Hayley Birkin

Feeld, the London-based dating app, is using a print magazine and members-only events to keep users engaged, after reporting 107% user growth.

Tinder, Hinge and Bumble reported Dating Sunday 2025 gains of 20%, 40% and 32%, but none disclosed year-over-year baseline data.

Tinder says swipes rise 20% on Dating Sunday, 5 January, but Match Group has disclosed no product plans after six quarters of Tinder revenue decline.

Hinge has launched "Crossed Paths", a global campaign with seven real couples, as Match Group's paying subscribers fell to 10.3 million in Q3 2024.

Grindr closed at $16.75 this week after Goldman Sachs upgraded it to 'buy' with a $20 target, as investors favour niche dating apps over generalists.

Australian dating app users are using ChatGPT and RIZZ to write profiles, while Match Group and Bumble have no clear AI content policies.

Asian-focused dating app KRUSH has raised seed funding from Mashup Ventures with fewer than 500 combined downloads in January 2025.

From 4 March, Google will ban dating advertisers without certification from Search, Display and YouTube, putting smaller dating apps at risk.

Global Dating Insights and Social Discovery Insights are merging into three regional events for 2025 in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Meta's Facebook Dating has 21 million users, more than Hinge, and daily conversations among 18-29 year-olds rose 24 per cent.

Global Dating Insights has opened final ticket sales for its 5 December networking event at the Houses of Parliament, seven days before it takes place.

Bumble is losing its CFO and CMO and has hired Neil Shah, ex-Slack and Twitter, as chief business officer, with Q3 2024 paying users up just 3%.

SeniorMatch has made live video verification with human review mandatory for all new members, aiming to catch AI-generated fake profiles.

Dateability, a bootstrapped dating app for disabled singles, has reached 25,000 users with zero marketing spend and expanded to the UK.

Dutch banks say dating fraud victims lose an average of €25,000 per scam, and the NVB reports 'pig butchering' cases up 25% since 2022.

Greed Dating says it built AI cyberflashing detection in hours with open-source models and ChatGPT, but has disclosed no accuracy rates.

Match Group shares dropped 13% after a Q4 revenue forecast below expectations, as Tinder's paying users fall and Hinge's growth cannot yet fill the gap.

Match Group shares fell 13% after a Q4 revenue forecast of $865M-$875M missed expectations, as Tinder's paying subscribers decline and Hinge grows.

MillionaireMatch has launched Confidentiality Guard, an opt-in mutual NDA letting users take legal action over shared profile information.

Three Day Rule has been acquired by an unnamed private investment group, with Adam Cohen-Aslatei, who sold S'More to Tawkify in 2023, as CEO.