Hayley Birkin

Tinder's Gen Z staff group urged Match Group CEO Spencer Rascoff to fix safety and profile quality before adding more features.

Nicky Wake, founder of Chapter 2 Dating and WidowsFire, has launched The Widowed Collective, a non-profit offering bereavement support to widowed people.

Dating app Feels claims $10M in annual recurring revenue within six months of launch, with fewer than 12 people and less than $5M in funding.

Hello Group has acquired full ownership of French dating app Happn, which claims 170 million registered users, and targets Asia and Africa.

RSVP, launched in Australia in 1997, is pitching an anti-swipe model, but parent Oasiswork does not disclose subscriber or revenue figures.

Bumble has spun out its BFF friendship feature into a standalone US app after eight years, following workforce cuts of nearly a third.

Australia's mandatory Online Dating Code, the first of its kind, began 1 April and gives Match Group and Bumble six months to comply.

Match Group is using AI to personalise dating and monitor safety, but does not publish how it balances match quality and engagement.

Match Group issued a cease-and-desist to a British man over a parody Tinder app featuring only his wife's profile, alleging IP violations.

Hello Group's paid users fell 15% to 7.3 million in Q4 2024 despite AI conversation coaching, and revenue fell 2.6% to $186.6M year-on-year.

Match Group targets $1bn in Hinge revenue by 2027, up from $700-750m, as Tinder loses ground with Gen Z, CEO Spencer Rascoff said.

Irish dating app Ginger Zinger replaces swiping with direct messaging for redheads and admirers, in a market of roughly 500,000 people.

Sapphos, a Brazilian lesbian dating app, exposed 17,000 users' government IDs and selfies through an IDOR flaw and shut down in early November.

Chapter 2 Dating Ltd has acquired white-label platform M14, which powers its niche dating apps, ending its reliance on third-party infrastructure.

Match Group reported 14.1 million paying users in Q2, down 5% year-on-year, and has set out a three-year plan built on AI.

Ofcom will brief dating operators on Online Safety Act duties on 6 February; fines reach up to £18 million or 10% of qualifying worldwide revenue.

The Global Dating Conference runs in London on 26-27 March, with sessions on safety regulation, AI compliance and revenue beyond subscriptions.

Ofcom's trial found a gamified dating app simulator improved scam detection versus static warnings, with effects lasting at least four weeks after one session.

Tinder India generated approximately $16M in consumer spend in 2023, according to Sensor Tower, with dating apps focused on metros over smaller cities.

Garbo, the nonprofit background check service on Tinder and other Match Group apps, has shut down after its partnership with Match ended.