Match Group CTO Will Wu is leaving at the end of May, the fourth senior executive exit in approximately 18 months, including the CEO.
Gleeden says 40% of its married users in India have emotionally intimate online relationships with no physical contact, according to its own data.
Dating safety app Tea has over 500,000 users and $1.6M in annual recurring revenue, according to the company, by offering background checks to women.
Bumble's Q1 revenue fell 7% year-on-year to $247.1M, yet its shares rose 7% as average revenue per paying user rose to $27.86.
Sex-positive dating app BeeDee has acquired UK-based rival Meet Kinksters and launched the combined platform on Apple's App Store for the first time.
The Lox Club, a dating app for Jewish and "Jew-ish" singles, launches in London on 30 January after four years of US operations, the company says.
SlideIn, a new voice-based dating app from Connor Rose, matches users with AI from one recorded answer and launches with a 100-person waitlist.
Match Group has joined Stop Scams UK, linking Tinder, Hinge and Plenty of Fish to a shared fraud network with banks, Meta and BT.
Married users are a significant, unacknowledged segment for India's dating apps, which Research and Markets expects to reach $450M in revenue by 2027.
Raw Dating exposed data on over 500,000 users through an unsecured API and never implemented its advertised encryption, then closed in January 2025.
GDI's North America dating conference in New York on 19 March 2026 has brand tickets at £249 early bird and fixed £999 vendor tickets.
Grindr is limiting its AI conversation summary feature to 25% of Unlimited subscribers, about 2.5% of its total subscribers, after halving AI costs.
About 30% of Chinese singles have used livestream matchmaking, according to iiMedia Research, as hosts on Douyin and WeChat draw public audiences.
Zepeel has relaunched after a decade, using facial recognition AI to block edited photos, raising privacy and regulatory questions for dating operators.
Feeld won a Webby Award for a celibacy profile tag it says launched within five days of Bumble's ad campaign that mocked celibacy.
QuackQuack says toxic dating trends have declined by 30% in India, based on a survey of 10,000 users that discloses no methodology or baselines.
Match Group is relaunching Pairs in South Korea, where marriages have fallen 40% since 2014, while its Asia revenue fell 6% in Q4 2024.
Sitch, a New York dating startup, raised $2M in pre-seed funding led by a16z's Speedrun and refunds users who are ghosted after paid matches.
Bumble-commissioned polling says 64% of Australian daters think dating across political divides is impossible, as it launches an election campaign.
Self Financial survey: 46.2% of coupled US adults would consider leaving their partner if money weren't a constraint, and 86% have argued about money.
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.
Tinder's US market share has fallen to 25%, just ahead of Bumble at 24%, according to Sensor Tower. Its global paying subscribers fell 15% since Q3 2022.
79% of Gen Z dating app users report 'dating app fatigue', according to Forbes, a direct revenue threat for Tinder and Match Group.
Match Group is spending £1 million on a Hinge fund for London meetups. The US version subsidised 3,500 events attended by 125,000 people.
Whitney Wolfe Herd has returned as Bumble CEO after 14 months, replacing Lidiane Jones, with the share price down 91% from its 2021 peak.
Quickmeets, a Penn graduate's dating app, uses AI to match users with lookalikes of uploaded celebrity photos at seven US universities.
A Hily survey of 3,700 users says 52% of Gen Z and millennials have walked away from dates because a match looked different from their photos.
Grindr has launched Right Now, a real-time feed tab alongside its grid, in 15 major cities including London, New York and Paris.
Grindr launched an optional in-app camera, Taken on Grindr, that timestamps and watermarks photos to show recency but does not verify identity.
Lunch Actually has acquired dating app Paktor, forming a hybrid matchmaking and app business across six Asian markets.
A Journal of Interpersonal Violence study of 5,000 men found child sex offenders are significantly more likely to use dating apps.
eHarmony says Imperial College research links dating app swiping to hormonal changes like gambling addiction, but the sample size is undisclosed.
Grindr has launched 'Between the Cheeks', an anal health and colorectal cancer screening hub, with Preparation H and the National LGBT Cancer Network.
Gleeden says 66% of its female users in India chat emotionally rather than sexually, a self-reported claim with no disclosed methodology.
The Lox Club, a members-only Jewish dating app, launches in London next week, its first international expansion since its US launch four years ago.
Washington's House Bill 1870 would tax dating app users $1 a month, aimed at platforms with over 500,000 accounts, to fund domestic violence programmes.
Match Group named Spencer Rascoff CEO, its fourth in six years, as Bumble brought back founder Whitney Wolfe Herd after 24 months under Lidiane Jones.
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.
Tinder is running ExCycle, a two-day New York pop-up that upcycles clothes from past relationships, as it tests post-breakup retention.
POPCORN, a rebranding pseudonymous sex-dating platform, has launched an English and Spanish survey on women's dating app preferences.
A QuackQuack survey of 9,600 users finds 60% of Indian women report pressure to commit quickly, versus 33% of men.
Dating apps, mainly Grindr, distributed over 500,000 free HIV test kits via Building Healthy Online Communities between 2023 and early 2025.
Global Dating Insights opens early bird tickets for its 17 September London conference: £249 for dating platforms, £999 for vendors, until 30 May.
Match Group's annual report puts social ads at 67% of performance marketing spend, up from 54% in 2021, exposing dating apps to platform shifts.
Tinder has launched an AI voice game using OpenAI's GPT-4o that scores users on conversation skills in timed dating scenarios, with five plays a day.
Seven dating platforms including Match Group, Bumble and Grindr signed Australia's voluntary safety code, with first progress reports due 1 July.
Betterhalf.ai's 89% compatibility match between two MBA graduates reportedly failed within hours, raising questions about AI percentage scores.
Tribal, a dating app launching this month, blurs profile photos for 72 hours after matching, with users messaging based on a 44-question assessment.
Tinder has appointed OMD for EMEA media planning and strategy, with Cream retaining UK media buying. The piece argues the issue is brand meaning, not reach.
Social Discovery Group commits $20 million to a venture fund for AI dating tools and VR social platforms, taking minority stakes in startups.