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Bumble CPO Michael Affronti has left after 12 months, the fifth C-suite departure since Whitney Wolfe Herd's March 2025 return as CEO.

HER has put sexually suggestive billboards in New York and Los Angeles under its 'Sapphic Restart' initiative, while claiming 15 million global users.

Dutch dating app Breeze has launched in the UK, restricting pre-date messaging and pushing users to meet in person, challenging Match Group and Bumble.

Hinge founder Justin McLeod is leaving to build Overtone, an AI-focused dating app backed by Match Group. COO Jackie Jantos becomes Hinge CEO.

QuackQuack has launched Rebounce, a dating app for divorced, separated and widowed users in India, with plans from free to ₹2,499/month ($30).

Brazilian non-monogamy dating app Ysos is expanding into six Latin American markets after 1.2 million registrations in Brazil.

Knot.dating is expanding to the US, UK, UAE, Singapore and Australia this month, after verifying 10,000 members in India since launching in 2023.

Tinder has launched 'Crush Feelings', a global campaign and Swipe Stories feature to reposition the app for Gen Z around emotional connection.

Pure's first US CTV campaign is programmatic only after Hulu, Netflix and other premium publishers rejected its ads.

Bumble launched a real-couples campaign with offline events in London, New York, Toronto, Sydney and Berlin, without sharing outcome data.

Jdate has added dating coaches and personalised human matchmaking as premium add-ons, with pricing undisclosed by parent Spark Networks SE.

Hulu's Swiped, a film on Bumble's founding, premieres on 7 September while Bumble app revenue sits flat at $208M for Q1 2025.

Hily is selling mystery donuts in Los Angeles to promote spontaneous dating, citing its own survey claiming 74% of young Americans would skip algorithms.

Aisle, backed by Info Edge India, offers verified women free premium features until 20th February while men still pay.

Single Riders is recruiting beta testers for a dating app that matches Disney fans in real-time at theme parks, ahead of a launch later this year.

Meet Kinksters closed its web platform 30 months after launch, after selling its mobile assets to rival BeeDee. Neither app is available on iOS.

Tinder named Mumbai agency Adtomica its India brand partnerships Agency on Record after a 150,000-voucher Blinkit campaign at 75% off Tinder Plus.

Bumble chief legal officer Elizabeth Monteleone is leaving after ten months, according to a regulatory filing, amid wider executive turnover.

Match Group is relaunching Pairs in South Korea with an AI matching system it calls Real Mind Matching, after withdrawing from the market in 2022.

Cerca, a dating app from three Duke students, matches only people with a mutual phone contact and has 10,000 to 12,000 users on US campuses.