble down 21% Happn claims 120 million registered users globally bu…
E.l.f. Beauty (valued at $8.4B) has partnered with Tawkify matchmaking service for a new dating show Tawkify charges bet…
Match Group has acquired HER, the dating platform for queer women and non-binary people, with financial terms undisclose…
Will Wu, Match Group's chief technology and product officer, is departing after roughly two years in the role Four senio…
Tea has attracted over 500,000 users and generated $1.6M in annual recurring revenue in just over one year Americans rep…
Bumble reported Q1 revenue of $247.1M, down 7% year-on-year, yet shares climbed 7% Paying users fell nearly 1% to 2.7M w…
BeeDee has acquired UK-based Meet Kinksters, marking Meet Kinksters' exit just three years after its 2022 launch The com…
Grindr is deploying its AI conversation summary feature to just 25% of premium subscribers, reaching approximately 2.5% …
Match Group is relaunching Pairs in South Korea, where marriages have fallen 40% since 2014 and the fertility rate stand…
Sitch has raised $2M in pre-seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz's Speedrun accelerator The platform charges $90–160 …
Match Group is investing £1 million to fund Hinge users' real-world meetups in London pubs, cafés, and community centres…
Bumble's share price has collapsed 91% from its February 2021 peak of $76 to $6.87 Seven-day user retention among 18-24-…
Quickmeets, a new dating app from a Penn graduate, uses AI to match users based on uploaded photos of celebrity crushes …
Lunch Actually acquired dating app Paktor, creating a hybrid matchmaking-app model across six Asian markets with over 10…
Match Group appoints Spencer Rascoff as its fourth CEO in six years following Bernard Kim's 18-month tenure Bumble reins…
Tinder is operating a clothing upcycling pop-up in New York on 15–16 February where singles can transform garments from …
Social platform advertising now represents 67% of Match Group's performance marketing spend, up from 54% in 2021 38% of …
Social Discovery Group commits $20 million to venture fund targeting AI-powered dating tools and VR social platforms Fun…
Bumble shutting down Fruitz and Official dating apps on 31st May after less than three years of ownership Fruitz downloa…
ColdStart, an AI marketing tool spun out from dating app Bindr, has secured more than $1 million in contracts since laun…
Match Group's average revenue per paying user was roughly $16 in Q3 2024, whilst premium matchmaking services charge £20…
Bumble's market capitalisation has collapsed more than 90% from its February 2021 IPO peak of $14B to approximately $1.2…
Hello Group's net income collapsed 59% in Q4 2024 to $32.2M, whilst revenue fell 12% year-on-year to $471.2M Middle East…
Match Group controls approximately 45% of the global dating market through Tinder, Hinge, OkCupid, and Match.com Match's…
48% of Slide1828 users reported feeling uncomfortable meeting someone alone from a dating app Match Group's Hinge report…
Tinder's paying subscribers fell 9% year-on-year to 9.6 million in Q3 2024, down from 10.6 million Bumble reported a 4% …
Tinder will introduce AI-curated matching later in 2024, the first alternative to its signature swipe mechanic in over a…
Match Group shares fell 3.2% in after-hours trading following the CEO announcement, wiping roughly $400M off market capi…
Match Group shares fell 9% after appointing Spencer Rascoff as CEO and projecting 2025 revenue of $3.43B to $3.48B, miss…
Bumble Inc is shuttering Fruitz and Official apps, accepting a $12.2 million annual revenue hit as it retreats to core p…
Bumble shares plunged 18% after Q1 revenue guidance of $242M-$248M missed consensus by $9M Paying users reached 4.2M in …
Mattr has raised £177,000 through crowdfunding—78% of its £225,000 target—from 247 investors with three days remaining T…
Match Group deploys AI message screening across Tinder and Hinge to combat harassment 20% of users revise flagged messag…
Tinder lost more than 500,000 users between 2023 and 2024 The top ten dating platforms saw a 16% year-on-year decline in…
Tinder's Dating Safety Guide has been translated into Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, and Marathi—the first time it's been avai…
Tinder's share of Match Group revenue fell from 48% in 2022 to 42% in 2024, with continued membership declines reported …
Tinder's monthly active users fell 8% year-on-year in January 2025 Revenue came in below analyst forecasts, prompting ur…
Social League launches in Dubai this month targeting professionals aged 30-60 with invitation-only events and vetted mem…
UC Davis researchers tracked 4,500 blind dates and found both men and women showed higher attraction to younger partners…
Match Group has experienced eight consecutive quarters of declining payer numbers across its portfolio Between September…
Nearly two million Britons now use dating apps, but 45% of users report feeling frustrated or pessimistic about the expe…
Feeld reported 107% user growth between 2022 and 2023, expanding beyond its niche origins The platform has been publishi…
Tinder reported 20% more messages sent on Dating Sunday 2025 than any previous iteration Hinge posted a 40% uplift in ac…
Tinder reports swipes jump 20%, likes climb 15%, and matches increase 10% on Dating Sunday compared to an average Sunday…
Match Group's total paying subscribers fell to 10.3 million in Q3 2024, down from 10.8 million the prior year Hinge rema…
Grindr closed at $16.75 this week, more than doubling its year-ago price and reaching its highest valuation since going …
Match Group has 16 million paying subscribers globally whilst Bumble claims 4 million KRUSH reported fewer than 500 comb…
Facebook Dating logged a 24% increase in daily conversations amongst 18-29 year-olds over the past year Women using Face…
Bumble shares have declined roughly 80% from their February 2021 IPO peak of around $76, trading near $15 in recent week…
Dateability has reached 25,000 users across North America since launching in 2022, entirely through organic growth with …
Match Group shares dropped 13% after forecasting Q4 revenue below expectations, driven by Tinder's mid-single digit year…
Match Group shares fell 13% after projecting Q4 revenue of $865M-$875M, below analyst expectations Tinder holds 36% of U…
Tinder will donate AUD$1 to domestic violence charity Wesnet for each profile verification in Australia between 12 Novem…
Three Day Rule acquired by unnamed private investment group with Adam Cohen-Aslatei installed as CEO Cohen-Aslatei previ…
Meta's Facebook Dating grew 20% across North America in the past year, reaching 24% in the U.S. and Canada, though total…
Date Right has achieved 3.4 million TikTok followers but only 300,000 downloads since iOS launch—a conversion rate that …
Match Group's Tinder lost 8% of paying users year-over-year in Q3 2024, whilst Bumble's paying subscribers dropped 3% in…
Bumble reported Q3 2024 revenue of $273.6M, down 0.7% year-over-year—the first revenue decline since going public three …
Bindr has raised $135,000 through two startup competitions in under a year, with $75,000 from Pittsburgh's UpPrize Socia…
RAW's 'Ghosting Killer' feature blocks users from starting new conversations until they respond to existing ones, even i…
Match Group reported an 8% year-on-year drop in Tinder paying users whilst HER grew its user base 15% in 2024 to 13 mill…
Dating app operators will spend $252M on advertising in 2024, a 15% increase from 2023 Bumble's ad spend ($44M through J…
DOWN claims 15 million registered users and 400% revenue growth in 2024 with near-zero advertising spend Match Group spe…
Greenlight launches beta in Hoboken, New Jersey by end of November, eliminating profiles and messaging in favour of real…
FROME caps members at five conversations per month unless they pay to unlock more Match Group's Tinder revenue declined …
78% of dating app users report experiencing burnout from romantic matchmaking, according to Forbes Match Group generated…
Bumble faces securities fraud lawsuit over alleged misrepresentation of Premium Plus subscriptions and February 2024 app…
Schmooze has raised $4M in Series A funding, bringing total capital to $7.5M since 2021 launch The meme-based dating app…
The League is launching a hybrid model priced at $250-$1,000 per month for in-person dating events, representing a 10x i…
Tinder's daily active users dropped 10% year-over-year whilst Hinge grew 17% in the same period 85% of Gen Z singles act…
Gaydar, once the UK's dominant gay dating platform, is co-launching a physical sex party with KK Group on 19 October Tic…
Match Group's average revenue per paying user reached $17.93 in Q3 2024, up 7% year-over-year, with 'à la carte feature …
Bumble's share price has fallen roughly 85% from its February 2021 peak of $13B valuation Monthly active users declined …
79% of Gen Z singles use dating apps less than once a month, according to Axios and Generation Lab Tinder's paying subsc…
Bumble Inc reports Q2 earnings Wednesday with analysts expecting revenue of $273M, up 5% year-on-year, and adjusted EPS …
Three dating apps—Better In Person, Lovector, and Find Our Way—launched between 15-17 July with near-identical value pro…
Bindr, a dating app for bisexual and LGBTQ+ users, won $60,000 at Startupfest's inaugural queer entrepreneur pitch compe…
Six new dating platforms launched in recent weeks, each claiming algorithmic superiority or demographic specificity Matc…
Grindr raised full-year revenue guidance to between 23% and 25% growth and projected annual growth of 20% to 25% through…
Hearts launched in November 2023 without a permanent CEO and is only now advertising for one, offering equity-only compe…
Google projects the online dating market will reach €8.6bn by 2027 with 672.4M users worldwide, growing by €310M this ye…
Match Group has appointed Jay Shetty, bestselling author and podcast host, as Chief Relationship Advisor to develop valu…
Match Group's Chispa caps Pride donation at $10,000—roughly 0.0007% of the company's $1.4B Q1 2024 revenue 11% of US Lat…
