Contributed by: Editor on Wednesday, January 14 2009 @ 09:50 am
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David Evans of the Online Dating Insider, had an interview with Mandy Ginsberg who is the Match.com GM for North America. She let David know about a few things that will be coming to Match.com in 2009. The main thing we have to look forward too is the new Platinum membership package. Not much is know yet, but apparently Platinum members will be able to contact all member types, including free users. This means members now have the ability to communicate with anyone on Match.com and they will not have to worry if the user can reply back or not without paying first. Other dating sites have started to allow this and I am glad to see Match.com following suit.
I could of sworn I wrote about Match.com's Platinum package before but I couldn't find anything mentioned on my site. Through a Google search I did find what I was looking for. Match.com currently does have a Platinum package. You can find it here[*1] and I believe it was started a couple years ago. It currently is a premium matchmaking service offered by Match.com but is not directly tied to the dating site. The service is only available in Dallas, Texas where the Match.com head office is located. This is a personalized service where you and a matchmaker work one on one to find your ideal match. I wonder if Match.com will be either dropping this service or renaming it to avoid confusion?
Mandy also weighed in on the Match.com registrations per day issue which we noticed and have mentioned on our online dating statistics page. She thinks
Match North America has approximately 25,000 registrations a day. Some days the number dips below, which is why they promote 20,000 registrations a day. She thinks overall global number of daily registrations is 60,000.
Which is what are thinking was except the 60,000 number should be really 71,000. This is the number which is listed on the Match.com's parent company's website as the number of new registered members per day on Match.com.
I also checked out the new wall feature which is similar to Facebooks wall. You basically get a history of what has happened to your profile and any communication you have received. It shows you events like who has viewed or favorited your profile, as well as when someone has winked or sent you an email.
One thing I notice while on Match.com today was they have added a new 6 month package that includes the 6 month guarantee, Email Read Notification, First Impressions and the Highlighted Profile feature. This new package costs $17.99 per month and is just a dollar more a month than the other 6 month package that just includes a guarantee. This gives you a $38.34 savings if you added all these packages separately to the other 6 month membership package. This is a great deal, and with the prominent billing on the Match.com's subscribe page (it is automatically selected), I bet more people are picking this package. The last time we checked Match.com's prices on November 19, 2008 they did not have this new subscription package.
For the full interview visit the Online Dating Insider[*2] . For more information on the dating site, read our Match.com Review.