Hayley Birkin

Match Group shares fell 9% after it named Spencer Rascoff CEO, with Q4 revenue of $900M, up 1% year-on-year, and Tinder revenue flat.

Seeking.com now requires AI facial verification for new users only and exempts all existing members from biometric checks.

Bumble Inc is closing its Fruitz and Official apps and cutting 350 roles, roughly 30% of its workforce, to focus on its core platforms.

Bumble shares fell 18% after Q1 revenue guidance of $242M to $248M missed the $256.9M consensus, as Whitney Wolfe Herd returns as CEO.

Mattr, a London dating app for neurodivergent users, has raised £177,000 via crowdfunding, 78% of its £225,000 target, from 247 investors.

Match Group's Tinder lost more than 500,000 users between 2023 and 2024, and usage across the top ten dating platforms fell 16% year on year.

Match Group is rolling out AI message screening on Tinder and Hinge, with 20% of warned users revising messages, according to safety chief Yoel Roth.

Global Dating Insights' 2025 Power Book names 16 leaders, and more than half build or oversee AI-driven products. Four are based in the UK.

Match Group's Chispa staged a one-night off-Broadway Romeo and Juliet through a Latino lens, but Match no longer reports app-level metrics.

Match Group has translated Tinder's Dating Safety Guide into Bengali, Hindi, Kannada and Marathi for India, ahead of Safer Internet Day on 11 February.

Tinder's monthly active users fell 8% year-on-year in January 2025, and Match Group is speeding up AI matching under new CEO Spencer Rascoff.

Tinder says TikTok influencers are reversing negative sentiment among young users, but Match has not disclosed the study's methodology.

Social League launches in Dubai this month with invitation-only events for professionals aged 30-60, offering an offline alternative to dating apps.

A UC Davis study of 4,500 blind dates found both men and women were more attracted to younger partners in person, challenging stated-preference matching.

Tinder used six influencers from September to December 2024 as Match Group payers fell for eight consecutive quarters. Q4 results are due 5 February.

Oscar Mayer's Sizzl dating app, launched in 2015, has no disclosed user metrics, so a retrospective fails B2B trade standards, the piece argues.

Ofcom has ordered dating platforms to introduce robust age verification by July 2025, with fines of up to 10% of global turnover for non-compliance.

UK dating startups are chasing Tinder fatigue, but break-even is put at £80-120M in acquisition costs against seed rounds of £500K-2M.

Australia's voluntary dating app code carries no fines, but an eSafety Commissioner review due early 2026 will decide if penalties follow.

Mozilla found 22 of 25 dating apps failed its privacy standards, including nine run by Match Group and three by Bumble. Only Lex passed.