Happn is running a voter turnout push in the Netherlands after its polling of 1,097 Dutch users found 38% may skip municipal elections.
Ross Williams, founder of collapsed white-label dating firm Venntro, has launched the Fortitude Foundation, a peer support network for failed founders.
Tinder will launch an Events tab in beta in late May or early June, letting members RSVP to in-person meetups organised by Tinder.
Bumble will trial removing swiping in select markets, replacing it with an AI assistant called Bee, with a global rollout set for spring 2026.
Yeet has left beta with Yeeta, an AI host that runs live group video sessions for up to six singles, and it has not disclosed retention data.
HubPeople has launched a tool that routes users to niche dating sites via a questionnaire. It claims to run 4,000+ white-label sites.
Bumble's Q4 revenue of $273M beat expectations by 1.3% while paying users fell 20.5% to 3.1M after it cut performance marketing by over 80%.
DateMyAge says over 50 per cent of online daters have encountered 'some form of risk', as it stresses member safety amid UK and EU regulation.
Bumble survey data says 25% of Gen Z singles prefer first dates under 30 minutes, and some book them back-to-back in a practice called stack dating.
Meta now charges advertisers 2-5% 'location fees' on campaigns in six countries, including the UK and France, raising user acquisition costs for dating apps.
13D Management sold its entire Match Group stake, 64,350 shares worth $4.69M, in Q4 2024, according to SEC filings.
Feeld says 42% of the general population engages in kink, based on a study of 6,000 respondents, and has launched a free tool called Reflections.
Dating app users swipe an average of 40 times per match and 61% want to quit over time spent, says a Tawkify survey of 1,000 American singles.
LegacyX has launched Vortex, a double-date app, in a market where the top five dating apps accounted for 87% of global installs in 2024.
Meetic will open its Speak Easy in-person singles events to non-subscribers from 2026, after a 70-person Paris event in October 2024.
At least ten countries have enacted or are reviewing under-16 social media bans, and dating apps may face age verification rules next.
Date Drop, a weekly email dating service, is expanding from Stanford to the University of Washington without disclosing user or retention data.
Translr has rewritten its matching algorithm to show shared interests before gender identity, to curb intrusive questions for trans users.
Tinder appointed VCCP Social Club to handle UK social media and influencer marketing after a competitive pitch, with a creator-first approach.
Match Group scrapped its COO role 12 months after creating it, and Hesam Hosseini, who led Tinder and Hinge, is leaving, a filing shows.
Crush, a new Luxembourg dating platform, vets every member and matches people only at in-person events, with no online browsing.
Steven Bartlett invested £150,000 for 30% of hati, a UK dating app built on five-minute phone calls, which had £48 of revenue when it pitched.
Match Group's Tinder will pay $60.5M to settle a class action over charging subscribers over 30 more than younger users for the same features.
Match Group will host SPARKS 2025, its first standalone product event, on 12 March 2025, with Tinder's roadmap the sole focus.
60% of Indian running club participants cite meeting people as their main motivation, a sign offline groups may compete with dating apps in India.
Rodeo, founded by former Hinge executives, raised $8.5M in seed funding led by Coefficient Capital for an app that turns social posts into friend plans.
An Observatory for Sexuality study finds 93% of Portuguese dating app users admit to ghosting, and 57% of women cite safety as a major concern.
55% of UK singles aged 18-26 have left dating apps for in-person meetings over AI deepfake fears, according to research commissioned by Barclays.
Nearly half of partnered urban Indians have engaged sexually with AI instead of their partner, a Gleeden-commissioned survey of 1,500 people finds.
Malaysia's MCMC has blocked the Grindr and Blued websites, but has not said if the apps are still available on iOS and Android app stores.
Bumble faces a Texas class action over an alleged ShinyHunters ransomware attack exposing over 30 GB of user records. Bumble disputes the scope.
Green Flags charges men to contest or remove negative reviews on the women-only dating safety app Tea, according to 404 Media.
Grindr reported Q4 revenue of $126M, up 29% year-over-year, beating estimates by $4M, and launched Edge, a premium AI subscription tier.
Threads is testing clickable "DM me" links in the U.S. and Canada, a move the story says copies dating apps' low-friction private messaging.
Meta is suing scam operations in Brazil and Vietnam and sent cease-and-desist letters to eight former Business Partners over alleged fraud.
Bumble Inc launched AI photo and bio coaching tools and is testing Suggest a Date in Canada, as paying users fell to 4.4 million in Q3 2024.
Pinterest's Parenting Trend Report shows 'no phone summer' searches up 340%, which may push dating apps to add parenting-philosophy filters.
Malaysia's MCMC has blocked Grindr and Blued in the first named ban on Western dating apps in Southeast Asia, setting a regional precedent.
Snapchat will hold its first creator awards, The Snappys, on 21st March 2026, months after Instagram and TikTok, with 14 categories.
US romance scam losses reached $1.16B in the first nine months of 2025, per FTC data, with complaints up 22% year on year.
Ashley Madison says 57% of new 2025 sign-ups identified as single and is rebranding as a 'privacy-first dating service'.
Match Group is adding Roblox's former chief product officer Manuel Bronstein and The Knot Worldwide CEO Raina Moskowitz to its board.
Discord says behavioural signals classified 90% of its users as adults without ID checks, a challenge to dating apps that rely on ID uploads.
TikTok and Major League Baseball announced a global content partnership using TikTok's GamePlan tool for sports highlights and game recaps.
Two-thirds of Americans see financial literacy as attractive in a partner, rising to 76% of Gen Z, according to a survey commissioned by OKX.
X has appealed its €120M DSA fine over paid blue checkmarks and researcher access, a case that could shape verification rules for dating apps.
Meta is testing an Instagram redesign that opens to Reels by default, putting organic reach at risk for dating brands that still rely on static photo posts.
Psychologists link a reported rise in young women attending Medieval Times to dating app burnout, though the evidence is largely anecdotal.
QuackQuack's survey of 10,463 Indian daters says 57% prefer activity-based meetups over dinner dates, a shift that could pressure app conversion models.
TikTok follower growth for brands exceeded 200% year-on-year in 2025, while Instagram managed mid-single-digit median growth, according to Emplifi.