Hayley Birkin

Spark Networks Services GmbH, the business behind Zoosk and Christian Mingle, filed for preliminary insolvency in Berlin on 16 January.

Info Edge put ₹10 crore into dating app Aisle via Jeevansathi Internet Services, as Aisle posted a ₹17.80 crore net loss in FY25.

TikTok is rolling out AI age verification across the EU, raising the compliance bar for dating apps that still rely on self-declaration.

Love Group Global posted $369,000 net operating cash flow in Q2 FY2026, a record for the Hong Kong and Singapore matchmaker, after a $1.8M FY2025 net loss.

Bluesky added cashtags and Live Now badges but still lacks image DMs, while US daily iOS installs reached 29,000 by mid-January, per Appfigures.

Tea has relaunched its website after July breaches exposed IDs and selfie videos of over one million users, with three class actions still active.

X has revoked API access for infoFi apps that pay users in tokens or perks to post. Head of product Nikita Bier cites AI slop and reply spam.

Event app Partiful launched Crush in select US markets in late December, letting users anonymously mark up to 10 'Mutuals' as romantic interests.

Hinge was Match Group's second-largest revenue contributor by Q3 2024, but Match has not disclosed Hinge deletion rates or retention data.

Dating Options, a Warwickshire matchmaker, reported £2.19M in 2025 revenue and claims 2,222 new relationships, with no third-party verification.

Match Group's Her launched "The Sapphic Restart", a campaign promoting slow dating. Her says 68% of surveyed users are slowly returning to dating.

Meta removed 550,000 Australian accounts in the first week of the under-16 social media ban, a sign of age verification costs dating apps may face.

Instagram has expanded manual Reels algorithm controls to all English-speaking users, a test case for dating apps weighing algorithm transparency.

Like Love, which has run in-person singles events for 12 months, plans a dating app but declined to share user or revenue figures.

Surf Dating is now an official HYROX partner, hosting in-person singles meetups at fitness racing events across North America.

Nearly 40% of Gen Z users begin searches on Pinterest, not Google, a shift that challenges algorithm-driven dating apps.

TikTok has added six Channel Sales Partners to its Marketing Partners Programme, which could help smaller dating apps test paid campaigns.

Indian matchmaker WedKnott raised funding from blockchain entrepreneur Pratik Gauri to expand into Dubai and London.

TikTok launched a printable weekly planner for families on screen time, which the analysis says dating apps could copy to answer regulators.

Indonesia and Malaysia have blocked X's Grok chatbot over non-consensual sexualised images, including of minors, a warning for dating operators.