Looks like software patents in the US are about to be history, or business method software patents… I’m glad this invalidates many of the ridiculous patents that have been used against dating sites lately.
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idINN3026126020081030
The canadian dollar continues to slide, just a few months ago it was 1:1 now 1 USD buys 1.286 CDN
Check out the currency chart.
Today i found out that ASK.com doesn’t use the regular google adsense for search. Their ads are triggered by content network settings. So there is no way for me to stop my ads from showing up on terms like Plentyoffish, or plentyoffish.com etc. Instead of wasting large amounts of money getting users who are already registered i’ve blocked ASk.com and mywebsearch.com. From what i see they are pulling the same scam with others in the dating industry.
Match.com just announced they passed 1 billion emails and 1 billion winks world wide since launched. Now if we compare number of emails to revenue that comes out to $2.00 + per email in revenue? I didn’t add up their numbers but just looked at this revenue chart briefly. I also wonder what match.com’s relationship rate per email is.
If I could make $2.00 an email we would do billions in revenue a year.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27213018/
I wonder how they are doing in the US, no one is going to have $2,000 to $10,000 a year to spend on matchmakers.
Singlesnet has come out with an affiliate program, only major dating site i’ve seen that has come out with a proper affiliate program other than AFF or fling.
Looks like a massive slowdown in the US market, compete is showing all the major dating sites have big declines. Plentyoffish showed a small increase for Sept, but that is mostly because of the massive momentum we built over the summer. Like everyone else we saw a massive drop in momentum and signups in September. Several people have mentioned that Plentyoffish now has the top spot in the US according to hitwise.
It looks like during a recession people don’t flood to free sites, A dating site only costs the same as a cheap date. People aren’t going to use a free site or spend $20.00 on a paid one when they have to worry about spending $500+ on dates or dating someone.
On the plus side, depending on how you look at it, the Canadian dollar has gone from 1 to 1 with the US to 83 cents verse $1.00 USD in the last few weeks. The dollar had the biggest fall in history today going down nearly 5.4% for the day.
I wonder how many dating sites will fold, and how many free sites will give up as advertising revenue vanishes.
