Four niche dating apps launched in 2024, Hum, Cherry, Grazer and Lefty, are still operating, but face a user density test in 2025.
Bumble has named Salesforce veteran Michael Affronti Chief Product Officer as paying users fell from 1.7 million in Q1 2024 to 1.5 million in Q3.
Tinder, Hinge and Bumble reported Dating Sunday 2025 gains of 20%, 40% and 32%, but none disclosed year-over-year baseline data.
Tinder's European campaign promotes a creative partnership, techno duo Brutalismus 3000, over romance, while payers fell 8% to 9.6 million in Q3 2024.
Tinder has launched a global ad campaign to position itself for serious relationships, after Q3 2024 direct revenue fell 9% to $503M.
Tinder says swipes rise 20% on Dating Sunday, 5 January, but Match Group has disclosed no product plans after six quarters of Tinder revenue decline.
Hinge has launched "Crossed Paths", a global campaign with seven real couples, as Match Group's paying subscribers fell to 10.3 million in Q3 2024.
60% of Indian dating app users aged 20-26 pursue year-end matches because of family gathering pressure, a survey of 9,000 singles found.
Australian dating app users are using ChatGPT and RIZZ to write profiles, while Match Group and Bumble have no clear AI content policies.
Grindr closed at $16.75 this week after Goldman Sachs upgraded it to 'buy' with a $20 target, as investors favour niche dating apps over generalists.
Bumble is giving free ice cream in Singapore every weekend through December, tied to a new profile interest badge.
Match Group's BLK is swapping users' exes' hoodies for branded replacements, with originals allegedly going to Planet Aid.
QuackQuack says 28% of Indian dating app users use travel preferences as a primary compatibility filter, per a 10,000-user survey of its own users.
Asian-focused dating app KRUSH has raised seed funding from Mashup Ventures with fewer than 500 combined downloads in January 2025.
Feeld's 2023 revenue rose 95% to $41.4M, up from $21.2M, as longtime users raise concerns about 'vanilla' newcomers joining the kink and polyamory app.
Tinder built portal booths in Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh City for five-minute video chats, but shared no attendance or match metrics.
Hinge CEO Justin McLeod plans an AI dating coach he says beats meeting organically, and Hinge revenue rose 30% year-on-year in Q4 2024.
Tinder's survey says 45% of singles want a "Golden Retriever" partner, but the data is self-reported and may not reflect how users actually swipe.
Down Dating's team has launched Dapper, an AI tool that generates dating profile photos, raising verification questions for platforms.
From 4 March, Google will ban dating advertisers without certification from Search, Display and YouTube, putting smaller dating apps at risk.
Gaydar reported a 15% year-on-year revenue increase in late 2024 after adding in-person events with KK Homme, with profile views up 25%.
Meta's Facebook Dating has 21 million users, more than Hinge, and daily conversations among 18-29 year-olds rose 24 per cent.
Global Dating Insights and Social Discovery Insights are merging into three regional events for 2025 in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
Global Dating Insights has opened final ticket sales for its 5 December networking event at the Houses of Parliament, seven days before it takes place.
Bumble is losing its CFO and CMO and has hired Neil Shah, ex-Slack and Twitter, as chief business officer, with Q3 2024 paying users up just 3%.
MillionaireMatch says 70% of its users expect replies within two hours, but gave no methodology. Always-on norms may exclude shift workers.
Ofcom data shows Match Group and Bumble lost hundreds of thousands of UK users in a year. Industry sources point to Gen Z leaving swipe apps.
SeniorMatch has made live video verification with human review mandatory for all new members, aiming to catch AI-generated fake profiles.
Dinky One, a dating platform for men with smaller penises, has added AI to filter explicit photos after human moderators could not keep up.
Dateability, a bootstrapped dating app for disabled singles, has reached 25,000 users with zero marketing spend and expanded to the UK.
Don Jazzy announced dating app Bammby to 16.5 million Instagram followers on his 42nd birthday, entering a field where celebrity apps often fade.
Happn survey claims 15 per cent of Gen Z users admit to 'sledging', but it polled only 600 users from a single app.
Dutch banks say dating fraud victims lose an average of €25,000 per scam, and the NVB reports 'pig butchering' cases up 25% since 2022.
Dating apps' engagement metrics may hide stalled relationships, as a study finds users stuck in a "just talking" phase of messaging without meeting.
Greed Dating says it built AI cyberflashing detection in hours with open-source models and ChatGPT, but has disclosed no accuracy rates.
Kiseki says 95% of Japanese singles want to date foreigners, based on 230 respondents. Only 45% have dated internationally, which casts doubt on the claim.
Dating services are projected to reach £10.71 billion by 2030, but research flags matching algorithms struggling to track changing user preferences.
Match Group shares dropped 13% after a Q4 revenue forecast below expectations, as Tinder's paying users fall and Hinge's growth cannot yet fill the gap.
Match Group shares fell 13% after a Q4 revenue forecast of $865M-$875M missed expectations, as Tinder's paying subscribers decline and Hinge grows.
QuackQuack claims 60% of male users aged 20-35 prioritise mental health in relationships, but the 12,000-respondent survey was self-commissioned.
MillionaireMatch has launched Confidentiality Guard, an opt-in mutual NDA letting users take legal action over shared profile information.
Three Day Rule has been acquired by an unnamed private investment group, with Adam Cohen-Aslatei, who sold S'More to Tawkify in 2023, as CEO.
Tinder will donate AUD$1 per profile verification in Australia to Wesnet, capped at AUD$20,000, from 12 November to 6 December.
flutrr has launched an AI chatbot giving real-time chat prompts and sentiment analysis to users in India's tier II and III cities.
A University of Texas study of 122 students links dating app use to riskier sex, but cannot prove causation, and operators resist an educator role.
Facebook Dating grew 20% across North America in the past year, and Meta claims 24% in the U.S. and Canada, without disclosing user numbers.
Mumbai's 20 November dating conference lists no Match Group or Bumble executives. India's dating app market is estimated at $100M a year, per Tracxn.
Couple.com has launched a beta AI tool that scores romantic compatibility from facial and vocal cues in video speed-dates, without published evidence.
HubPeople has partnered with The Payments Group to accept cash for dating app subscriptions at 550,000 retail locations in 28 countries from Q2 2025.
Date Right, the conservative dating app, is moving to Android with 300,000 iOS downloads and 3.4 million TikTok followers, raising scale questions.