Kim Harris

Snapchat will hold its first creator awards, The Snappys, on 21st March 2026, months after Instagram and TikTok, with 14 categories.

Match Group is adding Roblox's former chief product officer Manuel Bronstein and The Knot Worldwide CEO Raina Moskowitz to its board.

TikTok and Major League Baseball announced a global content partnership using TikTok's GamePlan tool for sports highlights and game recaps.

X is rewriting its search code after AI bot traffic overwhelmed it, according to Nikita Bier. Dating apps face the same AI spam and fraud risks.

56% of U.S. singles view AI-generated or heavily edited dating profile photos as a red flag, according to eJuiceDB survey data.

Happn says January and summer now beat Valentine's Day for new registrations. Its survey found 39% see being single that day as 'not very serious'.

FlirtFinder, a pay-per-message dating platform with over 500,000 members, saw messaging fall 56% in early January before a payday rebound.

TikTok Shop's new AI seller tools let dating coaches and stylists run their own storefronts, which the story says threatens dating apps' commerce plans.

Arrows study of 1,000 American singles finds 30% have tried chore-based dates and 56% are open to them, with 78% citing economic accessibility.

FilipinaMeet, a web-only dating platform for the Philippines, says it has over 20,000 signups and puts identity verification ahead of fast growth.

Dog-focused dating app Nuzzl launches in Austin on 21 February with a brewery event at Central Machine Works, open to owners and enthusiasts.

Singles events are busy in Connecticut and New York as Match Group's paying subscribers fell 6% year-on-year in Q3 2024, pointing to app fatigue.

Happn is offering three Dutch singles up to €1,500 towards housing costs from 14 to 23 February in its "Single Support" campaign.

Meta's Threads launched Dear Algo on 11 February, letting users publicly request three-day feed changes in the US, UK, Australia and New Zealand.

Smitten, an Icelandic dating app, has launched a "Just break up" campaign in Sweden, but has disclosed no metrics to verify its claims.

Meta has relaunched animated Facebook profile pictures, generated by Meta AI from a static photo, raising trust questions for dating apps.

QuackQuack says 33% of Gen Z daters paused activity on Valentine's Day, in a survey of 10,853 active users in India.

Bluesky launched drafts in February 2026 and has 42 million sign-ups, but it has not disclosed monthly or daily active users.

Dating app RAW's Valentine's campaign in New York pairs adoption-style profile cards with hosted group events, and plans to expand beyond New York in 2026.

Snapchat's Super Bowl LX second-screen strategy offers dating apps lessons, as Match Group reported an 8% year-on-year drop in session times in Q4 2025.