A few Dating Site Missed Notable Tidbits from the last year.
- Sunday, January 13 2008 @ 12:05 pm
- Contributed by: Editor
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Well after doing some review updates I thought I would mention a few more of the notable tidbits I found regarding some of our reviewed dating services. I should of written this early as I am sure I have forgotten a few.
First off is Match.com,
Within the last year sometime Match.com has dropped their 1 month membership price by 5 dollars to $29.99. The 3 and 6 month membership prices also went down by a few dollars. Recently (must be within the last month) Dr Phil has disappeared from Match and he has taken with him the MatchMindFind membership plans. For those of you who don't know, MatchMindFind Match.com memberships (say that 10 times fast) included videos and articles on how to improve your success in online dating. These memberships on average cost $10 more than the regular Match.com membership plans. If memory serves, Dr. Phil had been associated with Match.com for at least 2 years. I wonder if Match.com thought that the money used to secure Dr. Phil's name was better spent on other ventures like MatchMobile and MatchMyFriends. Or maybe, members where not buying into MatchMindFind any more?
The other new thing I notice regarding Match.com was that the MatchMyFriends information page has gotten a makeover (already). They have put a very high quality video and tour online. It is very informative and it explains this new service very well. I like the idea of the popup links in the video that takes you to different parts of the site if you want to learn more.
The next thing I notice was about Jewish FriendFinder,
Jewish FriendFinder has appeared to of lost about 300,000 members since the last real review I did. They went from roughly 400,000 members to around 100,000 today. I can't recall exactly where I gathered the initial information but it was most likely from Friend Finder themselves, about 1 1/2 years ago. Last year FriendFinder did change how they calculated membership numbers so this may also play into the number of active members they have now negatively. Some dating sites count all members that have created profiles since the start of the service (this could be years of profiles), FriendFinder includes members into their statistics that only have logged in within the last year and have a valid email account. While not the most stringent of definition for an active member, at least they include this information and it is fairly easy to find on their site. No other dating site except those of the FriendFinder Network I know of at the moment does this.
Well that's it for now; I'll post again when I have a few more tidbits.
First off is Match.com,
Within the last year sometime Match.com has dropped their 1 month membership price by 5 dollars to $29.99. The 3 and 6 month membership prices also went down by a few dollars. Recently (must be within the last month) Dr Phil has disappeared from Match and he has taken with him the MatchMindFind membership plans. For those of you who don't know, MatchMindFind Match.com memberships (say that 10 times fast) included videos and articles on how to improve your success in online dating. These memberships on average cost $10 more than the regular Match.com membership plans. If memory serves, Dr. Phil had been associated with Match.com for at least 2 years. I wonder if Match.com thought that the money used to secure Dr. Phil's name was better spent on other ventures like MatchMobile and MatchMyFriends. Or maybe, members where not buying into MatchMindFind any more?
The other new thing I notice regarding Match.com was that the MatchMyFriends information page has gotten a makeover (already). They have put a very high quality video and tour online. It is very informative and it explains this new service very well. I like the idea of the popup links in the video that takes you to different parts of the site if you want to learn more.
The next thing I notice was about Jewish FriendFinder,
Jewish FriendFinder has appeared to of lost about 300,000 members since the last real review I did. They went from roughly 400,000 members to around 100,000 today. I can't recall exactly where I gathered the initial information but it was most likely from Friend Finder themselves, about 1 1/2 years ago. Last year FriendFinder did change how they calculated membership numbers so this may also play into the number of active members they have now negatively. Some dating sites count all members that have created profiles since the start of the service (this could be years of profiles), FriendFinder includes members into their statistics that only have logged in within the last year and have a valid email account. While not the most stringent of definition for an active member, at least they include this information and it is fairly easy to find on their site. No other dating site except those of the FriendFinder Network I know of at the moment does this.
Well that's it for now; I'll post again when I have a few more tidbits.
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