Match Group announced $150M in AI investment in November 2024 as matchmakers and coaches urge dating apps to adopt human services instead.
Seattle-based dating app Cheers has launched with a feature that lets friends swipe and arrange introductions for users, says founder Sahil Ahuja.
Hinge is building a tool to move long chats towards dates, CEO Justin McLeod told NPR. He says Your Turn Limits raised match-to-date conversion by 20%.
Bumble's Q3 2024 revenue was $273.6M, down 0.7% year-over-year, its first fall since going public, despite 4.3 million subscribers.
A 2019 Plenty of Fish study found 9% of users dated for social status and 30% felt throned, as Match Group and Bumble add status-signalling features.
Global Dating Insights will hold its first Asia-Pacific conference in Mumbai this November, with Flutrr, Betterhalf and Sirf among the speakers.
Bumble rewrote its privacy policy in October after pressure from Mozilla but refused to introduce opt-in consent for third-party data sharing.
Bindr, an LGBTQ dating app, has raised $135,000 from two startup competitions, $75,000 from UpPrize and $60,000 from StartupFest.
Tinder Australia has launched 'It Starts With a Swipe', a TikTok creator campaign that portrays offline romance as awkward, with no spend disclosed.
University of New Mexico research finds dating app couples cross more religious and educational lines but show stronger same-race preferences.
QuackQuack reported a 25% rise in chat activity and 40% more local matches in India's October festive season, in a survey of 11,000 users.
Hatched has cut its dating app quiz from 50 questions to five and completed its US nationwide rollout, two years after its 2023 launch.
RAW's 'Ghosting Killer' blocks new chats until users reply to existing ones, and the app says its ghosting rate is between 1% and 5%.
Grindr is considering extending its 'Daddy Lessons' queer history video series beyond this month, but has shared no performance metrics.
Tinder paying users fell 8% year-on-year, Match Group reported, while dating app HER grew its user base 15% in 2024 to 13 million members.
Research says 84% of Gen Z have embraced voice notes, a UX challenge for dating apps that risk losing chats to WhatsApp and Instagram.
Dating app operators are set to spend $252M on ads in 2024, up 15%, as Bumble's $44M through July passes Tinder's $41M, per Pathmatics.
Cheers, a new invite-only dating app from ex-Instagram engineer Sahil Ahuja, lets friends swipe for users and caps matches at three per day.
HER is offering three couples up to $7,500 each in moving costs for its 'U-Haul Fall' campaign, open to couples together six months or less.
Dating app DOWN claims 15 million registered users and 400% revenue growth in 2024 with near-zero ad spend, mostly via word of mouth.
Greed Dating's founder built an Android app in eight days using ChatGPT, according to a company statement. The app serves 600,000 active users.
HER, the dating app for LGBTQ+ women and non-binary people, says it is signing 30,000 new users per week and has 1.5 million monthly active users.
Hinge's survey of 60,000 users found 75% of daters with ADHD report feeling misunderstood on dating apps, citing response time anxiety and small talk.
Muzz says it has facilitated 15,000 marriages among 1.2 million Pakistani users, using profile blurring and a chaperone mode built for family involvement.
Happn plans to cap AI-curated daily matches at 10 profiles, according to CEO Karima Ben Abdelmalek, as dating apps turn to AI to fight user burnout.
Match Group and Bumble offer no income fields, though 71% of US adults now rate a steady job as very important in a partner, up from 63% a decade ago.
Greenlight, a dating app with no profiles or messaging, launches a Hoboken, New Jersey beta by end of November, using live venue check-ins on a map.
23% of iPhone users would reject an Android-using partner, according to an All About Cookies survey of 1,000 American adults.
Feeld is launching a biannual print magazine on sexuality and relationships, as the dating app reports 30% year-on-year growth.
Online platforms now account for 60% of couples meeting their spouses, yet users are dissatisfied and operators face high churn.
FROME, Lox Club and Summer, three LA dating startups, limit choice through conversation caps, events and applications, but none has disclosed revenue.
Wealth-focused dating apps have raised over $50M since 2020, according to Bloomberg, and 31% of US singles would consider filtering by credit score, says Match.
GLAAD and eharmony research finds 53% of LGBTQ+ respondents feel neglected by dating platforms. Niche operators are exploiting the gap.
Laguna, a new dating app, says three questions can produce one AI-generated match per day, but it has not disclosed how its algorithm works.
Yoke, a dating platform for entrepreneurs and founders, launches on 29 October. The company has not disclosed its vetting process.
Research cited by matchmaker Tina Wilson says 77% of singles feel more nervous the longer online chats go without a date, a flaw called carouselling.
Victoria Milan faces an Illinois class action alleging its selfie verification breaches the state's biometric privacy law (BIPA).
Queensland University of Technology eye-tracking research finds men and women assess income within the first 10 seconds of viewing a dating profile.
Greed Dating combines 16 niche dating categories in one app and claims 622,770 accounts, with fewer than one message per account a month.
Grindr plans an AI dating assistant by 2027 that will chat with other users' AI agents before any human contact, says CEO George Arison.
Match Group, Bumble and Grindr signed an Australian voluntary code requiring harm detection and public safety ratings by April 2025, or face legislation.
Australia's voluntary dating app safety code becomes mandatory in 2026 if industry adoption and compliance fall short of government expectations.
Match Group and Bumble are expanding friend-finding features, which the analysis calls churn mitigation as Tinder average subscribers fell 8%.
Bumble faces a securities fraud suit alleging it misled investors on Premium Plus and its redesign, covering 10 February to 6 August 2024.
Plenty of Fish coined eleven dating terms for 2025 from a survey of 5,800 US members, including 'Smutten', reported by 40% of women surveyed.
Feeld faces user complaints that growth has diluted its polyamory and kink community, raising questions about whether niche dating apps can scale.
Tinder is pushing its Passport feature as a travel tool with a Solo Traveler's Guide, as Match says Tinder's paying users declined year-over-year.
Just 26% of online dating users are now aged 18-29, down from 48% in 2013, which the analysis says challenges Match Group and Bumble.
Ashley Madison is Texas's most-searched and most-recommended dating platform, the only US state where it leads, per Google and survey data.
Hily's survey of 2,500 of its own Gen Z users found 90% value authenticity, but most struggle to show their real selves on dating apps.