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Leading LGBTQ+ dating platform. Fastest revenue growth among public dating companies.
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Malaysia Blocks Grindr and Blued. It's Political Theatre, Not Real Censorship.
Malaysia's MCMC has implemented domain-level blocks on Grindr and Blued websites, marking Southeast Asia's most direct LGBTQ+ platform censorship action this year The Asia-Pacific region accounts for …
Grindr Just Posted the Numbers Every Other Dating App Wishes It Had
Grindr reported Q4 revenue of $126M, up 29% year-over-year, beating analyst estimates by $4M The company announced a $400M share buyback expansion and guided full-year revenue above $528M New premium …
Malaysia Blocks Grindr and Blued. The Regulatory Risk GRND Investors Keep Ignoring.
Malaysia's MCMC has blocked Grindr and Blued, affecting a market of 33 million people in the most explicit state-level ban on mainstream LGBTQ+ dating platforms in Southeast Asia Section 377 of Malays…
X's AI Spam Crisis: A Warning Shot for Dating Platforms
X is rebuilding its search infrastructure from scratch after AI bot traffic overwhelmed legacy systems, according to Head of Product Nikita Bier Trust and safety professionals report AI-generated frau…
Thursday Claims a $50M Valuation. Three Years After It Promised to Prove the Model or Quit.
Thursday claims a $50M valuation, three years behind the 2021 public deadline set by co-founder George Rawlings The announcement comes months after reports that the once-a-week dating app faced potent…
Saudi Arabia Has 3.5 Million Dating App Downloads and Almost No One Talks About It.
Saudi Arabia's dating app market generated nearly $16M in revenue from 3.5 million downloads in the past year Approximately 67% of Saudi Arabia's 35 million population are under 35, creating a massive…
Swept Built an In-App Date Planner and Required Government ID. One of Those Is a Good Idea.
Swept dating app introduces in-app Date Planner tool allowing users to build, propose, and confirm date itineraries without leaving the platform Mandatory government ID verification for all visible pr…
Australia Banned Teens From Social Media. Snap Lost 3 Million Daily Users. Dating Apps Are Next.
Snapchat has shut down or restricted 415,000 Australian teen accounts since the under-16 social media ban took effect Snap disclosed a global loss of 3 million daily active users in Q4 2025, with Aust…
Snapchat Has More Paying Subscribers Than Tinder. Read That Again.
Snapchat+ has reached 25 million paying subscribers, driving Snap Inc.'s direct revenue to a $1 billion annual run rate The subscriber count exceeds Tinder's estimated 10-12 million paying users and r…
Valentine's Day Loses Its Edge: Dating Apps Face a New Reality
39% of Happn users consider being single on Valentine's Day 'not very serious', marking a shift away from romantic urgency January and summer now consistently outperform Valentine's Day for new regist…
Happn's 'Single Support' Campaign: Clever Positioning or Cynical Stunt?
Happn is offering three Dutch singles up to €1,500 towards housing costs between 14–23 February as part of its "Single Support" campaign A December survey of 1,158 happn users in the Netherlands found…
Singles Events Surge: A Symptom of App Fatigue, Not a Disruption
Match Group reported a 6% year-on-year decline in paying subscribers in Q3 2024, falling to 10.3 million users Bumble's revenue growth slowed to just 7% in Q3 2024, missing analyst expectations Single…
TikTok's Local Feed: A New Threat to Dating Apps' Discovery Ambitions
TikTok rolled out Local Feed to 170 million US users on 11th February, using GPS tracking to surface nearby venues and events 56% of US adults aged 18-29 use TikTok, with median session times exceedin…
Smitten's 'Break Up' Campaign: Bold Strategy or Desperation?
Smitten, an Icelandic dating app, launched a provocative campaign in Sweden with slogans like "Just break up" and "You deserve to be single" Match Group's paying subscriber base declined 6% year-on-ye…
Grindr's $499 Subscription: A Luxury Bet or Pricing Psychology Ploy?
Grindr is testing an AI-powered subscription tier priced up to $499 per month—ten times standard premium dating app costs The company reported 1.1 million paying subscribers in Q3 2024 with average re…
Meta's AI Profile Animations: A Solution in Search of a Problem?
Facebook retired video profiles in 2022 after adoption stalled; now relaunching with AI automation to remove creation friction New feature uses Meta AI to generate animated loops from static photos wi…
RAW's Valentine's Campaign Admits: The App Is the Obstacle
RAW's Valentine's Day campaign curates men into pet-adoption-style profile cards, funneling matches directly into hosted group dating events in New York Women browse and select; men apply to be featur…
Snapchat's Location Alerts: A New Norm or a Dating Liability?
Snapchat's Home Safe feature recorded over 1 million activations in six months since July 2024 launch This represents just 0.23% of Snapchat's 443 million daily active users Feature now allows automat…
Snapchat's Super Bowl Playbook: A Missed Opportunity for Dating Apps
Match Group reported an 8% year-on-year decline in average session times across its portfolio in Q4 2025 63% of UK singles cite 'too many features I don't use' as a reason for deleting dating apps, ac…
EU's TikTok Case Puts Dating Apps' Engagement Tactics on Notice
The European Commission accused TikTok on 6 February of breaching the Digital Services Act through infinite scroll and autoplay features that reduce user self-control Dating apps use functionally iden…
Breeze's Bolt Partnership: A Revenue Model or Liability Theater?
Breeze has partnered with Bolt to offer users 40% off their first trip to a date, alongside a nine-point safety guide 34% of Breeze users report safety concerns about first meetings, according to a co…
HubPeople's White-Label Move: Niche Apps Surrender Tech for Survival
HubPeople has migrated Say Allo and DiHola, two dating apps with 'hundreds of thousands' of users, onto its white-label Affinity platform The migration included user databases, media assets, mobile ap…
Three Day Rule's AI Pivot: From Bespoke Matchmaking to Algorithmic Sameness
Three Day Rule relaunched in 2025 as an AI-powered dating app after operating as a premium human-led matchmaking service charging thousands of dollars Users report receiving identical AI-generated ope…
Reddit's Reminder Ads: A Boon or Bane for Dating Apps' Notification Strategy?
Reddit has expanded beta access to Reminder Ads, allowing advertisers to send push notifications and inbox messages to users who opt in via embedded ad buttons Major dating subreddits command massive …
Instagram's Close Friends Exit: A Wake-Up Call for Dating Apps
Instagram is developing a feature allowing users to remove themselves from someone else's Close Friends list, the first such control since the feature launched in 2018 Snapchat already offers this cap…
Tinder's AI Pivot: A Desperate Move or a Strategic Shift?
Tinder reported a 9% decrease in monthly active users for Q4 2025 year-over-year New registrations fell 5% year-over-year in the same period Match Group's market cap stands at $4.9B as it tests AI-dri…
TikTok's User Exodus: A Warning Shot for Dating Apps' Trust Issues
TikTok's U.S. daily active users rebounded to above 90 million after dropping to 86–88 million in late January following privacy concerns and technical outages The platform has declined from a peak of…
Grindr's Olympic Safety Protocol: A Band-Aid on a Global Problem
Grindr will disable location-based features inside Olympic Village boundaries during Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Games from 6 to 22 February This marks the third consecutive Olympics where Grindr has d…
UpScrolled's 16x Growth: A Governance Lesson for Dating Apps
UpScrolled grew from 150,000 to 2.5 million users in four weeks following TikTok's January restructuring Skylight, built on the AT Protocol, crossed 380,000 users in January during the same period UpS…
Australia's Age Ban: Snapchat's 415,000 Blocks Reveal a Displacement Dilemma
Meta blocked 544,000 Australian youth accounts and Snapchat blocked 415,000 since the under-16 social media ban took effect—nearly one million accounts combined The combined blocks represent roughly a…
TikTok's Vegas Bet: Can LIVE Finally Crack the Western Market?
TikTok Live Fest scheduled for 12 February 2026 at Planet Hollywood, Las Vegas, headlined by Demi Lovato and hosted by Emmy winner Keke Palmer Douyin's live commerce generated $272 billion in gross me…
Bluesky's Moderation Success: A Mirage for Dating Apps?
Bluesky removed 2.08 million accounts in 2025 whilst growing to 41.41 million users User-submitted reports per 1,000 monthly active users dropped 50.9% from January to December 2025 Reply-filtering sy…
Norton's AI Dating Paradox: Users Trust Bots Over Humans
48% of current online daters in New Zealand would consider a romantic relationship with an AI system 65% of daters would be bothered if a human match used AI tools for photos, profiles, or chat Norton…