Hayley Birkin

Meetic will open its Speak Easy in-person singles events to non-subscribers from 2026, after a 70-person Paris event in October 2024.

Match Group scrapped its COO role 12 months after creating it, and Hesam Hosseini, who led Tinder and Hinge, is leaving, a filing shows.

Crush, a new Luxembourg dating platform, vets every member and matches people only at in-person events, with no online browsing.

Steven Bartlett invested £150,000 for 30% of hati, a UK dating app built on five-minute phone calls, which had £48 of revenue when it pitched.

Match Group will host SPARKS 2025, its first standalone product event, on 12 March 2025, with Tinder's roadmap the sole focus.

Rodeo, founded by former Hinge executives, raised $8.5M in seed funding led by Coefficient Capital for an app that turns social posts into friend plans.

Green Flags charges men to contest or remove negative reviews on the women-only dating safety app Tea, according to 404 Media.

Bumble Inc launched AI photo and bio coaching tools and is testing Suggest a Date in Canada, as paying users fell to 4.4 million in Q3 2024.

Threads is testing clickable "DM me" links in the U.S. and Canada, a move the story says copies dating apps' low-friction private messaging.

Grindr reported Q4 revenue of $126M, up 29% year-over-year, beating estimates by $4M, and launched Edge, a premium AI subscription tier.

Pinterest's Parenting Trend Report shows 'no phone summer' searches up 340%, which may push dating apps to add parenting-philosophy filters.

Ashley Madison says 57% of new 2025 sign-ups identified as single and is rebranding as a 'privacy-first dating service'.

Two-thirds of Americans see financial literacy as attractive in a partner, rising to 76% of Gen Z, according to a survey commissioned by OKX.

Psychologists link a reported rise in young women attending Medieval Times to dating app burnout, though the evidence is largely anecdotal.

QuackQuack's survey of 10,463 Indian daters says 57% prefer activity-based meetups over dinner dates, a shift that could pressure app conversion models.

TikTok follower growth for brands exceeded 200% year-on-year in 2025, while Instagram managed mid-single-digit median growth, according to Emplifi.

Saudi Arabia's dating app market made nearly $16M from 3.5 million downloads in the past year, with users paying for privacy and anonymity features.

Thursday says it has hit a $50M valuation and opened a Series A, targeting $500M within five years, per a LinkedIn post by co-founder George Rawlings.

UK dating app usage has fallen 16% since 2024, with Tinder losing over 500,000 British users, as human matchmaking grows 8% annually.

Sumsub survey: 84% of UK dating app users say AI content makes matches harder to trust, up from 64%, with 67% now verifying matches themselves.