Plentyoffish has thousands upon thousands of marriages and its getting hard not to find people in your group of friends that haven’t found someone on plentyoffish at least in Canada.
A few days ago I added a new section to the site that show cases hundreds of the tens of thousands of marriages that are formed as a result of using plentyoffish.com
According to exit polling when people leave, Plentyoffish generates more relationships per year than any other dating service and in a couple of years we will have more marriages then any other services. This is because marriages lag relationships by a few years.
The canadian market is split in 2, people pay for casual dating on lavalife.ca and all the serious daters use plentyoffish.com. Other then plentyoffish there are no serious dating sites that have marketshare in canada. In the united states there aren’t a heck of a lot of casual daters using plentyoffish. The average age of a plentyoffish user in the US is 39, this is higher then any paid dating service.
February 14, 2007 at 2:30 am |
Markus. How was the SN conference in CA?
February 14, 2007 at 6:31 am |
I was actually dazzled when visiting “just married” page (^_^), many of them are marring this year.
Also 45000 concurrent users on many nights is dazzling!
February 14, 2007 at 9:39 am |
In your earlier post your were saying that “As a free site I still have to pay $5.00 a member just like paid sites if you want to advertise.” When one buys advertising he can set up targeting by age for his campaigns to get the desired customer age so no wonder you get these numbers.
February 14, 2007 at 12:53 pm |
I’m surprised that as a programmer you consistently get “then” and “than” confused. “Then” is like the programming construct “if … then …”, or like when you’re telling a story: “and then this happened”. The four uses above should all be “than” as in “greater than” or “less than”, another programming idiom: more relationships per year than any other, more marriages than, other than, it is higher than. Oh, and “it’s getting harder”, as in “it is getting harder”.
February 14, 2007 at 5:37 pm |
Bit petty no?
February 14, 2007 at 7:27 pm |
People will always look for something to take someone down a peg or two.
Watch out for the grammar police. They’re everywhere.
February 14, 2007 at 8:10 pm |
Ya I can’t spell.
February 15, 2007 at 12:43 pm |
I wasn’t trying to put anyone down. I was trying to help Markus by using a context that perhaps he could appreciate.
February 20, 2007 at 10:28 pm |
There are 5×71=355 entries in your new section where people talk about their success stories. 355×2=715 individuals reporting success. You take this number, you divide it by 2 (for two years 2005-2007), you multiply it by 100, and divide the result by the average number of members/year, and you get the probability of success per year of a Plantyoffish member. If you take a constant average of 1,000,000 members/year, you get 0.0355%/year. That’s approximately your chance to get a successful dating result as a Plantyoffish member. Perhaps not everybody reports his/her success story. If in reality for every member reporting his/her success story there are 120 others experiencing success but not reporting it, your chance of success becomes 1%/year (for every report of success you have 2 individuals). Not bad for a free thing. But can you call that a dating service? Would you still consider your financial broker if he tells you that there is only 1% chance that you will make money with him?
Tiberius Brastaviceanu
Inventor of the new Matchmaking Device System
February 21, 2007 at 12:05 am |
Your math is pretty off.
1. Its actually over 600, but I only took the best ones.
2. Marriages normally lag relationships by 3-5 years.
3. Plentyoffish grew 20 fold in the last 2 years.
At the end of the day your chances of finding someone on a free site will always be far higher then a paid site. By the end of 2007 Plentyoffish will generate more marriages then Eharmony and match.com combined as a result of relationships formed in 2007.
Even using your math, Plentyoffish still has more marriages than Eharmony with its 10 million plus members.
July 14, 2008 at 6:17 pm |
I was just on the site and have been enjoying it, but it is either down or unavailable in the midst of a conversation (on line chat)
Does this happen often? It is my 1st time with this problem.
Cheers
July 28, 2008 at 3:33 am |
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April 30, 2009 at 4:19 pm |
I am one of the lucky ones from Plenty of Fish! My husband and I met on the site in August 2008, and we were married in March of 2009!! Thanks Markus!!!