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TOKYO Enmusubi produced 265 marriages from 16,000 users in 21 months — a 1.7% marriage conversion rate Only 16,000 of 36…
Tinder paused its AI Photo Enhance tool this week after users reported the feature altered facial features including tee…
Arya acquired Flamme, a couples app with 200,000+ users, in a deal that closed within 30 days of first LinkedIn contact …
Coffee Meets Bagel reports 30% increase in messages sent with likes and 21% rise in profile viewing time since June 2024…
Flutrr co-founder Anirban Banerjee moves from CMO to interim CEO, with Ankit Santra stepping into the CMO role The "inte…
One in four Americans have encountered fake profiles or AI-generated bots on dating platforms, according to McAfee resea…
High Intent Media launches as a holding company offering white-label dating platform infrastructure, payment rails, mode…
Messages sent alongside likes increased 30% since Coffee Meets Bagel's 2.0 launch, with profile viewing time up 21% CMB …
Tinder revenue declined 5% year-on-year in Q4 2024 as users report fatigue with endless swiping and declining connection…
Lucille McCart, former Global Director of Corporate Communications at Bumble, has joined AI matchmaking startup Overtone…
Tinder's monthly active users have declined year-over-year, with Match Group CEO Spencer Rascoff stating the company has…
Match Group led an $18M seed round for Overtone, a startup founded by former Hinge CEO Justin McLeod that aims to replac…
Fate has 10,000 app installs and is launching curated speed dating events in London with 20 participants each First two …
SURF launched in 2024 and has secured partnerships with HYROX, World Surf League US Open of Surfing, and Palm Tree Music…
Korea's three largest independent dating apps—Enrise, Cupist, and Triplecomma—all operate profitably with margins betwee…
Matrimony.com reported Q1 billings of ₹13,603 lakhs ($16.3M), representing just 7.8% year-on-year growth The company's M…
Goose, a new gay dating app, reached No. 4 in the US App Store's free lifestyle category within days of its invite-only …
80% of Gen Z believe they will find true love, compared to just 56% of all singles Only 25% of adults under 30 list find…
Grindr shares surged 16% after Morgan Stanley upgraded the stock to overweight, driven by optimism around its AI-powered…
Coffee Meets Bagel has raised $23M in total funding since its Shark Tank appearance, competing against public companies …
South Korea's online dating market is projected to grow 7.5% annually through 2035 from a current valuation of $264 mill…
Known dating app expanding from San Francisco to San Diego in July after exclusive SF-only launch phase San Diego metro …
Bumble's market capitalisation has collapsed to $388M, down 95% from its $7B February 2021 IPO valuation Paying users dr…
Meta plans to increase AI-driven content and ad moderation from 50% to 90% by the end of 2026 Match Group disclosed $523…
Turkey has blocked Jack'd and other LGBTQ+ dating apps weeks after blocking Hornet, marking the most significant coordin…
64% of U.S. singles aged 18-39 have used AI to craft dating profiles or maintain conversations 47% view AI negatively wh…
Dating apps exhibit a "cycling on, cycling off" pattern where users delete and reinstall apps in a loop directly correla…
Over 60% of Bumble matches never exchange a single message, according to the company's Q2 2023 earnings data Hinge's 202…
SURF has become the official dating partner for the World Surf League's US Open in Huntington Beach, running 25 July to …
Grindr reported $130 million in Q1 revenue, up 38% year-on-year, and raised full-year guidance to $535 million Average p…
Reev is a voice-first dating app launching in Australia with mandatory audio prompts before photo access, requiring user…
Bumble reported Q1 revenue of $212.4M but lost 21.1% of paying users year-over-year, down to 3.2 million Net earnings su…
47% of Gen Z would prefer to meet romantic partners at book clubs rather than dating apps, according to ThriftBooks rese…
Match Group reported Q1 revenue of $864M, beating analyst estimates of $854.9M, whilst announcing hiring slowdown for re…
Known charges $15 per confirmed first date, not per month of app usage or premium features The company has raised $10M f…
Match Group invested $100M for a minority stake in Sniffies with an option to acquire the platform outright later Match …
Match Group has partnered with World, Sam Altman's biometric scanning company, to introduce iris-scanning verification f…
Bumble has refinanced its debt with a $475 million senior secured term loan from STORY3 Capital Partners and a syndicate…
Grindr has 14 million monthly active users who spend an average of one hour per day on the app The Madonna campaign prom…
Match Group has built a $9 billion business on dating apps that psychiatrist Amir Levine argues exploit neurological thr…
Tinder's user base has collapsed from 65.4 million in 2021 to 50.5 million today—a 23% decline Men now represent roughly…
19% of LGBTQ+ people have lost someone to drug-related death, according to Grindr-commissioned research 28% report havin…
Sniffies has launched four features designed to accelerate the path from profile view to in-person hookup, inverting the…
Schmooze, a Bengaluru-based dating app, requires users to speak with an AI voice agent before swiping, replacing the tra…
Eight has raised €256,600 of a planned €3M seed round, representing roughly 8.5% of the target The app operates for just…
Tinder has made facial verification compulsory for all new users in Singapore, its third market after the US and UK Matc…
Yidui posted $570M revenue and $65.2M operating profit for fiscal 2024, tripling profit year-on-year 16.4% of users pay …
Match Group (MTCH) is down 38% over twelve months; Bumble (BMBL) has lost 52% over the same period Tinder's paying user …
Plus 1 has reached 10,000 downloads in its first six months operating exclusively in South Florida The app has introduce…
Tinder investing $125M annually in trust and safety, representing roughly 4% of Match Group's $3.19B total 2023 revenue …
Two UNC students launched Anchor, a dating app that skips swiping and arranges dates at specific venues based on availab…
Tinder downloads collapsed from 61 million in 2021 to 48 million in 2025—a 21% decline Match Group CEO Spencer Rascoff h…
Keeper, a Y Combinator-backed dating app, uses proprietary AI to rate users' physical attractiveness as its primary matc…
Friending has raised £5M in seed funding to launch a platonic friendship app that forces users to meet within 48 hours o…
New York-based 222 has closed $10.1M in Series A funding, bringing total raised to $13.7M The platform charges $22 per m…
Muzz traffic collapsed by 20% in the opening days of Ramadan 2026, according to founder Shahzad Younas The drop is steep…
From 7 April 2025, every UK dating platform must detect and report child sexual exploitation and abuse material to the N…
Grindr is launching a premium AI-powered subscription tier in beta across Australia, New Zealand, and select North Ameri…
Venntro Media Group collapsed in August 2024 despite generating approximately £40 million in annual revenue after 21 yea…
13D Management liquidated its entire Match Group position in Q4 2024, selling 64,350 shares worth $4.69M Match shares ha…
LegacyX, a London tech firm with no dating industry experience, has launched Vortex, an app centred on double dates rath…
Match Group eliminated its COO position just 12 months after creating it, resulting in the departure of 18-year veteran …
Soirée launches in Luxembourg with monthly memberships from €49 to €199, offering vetted access and in-person events Lux…
Hati charges £48 per week (potentially £2,496 annually), making it four to six times more expensive than mainstream dati…
Match Group will host its first-ever standalone product event, SPARKS 2025, on 12 March 2025, focused exclusively on Tin…
Rodeo has raised $8.5M in seed funding led by Coefficient Capital, with participation from Forerunner Ventures and forme…
60% of Indian running club participants cite 'meeting people' as primary motivation over fitness goals Membership in Del…
Bumble faces Texas class-action lawsuit over ransomware attack allegedly exposing over 30 GB of user records including n…
Grindr reported Q4 revenue of $126M, up 29% year-over-year, beating analyst estimates by $4M The company announced a $40…
Steven Bartlett backs pre-revenue dating app hati in Dragons' Den deal, cutting against two years of selective consumer …
Malaysia's MCMC has blocked Grindr and Blued, affecting a market of 33 million people in the most explicit state-level b…
Match Group is appointing Manuel Bronstein (former Roblox CPO) and Raina Moskowitz (CEO of The Knot Worldwide) to its bo…
TikTok and Major League Baseball have announced a global content partnership focused on sports highlights and game recap…
Saudi Arabia's dating app market generated nearly $16M in revenue from 3.5 million downloads in the past year Approximat…
Thursday claims a $50M valuation, three years behind the 2021 public deadline set by co-founder George Rawlings The anno…
Match Group share price has fallen over 60% from its 2021 peak due to stagnating Tinder growth and margin compression Bu…
Snapchat+ has reached 25 million paying subscribers, driving Snap Inc.'s direct revenue to a $1 billion annual run rate …
DUA AG has acquired Vancouver-based personality-first dating app IRLY in an undisclosed all-cash deal IRLY emerged from …
RAW's Valentine's Day campaign curates men into pet-adoption-style profile cards, funneling matches directly into hosted…
Bumble has reversed Opening Moves in Mexico and Australia, reinstating women-message-first less than a year after launch…
HubPeople has migrated Say Allo and DiHola, two dating apps with 'hundreds of thousands' of users, onto its white-label …
Instagram is developing a feature allowing users to remove themselves from someone else's Close Friends list, the first …
Reddit has expanded beta access to Reminder Ads, allowing advertisers to send push notifications and inbox messages to u…
South Korea's competition watchdog has ordered Sunoo, reportedly the country's oldest matchmaking agency at 40 years old…
Ditto has raised $9.2M in seed funding from Peak XV Partners, Gradient, Scribble Ventures, Alumni Ventures, and Llama Ve…
TikTok's U.S. daily active users rebounded to above 90 million after dropping to 86–88 million in late January following…
Microsoft dropped 'record levels of engagement' language from LinkedIn's Q4 earnings for the first time since 2018, desp…
Left Field secured £156,000 ($200,000) from Kendra Scott and Alexis Ohanian on Shark Tank for 8% equity plus 4% advisory…
Thursday has partnered with Pepsi UK to host a branded singles event on 12 February 2026 at The Ministry in Borough, wit…
AI-powered romance scams generated 4.5 times more revenue per operation than traditional methods in 2025 Cryptocurrency-…
HER's 'Everything Reminds Me of HER' billboard campaign features sexually suggestive imagery across New York and Los Ang…
TikTok's new U.S. joint venture will retrain its algorithm using exclusively American user data, hosted in Oracle's clou…
TikTok's latest extension expires 23 January 2026, with no final approval from ByteDance, investors or Chinese governmen…
Match Group acquired Her in 2025, marking its entry into dedicated sapphic dating 68% of Her users surveyed are slowly r…
Match Group has missed subscriber growth targets for four consecutive quarters Like Love, founded February 2025, has ope…
TikTok has launched a printable weekly planner to help families discuss screen time, marking a shift from purely digital…
WedKnott, a matchmaking platform for high-earning Indian professionals, has secured undisclosed investment from blockcha…
TikTok becomes FIFA's first-ever 'Preferred Platform' for the 2026 World Cup, running 11 June to 19 July across North Am…
Known raised $9.7M from Forerunner, NFX, Pear VC, and Coelius Capital to launch a pay-per-date model charging $30 per ac…
Hinge recorded a 31.2% surge in likes and 24.5% jump in messages on Dating Sunday (4 January) compared to a typical Sund…
Matrimony.com shares jumped 14% following announcement of third share buyback since 2022 Previous buybacks offered premi…
GoodDate is a nonprofit dating platform registered as a 501(c)(3) organisation in the US, offering compatibility-based m…
Hily has 30 million registered users globally, compared to Tinder's 75 million and Bumble's 45 million monthly actives R…
Date Draft plans to launch January 2026 with a 'Trade Room' feature allowing users to dump unwanted matches for others t…
Tinder's parent company Match Group share price has collapsed 60% from $182 in October 2021 to $73 today Tinder's payer …
First-month uninstall rates for dating apps jumped from 65% to 69% between 2024 and 2025 91% of 18- to 24-year-olds now …
Info Edge Ventures paid Rs. 5.50 crores ($650,000) for the remaining 3.65% stake in Aisle Network, giving it full owners…
27% of American couples who married between 2024 and 2025 met through dating apps or websites—more than any other single…
Grindr generated $316M in annual revenue with a 39.4% EBITDA margin in Q3 2024 The company added 686,000 paying subscrib…
QuackQuack has crossed 40 million registered users, with metro areas now representing the majority of new registrations …
Feeld has published its second issue of AFM magazine in under a year, featuring photographer Nan Goldin and novelist Cat…
Apple removed gay dating apps Blued and Finka from China's App Store following government orders, cutting off millions o…
Match Group reported 2% year-on-year revenue growth to $914M in Q3 2024 The company spent $550M on share buybacks year-t…
34% of dating app users have used platforms for professional networking or career purposes in the past year Nearly 10% c…
Facebook Dating has reached 21.5 million daily active users across 52 countries with zero monetisation US user growth am…
Bumble's US daily active users fell 6.4% year-on-year, outpacing Tinder's 5% decline Share price has collapsed from $76 …
Life360 claims 95% of American couples now use location-sharing technology, with 21% viewing refusal as a deal-breaker A…
MediaForEurope's €1.8bn takeover of ProSiebenSat.1 has triggered the sale of ParshipMeet Group, which operates dating br…
54% of American singles now consider romantic or emotional engagement with AI chatbots as infidelity, just 1 percentage …
Global Dating Insights has announced conference dates through 2027, providing a 24-month booking window for New York and…
Spark has launched in Singapore and Thailand with integrated venue booking directly in chat, targeting $1.5M annual reve…
Bharat Matrimony has invested $500,000 in Ask My Guru to integrate AI-powered Vedic astrology directly into its matchmak…
Grindr appoints John North as CFO, a finance executive from Enterprise Holdings, AutoNation, and Copart with no consumer…
Match Group trades 58% below its February 2021 peak; Bumble has lost two-thirds of its value since IPO Match Group and B…
Gigi pivoted from AI dating app to professional networking after just 2 years, citing the fundamental paradox that succe…
Tinder's paying user base has stagnated at approximately 10M subscribers across Q2 and Q3 2024 despite continuous featur…
Feels claims to have reached $10M in annual recurring revenue within six months of launch, with fewer than 12 people and…
Hello Group (NASDAQ: MOMO) has acquired full ownership of French dating app Happn, which claims 170 million registered u…
Bumble has spun out BFF, its friendship feature, into a standalone app after eight years inside the main platform The mo…
Match Group controls approximately half the global dating market through properties including Tinder, Hinge, Match.com, …
Match Group reported 14.1 million paying users in Q2, down 5% year-on-year The company pays more than $520 million annua…
Lumen reached 3.5 million users globally by mid-2024, restricted entirely to over-50s membership Over-50s convert to pai…
Nearly half of post-2023 relationships now start online, according to a new 50-country study examining 6,600 people App-…
Tinder India generated approximately $16M in consumer spend during 2023—less than the app earns in a fortnight in the Un…
41% of Gen Z respondents said they'd be bothered by a partner's sexual history, compared to just 19% of Gen X and 14% of…
Tinder's average revenue per paying user dropped 1% year-on-year for the third consecutive quarter in Q3 2024 45% of dat…
18 of 24 popular dating apps scored D or F grades for data protection in new cybersecurity audit Match Group's average r…
Cerca requires school email verification and a minimum 40-user threshold before activating Student Mode at any campus Th…
Raya maintains an active user base of 100,000-200,000 whilst sitting on a waitlist of 2.5 million people The app has bee…
Jdate, a 28-year-old Jewish dating platform, has added dating coaches and personalised human matchmaking services to its…
64% of Gen Z singles would rather cancel a date than admit they can't afford it 28% of Gen Z singles have stopped dating…
Global Dating Insights has extended nominations for its Women in Dating Special Report 2025 until 22 August, giving dati…
Grindr launched an in-app content hub called Grindr Presents hosting uncensored original programming and curated playlis…
Match Group will pay $14 million to settle FTC allegations it sent notifications about messages from fake accounts to dr…
45% of Gen Z workers are now in workplace relationships, more than double the 21% reported by baby boomers Match Group r…
Match Group's Sentinel system logged hundreds of sexual assault reports weekly by 2022, according to shareholder lawsuit…
Tawkify charges clients upwards of $6,000 annually for matchmaking services and claims singles are abandoning swipe cult…
Match Group reported $864M in Q2 revenue whilst losing 5% of paying users year-on-year, dropping to 14.1 million subscri…
10% of Britons now meet their partners through dating apps, according to Relate research Dating platforms typically run …
Global Dating Insights' 2025 Women in Dating Special Report nominations run through 18 August, profiling female executiv…
Grindr reports second-quarter results on 7 August with 14.5 million monthly active users across 190 countries The compan…
Match Group shares have collapsed roughly 80% since February 2021, erasing approximately $40 billion in market capitalis…
Two in seven QuackQuack users now meet close friends through the dating app, with 21% maintaining entirely platonic rela…
UK dating apps must implement age verification via selfie videos or government ID from 25 July 2025 under Ofcom's Online…
Over 250 fraudulent dating applications have been used to harvest intimate photos and personal information from Android …
Bumble shares rose 3% on Wednesday following stronger-than-expected US retail sales data The company eliminated 240 posi…
Single Riders is recruiting beta testers for a dating app that matches Disney fans in real-time whilst they queue at the…
66% of dating app users don't trust platforms to protect them from fraud and dangerous individuals Trust deficit rises t…
Muzz hosted its first offline singles event in India with approximately 100 participants using structured activities and…
Tinder has made biometric video selfie verification mandatory for all new users in California, marking the first compuls…
Grindr reported 25% revenue growth whilst Bumble trades at $6, down 86% from its $43 IPO price Pew Research shows dating…
Feeld has reported 30% user growth from mainstream 'vanilla' users whilst maintaining its positioning as a kink-friendly…
Meet Kinksters closed just 30 months after launching in late 2022, following sale of mobile assets to BeeDee iOS users r…
Bumble is eliminating 30% of its workforce — approximately 240 employees — to save $40M annually This follows a 350-pers…
Pawsome Pair promises to donate 20% of subscription revenue to animal shelters, entering a pet-dating vertical with at l…
Grindr expects 26% revenue growth in 2025, significantly outpacing Match Group's low single-digit growth and Bumble's fl…
Three Day Rule acquired by Palm Venture Studios, shifting from boutique matchmaker offering packages up to £800,000 towa…
62% of dating app users aged 18-40 feel 'not perfect enough' when using platforms, according to a survey of 3,000 Americ…
ARCHER surveyed 551 users in February 2025, finding 61.5% prioritise long-term relationships versus 10.5% seeking casual…
Mattr has secured 26,000 downloads and facilitated 50,000 conversations since launching in 2021 The company is raising t…
Four new dating platforms launched in February 2025, each promising to solve algorithmic opacity whilst deploying sophis…
The ACCC has taken eHarmony to federal court over allegations the platform trapped users in premium subscriptions throug…
Grindr raised its 2025 revenue guidance to $405M-$415M after Q4 2024, outperforming expectations whilst Match Group and …
Tinder, Bumble and Hinge generated $4 billion in revenue since January 2024, with April 2025 marking the highest monthly…
Tinder generates over 50% of Match Group's $1.8B annual revenue but has lost cultural currency with Gen Z users Match Gr…
Sniffies removed from Apple's App Store months after March 2025 iOS launch, citing 'ongoing content restrictions' Grindr…
Tinder CEO Faye Iosotaluno will step down in July after just 18 months in the role Match Group disclosed Q1 2025 paying …
E.l.f. Beauty (valued at $8.4B) has partnered with Tawkify matchmaking service for a new dating show Tawkify charges bet…
Match Group has acquired HER, the dating platform for queer women and non-binary people, with financial terms undisclose…
Thursday has sold nearly 800 tickets for its inaugural Dubai event in mid-January, marking its first Middle East expansi…
40% of married users on extramarital platform Gleeden report engaging in emotionally intimate online relationships witho…
Bumble reported Q1 revenue of $247.1M, down 7% year-on-year, yet shares climbed 7% Paying users fell nearly 1% to 2.7M w…
SlideIn is Connor Rose's second dating app in four years, following IRLY which launched in 2021 with similar authenticit…
The Lox Club launches in London on 30 January targeting Jewish and "Jew-ish" singles after four years of US operations L…
Early bird tickets for GDI's NYC conference priced at £249 until 31 January 2025, rising 300% to £999 thereafter Event s…
Grindr is deploying its AI conversation summary feature to just 25% of premium subscribers, reaching approximately 2.5% …
Feeld won a Webby Award for launching a celibacy profile tag within five days of Bumble's controversial advertising camp…
QuackQuack surveyed 10,000 users claiming toxic dating trends have declined by 30% in India India's dating app market ad…
Sitch has raised $2M in pre-seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz's Speedrun accelerator The platform charges $90–160 …
79% of Gen Z dating app users report experiencing 'dating app fatigue', citing superficial interactions and lack of genu…
Grindr has launched "Taken on Grindr", an optional in-app camera that timestamps and watermarks photos to verify recency…
Match Group appoints Spencer Rascoff as its fourth CEO in six years following Bernard Kim's 18-month tenure Bumble reins…
The Lox Club launches in London next week, marking its first international expansion since launching in the US four year…
POPCORN, a dating platform rebranding from its pseudonymous sex-dating origins, has launched a bilingual survey on women…
Social platform advertising now represents 67% of Match Group's performance marketing spend, up from 54% in 2021 38% of …
Tinder has launched an AI-powered voice game using OpenAI's GPT-4o that scores users on conversational performance acros…
Betterhalf.ai matched two MBA graduates with 89% algorithmic compatibility, only for the connection to fail within hours…
Tribal dating app launches this month with 72-hour photo blur, forcing personality-first connections through 44-question…
Social Discovery Group commits $20 million to venture fund targeting AI-powered dating tools and VR social platforms Fun…
39% of Indian dating app users are deliberately delaying progressing matches, prioritising emotional readiness over rapi…
MillionaireMatch has introduced 'No Sex Monday', disabling all connection tools including messages, likes and winks ever…
72-76% of Gen Z and millennials have never used AI dating tools and don't plan to Only 9-15% of respondents reported act…
75.8% of dating app revenue now comes from one-time purchases rather than subscriptions, according to analytics firm Ada…
Bumble's market capitalisation has collapsed more than 90% from its February 2021 IPO peak of $14B to approximately $1.2…
Hello Group's net income collapsed 59% in Q4 2024 to $32.2M, whilst revenue fell 12% year-on-year to $471.2M Middle East…
Match Group controls approximately 45% of the global dating market through Tinder, Hinge, OkCupid, and Match.com Match's…
48% of Slide1828 users reported feeling uncomfortable meeting someone alone from a dating app Match Group's Hinge report…
Hinge added 1.1 million new paying subscribers in Q4 2024 alone, reaching 7.4 million globally Jackie Jantos promoted fr…
HUD has reached 18 million users across 166 countries, nearly a decade after launching as an explicitly casual dating ap…
Tinder will introduce AI-curated matching later in 2024, the first alternative to its signature swipe mechanic in over a…
Match Group shares fell 3.2% in after-hours trading following the CEO announcement, wiping roughly $400M off market capi…
48% of dating app users reported using platforms 'simply to meet new people' according to 2021 Kaspersky research Gen Z …
LELO claims 82.5% of dating app users widened age filters in past year, with younger men and older women driving the tre…
Mattr has raised £177,000 through crowdfunding—78% of its £225,000 target—from 247 investors with three days remaining T…
Match Group deploys AI message screening across Tinder and Hinge to combat harassment 20% of users revise flagged messag…
Tinder lost more than 500,000 users between 2023 and 2024 The top ten dating platforms saw a 16% year-on-year decline in…
Breeze is sending nine couples on first dates through IKEA showrooms this Valentine's Day, matched on sleep compatibilit…
Tinder's monthly active users fell 8% year-on-year in January 2025 Revenue came in below analyst forecasts, prompting ur…
Social League launches in Dubai this month targeting professionals aged 30-60 with invitation-only events and vetted mem…
Le Club, launching later this year, is a new dating platform from Koji founder Roxy Lin targeting women frustrated with …
Dates of Distinction launches on Valentine's Day charging £49.99 monthly for app access plus human matchmakers Match Gro…
First Round's On Me has hired Gersh Agency's brand consulting division to expand into alcoholic beverages, physical café…
79% of Gen Z and Millennial dating app users report feeling burnt out from endless swiping 84% of users have experienced…
Oscar Mayer's bacon-themed dating app Sizzl launched in 2015 with no disclosed user metrics or performance data Tinder r…
Nearly two million Britons now use dating apps, but 45% of users report feeling frustrated or pessimistic about the expe…
25.4% of Japanese couples under 40 who married in 2023 met through dating apps, up from 10.8% five years earlier Match G…
Four founder-led niche dating apps launched in 2024 remain operational after twelve months: voice-first Hum, verificatio…
Bumble has appointed Michael Affronti, a 15-year Salesforce veteran specialising in e-commerce, as Chief Product Officer…
Tinder reported 20% more messages sent on Dating Sunday 2025 than any previous iteration Hinge posted a 40% uplift in ac…
Tinder reports swipes jump 20%, likes climb 15%, and matches increase 10% on Dating Sunday compared to an average Sunday…
Match Group's total paying subscribers fell to 10.3 million in Q3 2024, down from 10.8 million the prior year Hinge rema…
Grindr closed at $16.75 this week, more than doubling its year-ago price and reaching its highest valuation since going …
Match Group has 16 million paying subscribers globally whilst Bumble claims 4 million KRUSH reported fewer than 500 comb…
Feeld's revenue jumped 95% year-on-year to $41.4M in 2023, with subscription revenue up 107% The platform, originally de…
Hinge revenue climbed 30% year-on-year in Q4 2024, making it Match Group's only growth engine 71% of US dating app users…
Global Dating Insights and Social Discovery Insights are merging into three combined regional events for 2025 in North A…
Facebook Dating logged a 24% increase in daily conversations amongst 18-29 year-olds over the past year Women using Face…
Global Dating Insights' annual Christmas networking event at Houses of Parliament takes place 5 December, with final tic…
Bumble shares have declined roughly 80% from their February 2021 IPO peak of around $76, trading near $15 in recent week…
Dateability has reached 25,000 users across North America since launching in 2022, entirely through organic growth with …
Dutch banking data shows dating fraud victims losing an average of €25,000 per scam—roughly ten times typical online fra…
15% of Gen Z respondents in a Happn survey admitted to entering relationships before the holidays with the intention of …
Kiseki survey claims 95% of Japanese singles interested in dating foreigners, based on 230 respondents Japan's marriage …
Match Group shares dropped 13% after forecasting Q4 revenue below expectations, driven by Tinder's mid-single digit year…
QuackQuack claims 60% of male users aged 20-35 now prioritise mental health awareness in relationships Survey of 12,000 …
Meta's Facebook Dating grew 20% across North America in the past year, reaching 24% in the U.S. and Canada, though total…
Match Group's Tinder lost 8% of paying users year-over-year in Q3 2024, whilst Bumble's paying subscribers dropped 3% in…
India's online matchmaking market reached $323M in 2023 and is projected to hit $1.2B by 2028 Arranged marriages still a…
Bindr has raised $135,000 through two startup competitions in under a year, with $75,000 from Pittsburgh's UpPrize Socia…
Match Group reported an 8% year-on-year drop in Tinder paying users whilst HER grew its user base 15% in 2024 to 13 mill…
Dating app operators will spend $252M on advertising in 2024, a 15% increase from 2023 Bumble's ad spend ($44M through J…
51% of Australian singles consider discussing finances appropriate within the first six months of dating, rising to 63% …
Feeld is launching 'A Fucking Magazine', a biannual print publication featuring essays, poetry, and photography explorin…
FROME caps members at five conversations per month unless they pay to unlock more Match Group's Tinder revenue declined …
77% of singles report heightened nervousness the longer online conversations continue without transitioning to an in-per…
Greed Dating consolidates 16 niche dating categories into a single platform, from BBW Dating to Football Fans The platfo…
78% of dating app users report experiencing burnout from romantic matchmaking, according to Forbes Match Group generated…
Bumble faces securities fraud lawsuit over alleged misrepresentation of Premium Plus subscriptions and February 2024 app…
Plenty of Fish surveyed 5,800 US members to create eleven branded dating terms for 2025 40% of women surveyed reported '…
Feeld raised $5.2M in Series A funding in 2019 and expanded to 30 employees by 2023 Dating app funding in the 'alternati…
Ashley Madison is the most-searched and most-recommended dating platform in Texas, the only US state where the affair-fo…
Just 26% of online dating service users are aged 18-29, down from 48% in 2013 63% of Gen Z respondents prefer meeting po…
Bindr selected for TechCrunch Disrupt's Startup Battlefield 200 from over 8,000 applicants Platform removes sexual orien…
Schmooze has raised $4M in Series A funding, bringing total capital to $7.5M since 2021 launch The meme-based dating app…
Match Group appointed Sean Edgett as chief legal officer effective 23 September, replacing Jared Sine who departed in Ma…
Social Discovery Group operates over 60 dating platforms serving approximately 500 million users globally The company se…
55% of Flirtini users and one in four Americans now use AI to generate dating app messages and profile content Third-par…
Bumble Inc reports Q2 earnings Wednesday with analysts expecting revenue of $273M, up 5% year-on-year, and adjusted EPS …
Three dating apps—Better In Person, Lovector, and Find Our Way—launched between 15-17 July with near-identical value pro…
Six new dating platforms launched in recent weeks, each claiming algorithmic superiority or demographic specificity Matc…
Bindr, a dating app for bisexual and LGBTQ+ users, won $60,000 at Startupfest's inaugural queer entrepreneur pitch compe…
40 per cent of Singaporean women aged 21-34 don't intend to marry, compared to a 10 percentage point lower proportion of…
80% of QuackQuack's 12,000 surveyed users say family values significantly influence their dating choices in India 39% of…
Six new dating apps have launched recently, including Ark, ChristianSimplified, Finding You, Botly, Honeymoon, and BigFo…
81% of LGBTQIA+ Hinge users say they prefer building emotional intimacy before rushing into commitment Hinge reached $1.…
Grindr raised full-year revenue guidance to between 23% and 25% growth and projected annual growth of 20% to 25% through…
EVA AI has launched four LGBTQ+ characters (two lesbian, one gay male, one non-binary) on its companion platform, timing…
Hearts launched in November 2023 without a permanent CEO and is only now advertising for one, offering equity-only compe…
Three ultra-niche dating apps launched within weeks of each other: Heyoosh (AI-based, no photos), FET (BDSM/kink), and E…
HealthSteps launched on iOS after accumulating 30,000 Android users with a hybrid dating-networking-wellness platform Ma…
Match Group has appointed Jay Shetty, bestselling author and podcast host, as Chief Relationship Advisor to develop valu…
