Market numbers, surveys, app rankings and research on the dating industry.
A Harris Poll survey for World says 74% of US online daters have suspected a match was not real. It polled 892 single adults, 649 of them app users.
A Match Group survey of 3,000 UK singles, reported by the Guardian, finds 39% have used AI in dating, while Yoel Roth rejects bot-to-bot dating.
Blitt, Blind's office-worker dating app, says six photos drew about seven times the interest of one among male Samsung staff, in data on 300,000 users.
Bloomberg reports 34% of US dating app users aged 16 to 28 are single and dating, up from 23% last year, while under-30s stay wary of AI-infused apps.
Barclays-commissioned Opinium research finds 48% of UK daters report rising costs and dating app spend up 51.1%, to £7.10 a month among single daters.
Mozet says Japanese female sign-ups on Korean app Jung-o-ui Date hit 47,800 by September 2026, about 4.6 times December 2024's 10,300, per Seoul Economic Daily.
AI dating service Ditto grew from 42,000 sign-ups in February to 200,000 across 20-25 US campuses, and has raised $10.8 million in total.
Tinder and Hinge rank seventh and ninth among non-game apps on Google Play in the UK, according to AppBrain data, despite Match's engagement challenges.
A six-week Carnegie Mellon and Cornell trial found AI companions cut real-world dating time among single men who feel less loved, a risk for dating apps.
Facebook Dating ranked first in 22 of 25 use-case scenarios in Morning Consult research, ahead of Tinder, Hinge and Bumble. The service is free.
Hily survey of 5,400 US daters: 44% of Gen Z women and 39% of millennial women see free dates as low interest, as millennial dates cost $252.
Match's Singles in America study says 72% of US singles are open to dating, but only 16% are actively seeking a committed relationship.
45% of Ashley Madison's female members say they reached their sexual peak at age 40 or older, according to a survey of 885 members.
A 2012 psychological review found dating apps expand social circles well but show weak evidence that compatibility algorithms predict lasting relationships.
QuackQuack survey of 11,738 Indian daters finds 40% in Tier 1 cities rejected matches over emotional expectations, then regretted it.
One in five US employees has used LinkedIn to vet a dating app match, according to a Zety survey of 1,023 US employees.
Rebounce, QuackQuack's app for divorced, separated and widowed singles in India, has 700,000 profiles since launch, says CEO Ravi Mittal.
A YouGov survey finds 21% of partnered Britons met digitally: 16% via dating apps and 5% via browser-based sites.
Dateability says its users have reached 65,000, nearly double January's 33,000, and it has launched a browser version of its app for disabled daters.
Eventbrite data shows singles trivia socials up 403% year-over-year, as AppsFlyer says 69% of dating apps downloaded in November 2024 were deleted.
Over a third of British adults are kissing less than five years ago, a survey finds, raising questions about dating apps' engagement-led business models.
More than 45% of respondents in Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bangalore reported "dial-toning", says QuackQuack's survey of Indian dating app users.
Dating apps are linked to smaller partner age gaps: singles who met online had 37.4% lower odds of a gap of six years or more, a new study finds.
Happn survey of 600 Dutch users: 63% would pause dating apps while travelling if seeing someone, and 47% say a trip hastens exclusivity talks.
A Tawkify survey of 1,009 people finds 39% of partnered Americans discovered misaligned relationship goals, a possible churn driver for dating apps.
26.6% of American singles find someone more attractive if they believe they could win a fight, according to a PokerTube survey of 2,000 US adults.
Academic research on "relation-shopping" finds dating app users act like consumers, which the story says suits engagement-led business models.
"Gender gating" on an Indian matrimonial platform raised match efficacy by 72% overall, according to researchers, by showing women's profiles to fewer men.
A study of 1.1 million US student survey responses found Tinder's 2013 campus launch raised sexual partners among Greek-affiliated students, not relationships.
Japanese singles are moving from dating apps to marriage agencies charging ¥300,000 to ¥600,000, driven by "taipa" (time performance), agencies say.
One in four Americans have encountered fake profiles or AI bots on dating apps, according to McAfee, pressuring Match Group, Bumble and Grindr.
QuackQuack's survey of 10,384 Indian daters found 55% now scrutinise how matches discuss past relationships, as polished charm breeds distrust.
Virgin Media O2 data shows dating app traffic jumped 116% at half-time in England's 2026 World Cup games, with hydration breaks also lifting use.
QuackQuack survey: over 55% of Indian Gen Z daters aged 22-27 value how partners handled past relationships over their number of partners.
One in five U.S. workers uses LinkedIn to vet romantic prospects, a survey says, and nearly half rate its profiles more credible than dating apps.
Tinder disclosed a 15% jump in total users and roughly 25% more swipes across 11 U.S. World Cup host cities in the tournament's opening weeks.
Gleeden-Ipsos survey: 62% of Visakhapatnam respondents are willing to use AI for sexual health information, against 77% in Bengaluru and 68% nationally.
Only 15% of single adults use dating apps at least monthly and 70% of singles refuse to use them, according to a Marquette Law School Poll of US adults.
DatingSiteSpot says the average dating app user spends 310 hours annually, and improved profile photos lifted match rates from 25% to 43%.
South Korea's online dating market is projected to grow 7.5% a year through 2035 while its marriage rate falls, a warning for global operators.
Known, the swipeless dating app, is expanding from San Francisco to San Diego in July, its first test outside the Bay Area.
Tinder reports a 47% surge in international user activity across World Cup host cities compared with 2025, with Monterrey up 81% on one match day.
Men filed 85% of dating app complaints in Portugal in the first half of 2026, per Portal da Queixa, up from a roughly even split since 2019.
Howdy, a rural dating app, reached 1,800 New Zealand downloads within weeks of launch, per the NZ Herald. Its Australian base is over 30,000.
Tawkify survey of 911 partnered Americans finds 44% schedule sex, a possible retention opening for dating platforms.
Dua, an Albanian diaspora dating app launched in 2020, has 1.1 million registered users, but its revenue and active user numbers are undisclosed.
Hinge data shows book mentions on dating profiles rose 29% over the past year, and 41% among women, 12 percentage points above the overall user base.
Hinge ranks first in 5W Public Relations' Dating App AI Visibility Index 2026, ahead of Tinder, Match.com, Bumble and The League, across over 50 queries.
Ashley Madison says India rose from eighth to third globally for sign-ups, with Kanchipuram first nationally per capita in its May 2026 data.
Three Day Rule reports single mothers are now 21.5% of members, up from 19.8% a year earlier, a 1.7 percentage point rise.
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