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20 articlesBumble Is Killing the Swipe. Here Is What It Is Betting On Instead.
Bumble will trial the removal of swiping in select markets this year, replacing it with an AI assistant called Bee and narrative-based profile chapters rolling out globally by spring 2026 Match Group …
HubPeople's Traffic Tool Is a Fragment Fix, Not a Growth Strategy
HubPeople operates a network of 4,000+ white-label dating sites across 70+ relationship niches Match Group (MTCH) shares down approximately 31% year-over-year, Bumble (BMBL) down roughly 68% Bumble in…
Meta's 'Location Fees' Squeeze Dating Margins in Europe
Meta now charges advertisers 2-5% 'location fees' on campaigns in the UK, France, Austria, Spain, Italy, and Türkiye to cover digital services taxes Dating platforms spent an estimated $3.2B on paid u…
13D Exited Match Group. The Subscription Model Is What They Lost Faith In.
13D Management liquidated its entire Match Group position in Q4 2024, selling 64,350 shares worth $4.69M Match shares have underperformed the broader market by 8.2 percentage points and are down appro…
Dating Apps Need 40 Swipes Per Match. The Answer Is Already In the Data.
Dating app users swipe an average of 40 times to secure a single match, with a swipe-to-date ratio of approximately 400:1 61% of users say the time investment makes them want to quit, whilst 75% have …
LegacyX Launches a Double-Date App Into the Most Crowded Corner of Dating
LegacyX, a London tech firm with no dating industry experience, has launched Vortex, an app centred on double dates rather than traditional one-on-one matching The top five dating apps accounted for 8…
Romance Scams Extracted $1.16B in Nine Months. The Industry Owns Part of That Number.
Romance fraud extracted $1.16B from US victims in the first nine months of 2025, marking a 22% year-on-year increase in complaints Criminal romance operations now generate revenue comparable to major …
Malaysia Blocks Grindr and Blued. The Regulatory Risk GRND Investors Keep Ignoring.
Malaysia's MCMC has blocked Grindr and Blued, affecting a market of 33 million people in the most explicit state-level ban on mainstream LGBTQ+ dating platforms in Southeast Asia Section 377 of Malays…
TikTok and MLB Proved Short-Form Sports Has a Business Model. Dating Is Still Guessing.
TikTok and Major League Baseball have announced a global content partnership focused on sports highlights and game recaps The deal involves MLB utilizing TikTok's GamePlan distribution tool for short-…
Singles Events Surge: A Symptom of App Fatigue, Not a Disruption
Match Group reported a 6% year-on-year decline in paying subscribers in Q3 2024, falling to 10.3 million users Bumble's revenue growth slowed to just 7% in Q3 2024, missing analyst expectations Single…
TikTok's Local Feed Is a Direct Threat to Dating Apps' Discovery Advantage
TikTok rolled out Local Feed to 170 million US users on 11th February, using GPS tracking to surface nearby venues and events 56% of US adults aged 18-29 use TikTok, with median session times exceedin…
Meta's AI Profile Animations Solve a Problem Members Did Not Have
Facebook retired video profiles in 2022 after adoption stalled; now relaunching with AI automation to remove creation friction New feature uses Meta AI to generate animated loops from static photos wi…
RAW's Valentine's Campaign Admits: The App Is the Obstacle
RAW's Valentine's Day campaign curates men into pet-adoption-style profile cards, funneling matches directly into hosted group dating events in New York Women browse and select; men apply to be featur…
Snapchat's Location Alerts Are a Dating Safety Feature Nobody Asked For
Snapchat's Home Safe feature recorded over 1 million activations in six months since July 2024 launch This represents just 0.23% of Snapchat's 443 million daily active users Feature now allows automat…
Snapchat's Super Bowl Playbook: A Missed Opportunity for Dating Apps
Match Group reported an 8% year-on-year decline in average session times across its portfolio in Q4 2025 63% of UK singles cite 'too many features I don't use' as a reason for deleting dating apps, ac…
EU's TikTok Case Puts Dating Apps' Engagement Tactics on Notice
The European Commission accused TikTok on 6 February of breaching the Digital Services Act through infinite scroll and autoplay features that reduce user self-control Dating apps use functionally iden…
Three Day Rule's AI Pivot: From Bespoke Matchmaking to Algorithmic Sameness
Three Day Rule relaunched in 2025 as an AI-powered dating app after operating as a premium human-led matchmaking service charging thousands of dollars Users report receiving identical AI-generated ope…
Tea Is Back. Three Lawsuits, a Data Breach and an Apple Ban Later.
Tea exposed government IDs, selfie videos, private messages, and home addresses for over one million users in July data breaches Three separate class action lawsuits remain active against the company …
Grindr's Buyout Collapse: A Reality Check for Dating App Valuations
Grindr's board terminated a $3.46 billion take-private proposal on 6 January after majority shareholders Ray Zage and James Lu failed to provide proof of financing Zage and Lu already control more tha…
Grindr's 'Daddy Lessons': Community Service or Brand Play?
Grindr launched 'Daddy Lessons', a fortnightly educational video series on queer history, in October with plans initially ending this month US schools recorded 10,000 book bans in 2023-24, with LGBTQ+…
