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    Japan's Dating Subsidy: A Government-Curated Market Experiment

    Japan's Dating Subsidy: A Government-Curated Market Experiment

    Kochi Prefecture is offering residents aged 20 to 39 up to 20,000 yen (£93) annually to use state-approved matchmaking p…

    Wednesday 22nd April (1 day ago) · 1 min readRead →
    Regulatory Monitor
    OkCupid's AI Data Deal: A Lesson in Privacy Oversight

    OkCupid's AI Data Deal: A Lesson in Privacy Oversight

    OkCupid transferred 3 million user photos to AI firm Clarifai in 2014 without consent or written agreement The transfer …

    Wednesday 22nd April (1 day ago) · 1 min readRead →
    Regulatory Monitor
    California's SB 598: The End of Anonymity for Dating Apps?

    California's SB 598: The End of Anonymity for Dating Apps?

    California's SB 598 would require dating platforms to conduct criminal background checks on all users and flag profiles …

    Tuesday 21st April (2 days ago) · 1 min readRead →
    Financial & Investor
    Match Group's $9B Model: Built on Psychological Exploitation?

    Match Group's $9B Model: Built on Psychological Exploitation?

    Match Group has built a $9 billion business on dating apps that psychiatrist Amir Levine argues exploit neurological thr…

    Tuesday 21st April (2 days ago) · 1 min readRead →
    Data & Analytics
    QuackQuack's Survey Signals a Shift: Are Performative Romances Losing Ground?

    QuackQuack's Survey Signals a Shift: Are Performative Romances Losing Ground?

    QuackQuack surveyed 8,786 users aged 22–35 across metropolitan India between late 2024 and early 2025 68% of respondents…

    Tuesday 21st April (2 days ago) · 1 min readRead →
    Technology & AI Lab
    Tinder's Iris Scan: The Biometric Arms Race in Dating

    Tinder's Iris Scan: The Biometric Arms Race in Dating

    Tinder will integrate Sam Altman's World iris-scanning verification system to combat AI-enabled fraud projected to reach…

    Monday 20th April (3 days ago) · 1 min readRead →
    Financial & Investor
    Tinder's Gender Imbalance: Rascoff's Uphill Battle to Stop the Bleed

    Tinder's Gender Imbalance: Rascoff's Uphill Battle to Stop the Bleed

    Tinder's user base has collapsed from 65.4 million in 2021 to 50.5 million today—a 23% decline Men now represent roughly…

    Monday 20th April (3 days ago) · 1 min readRead →
    Community & Directory
    Grindr's Chemsex Initiative: Community Health or Brand Play?

    Grindr's Chemsex Initiative: Community Health or Brand Play?

    19% of LGBTQ+ people have lost someone to drug-related death, according to Grindr-commissioned research 28% report havin…

    Friday 17th April (6 days ago) · 1 min readRead →
    Data & Analytics
    Matchmaking Costs Surge 26% as Dating Apps Face User Exodus

    Matchmaking Costs Surge 26% as Dating Apps Face User Exodus

    Average cost of personal matchmaking services in the US jumped 26% year-over-year to January 2026 Dating app usage decli…

    Friday 17th April (6 days ago) · 1 min readRead →
    Regulatory Monitor
    India's KYC Mandate: The End of Anonymous Dating?

    India's KYC Mandate: The End of Anonymous Dating?

    India's Joint Committee on the Data Protection Bill has recommended mandatory KYC identity verification for all users of…

    Friday 17th April (6 days ago) · 1 min readRead →
    Technology & AI Lab
    Tinder's 'Vibe' AI: A 76% Accuracy That's 24% Opaque

    Tinder's 'Vibe' AI: A 76% Accuracy That's 24% Opaque

    Tinder's upgraded Smart Photos feature uses vision-language models to evaluate photo 'vibe', increasing prediction accur…

    Thursday 16th April · 1 min readRead →
    Data & Analytics
    Swipe Culture's Paradox: Engagement Metrics Undermine Relationship Goals

    Swipe Culture's Paradox: Engagement Metrics Undermine Relationship Goals

    Three studies in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships found sexualised dating profile imagery consistently r…

    Thursday 16th April · 1 min readRead →