Former F1 driver Alex Lynn has invested £100,000 in Pacer, a London sports matching app that says it is "not a dating app" but allows for romance.
Match Group hosts an investor session on 3 September on Tinder's product changes over the past 12 to 18 months, covering culture and testing cadence.
Rebounce, QuackQuack's app for divorced, separated and widowed singles in India, has 700,000 profiles since launch, says CEO Ravi Mittal.
A YouGov survey finds 21% of partnered Britons met digitally: 16% via dating apps and 5% via browser-based sites.
Dateability says its users have reached 65,000, nearly double January's 33,000, and it has launched a browser version of its app for disabled daters.
Appflame, which runs Taimi and Hily, targets 2 million DAUs for IPO readiness, up from approximately 350,000 DAUs, without venture capital.
Derek Chadwick has left gay dating app Goose less than eight weeks after launch, with no board seat, advisory role or equity retained.
QuackQuack's study of 11,500 Indian users aged 18 to 35 found 48% of metro and suburban daters edit messages out of empathy, not performance anxiety.
Eventbrite data shows singles trivia socials up 403% year-over-year, as AppsFlyer says 69% of dating apps downloaded in November 2024 were deleted.
Over a third of British adults are kissing less than five years ago, a survey finds, raising questions about dating apps' engagement-led business models.
Wedknott has acquired Aurezia Events to move from matchmaking into wedding planning in India's $130 billion wedding market. No terms were disclosed.
Chinese prosecutors handled cases involving 1,546 individuals accused of matchmaking fraud between January 2024 and March 2025, the BBC reports.
More than 45% of respondents in Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bangalore reported "dial-toning", says QuackQuack's survey of Indian dating app users.
Tinder released season two of reality series Double Date Island on 13 August, with no disclosed season one viewership or feature adoption data.
Match Group has provisioned $9.1 million for an Irish GDPR fine over Tinder data requests, 85% below its $60 million maximum exposure.
Grindr says AI lifted engineering output 2.5-3.5x since mid-2024 with flat headcount, worth about $60 million a year, but it gave no quality metrics.
Matrimony.com's net profit rose 127.5% year-on-year to ₹19.1 crore (£1.4M) in Q1 fiscal 2027, as average transaction value grew 4.2%.
Mattr's sold-out 'Pitch My Queer Bestie' event in Edinburgh on 31 July, held with Diageo, had friends pitch single mates in five slides.
Bumble has ended its women-message-first rule after twelve years and extended its messaging window from 24 to 72 hours, citing Canadian testing.
Coffee Meets Bagel says 81% of active users completed selfie verification within three months, and 80% of Singapore members use Singpass.
Match Group's Hinge has launched audiobooks of real couples' origin stories on Spotify and Libby, with no data linking them to retention.
Dating apps are linked to smaller partner age gaps: singles who met online had 37.4% lower odds of a gap of six years or more, a new study finds.
Lee Mullen's TUGG, a County Tyrone AI dating app, is still a prototype with no beta testing or published user data, despite its compatibility claims.
Grindr's Q2 2026 revenue rose 33% to $138.1M and net income reached $17.7M, but its AI product Edge is still in limited testing.
Tinder is testing a seven-day location-based Missed Connections feature in Canada and Australia. Match Group gave no data retention details.
Bumble is developing a new model beyond the swipe and backing Plans, after adding 200,000 paying users in Q2 2026, down from 400,000.
Hinge's Justin McLeod has raised $18M for an AI matchmaking startup, while Match Group research says nearly half of US singles view AI in dating negatively.
Tinder has partnered with events firm We Met In Real Life, starting with a New York event on Monday, according to founder Kacie Burns.
Michael Kaye is leaving Match Group after seven years leading communications, including OkCupid, as dating apps move from traditional PR to creators.
MaC Venture Capital's Marlon Nichols says most loneliness startups lack venture scale, though at least 18 have raised funding, per Business Insider.
Happn survey of 600 Dutch users: 63% would pause dating apps while travelling if seeing someone, and 47% say a trip hastens exclusivity talks.
Eight Riga bars are testing Meet Me at The Bar, a Latvian dating app that shows who is at each venue in real time and bypasses messaging.
New York's SAFE for Kids Act takes effect 25 January 2027 and can apply to dating apps with algorithmic feeds, whatever they call themselves.
IMARC Group forecasts UK dating industry revenue rising from $398M in 2025 to $749M by 2034, led by spend per user, with premium at over 60% of revenue.
A Tawkify survey of 1,009 people finds 39% of partnered Americans discovered misaligned relationship goals, a possible churn driver for dating apps.
26.6% of American singles find someone more attractive if they believe they could win a fight, according to a PokerTube survey of 2,000 US adults.
So Syncd co-founder Jessica Alderson has resigned as ODDA Chair after about three years, with no successor named and no public reason given.
Academic research on "relation-shopping" finds dating app users act like consumers, which the story says suits engagement-led business models.
Match Group's Q2 earnings are due this week, with Tinder revenue forecast at approximately $446M against $207M for Hinge, per Barron's.
Breeze has launched Group Dates nationwide after 500 London pilot events with 3,500 participants. Members meet six to 10 other singles at partner venues.
Tokyo's state-run dating app TOKYO Enmusubi reports 1.7% of verified users married within 21 months, a metric commercial apps do not publish.
Seattle matchmakers charge $7,500 to $50,000 per client, and Three Day Rule says its Seattle client base more than tripled last year.
"Gender gating" on an Indian matrimonial platform raised match efficacy by 72% overall, according to researchers, by showing women's profiles to fewer men.
A study of 1.1 million US student survey responses found Tinder's 2013 campus launch raised sexual partners among Greek-affiliated students, not relationships.
Tinder paused its AI Photo Enhance tool after users said it changed teeth and mouth shapes without explicit consent. Tinder says few users were affected.
Former Venntro chief Ross Williams has published contracts, emails and legal letters answering Michael O'Sullivan's public claims about a 14.5 million member database.
Tinder's 'Dump Traditional Dating' campaign promotes its Double Date feature to Gen Z, as Match Group disclosed an 8% year-on-year subscriber decline.
Hinge CEO Jackie Jantos told the BBC that Gen Z users lean on its AI prompt tools because they 'lack the confidence' to start conversations.
France has passed a law requiring every social media user to verify their identity via CNIL-approved tools, a move that could affect dating apps.
A technical review finds HubPeople's dating infrastructure powers a network of adult and hookup sites absent from the company's corporate brand showcase.