Dating Services

This coming weekend at Chemistry.com they will be offering all members the ability to communicate for free. This means starting Friday Feb. 5th, 2010 to Sunday, Feb. 7th, 2010 new and existing members will be able to email the matches Chemistry sends them for no cost.

Chemistry.com is a dating site which offers an in-depth matchmaking system. You don't search for matches on this dating site, Chemistry sends them to you based on what you entered in your profile and what combination of personality attributes their research shows creates a healthy and long relationship. Dr. Helen Fisher is a famous Biological Anthropologist who helped Chemistry.com create their unique matchmaking and communication process.

This is Chemistry's fifth time running this promotion with the last Chemistry.com Flirtathon happening in the beginning of December, in 2009 (see Story). For more information on this matchmaking service, read our Chemistry.com review.

It looks like the gay dating site ManCrunch.com took a page from AshleyMadison.com play book. Last year AshleyMadison.com created an ad for the Super Bowl which was rejected by the TV Networks (see Story). They received a lot of free press because of it. This year it must be ManCrunch.com's turn. Here is the TV commercial in question:

Note: Unfortunately the source to the video and/or image which once was displayed here has since been removed by the authors for an unknown reason.

While I was in no way offended by the commercial and I did find it comical, the problem is the production values are just not up to the standards for a show like the Super Bowl.

ManCrunch.com spokesman Dominic Friesen told the New York Post that CBS had said all the commercial spots for the Super Bowl were sold. Dominic Friesen felt this was not true and that there were being discriminated against.

There is more bad news for FriendFinder Networks regarding their IPO (see Story). FriendFinder was suppose to start trading on the New York Stock Exchange this Thursday under the symbol FNN. They now plan to launch sometime the following week. The dip in the market last week is said to take partial blame as well as some last-minute questions from the Securities and Exchange Commission. These questions are not uncommon and can delay the process of launching a deal.

For more information, read the Wall Street Journal.

eHarmony has been in business for over 10 years now and to help celebrate, Dan, eHarmony's first Customer Care agent released a few fun facts. The most interesting fact I found was that on average, eHarmony members submit 24,000 photos per day to the dating site.

The other facts deal more with just Customer Care. Did you know, every day eHarmony's Customer Care team handle thousands of requests for help and information via emails and phone calls. This large and dedicated staff performs their job well and has been recognized by the industry. In 2009 eHarmony received 3 awards of excellence for customer service. You can see one example here.

For the full story, read The Official eHarmony Blog and to find out more about this dating site, check out our eHarmony review.

Our Editor's Top Pick - Christian Award for 2009 goes to the dating site ChrsitianCafe.com. We like this service for it's no nonsense approach to online dating and the passion in which the owners of ChristianCafe.com have for matching their members.

Most dating sites accept Christian singles as members. The thing is, what makes ChrisitianCafe.com so popular with single Christians is that it doesn't try to be a dating site for everybody. It is a community for people who are like minded in faith. This is also part of their search criteria. When you search for your match on ChristianCafe.com you can select the Christian denomination, the amount of church involvement someone has, and how close a members Christian Faith is too them. You cannot do this on other larger, but generic dating sites. If you try, all you end up doing is scanning numerous pages of singles just looking for the Christian members.

ChristianCafe.com is a dating site which (refreshingly) takes the straight forward approach to online dating. As a new member you automatically get a 10 day free trial (no Credit Card # needed) which includes not only winks but communicating with email or text instant messaging to anyone on the site you want. This gives you virtually full access to the site to see how it works and to find out if there are any members who interest you. It is also easy to see when a member was last on, as well as who is currently online, and how many people have joined this week. ChristianCafe.com is as open as possible with its members.

It is easy to see why this Christian dating site is so popular. All you have to do is browse the members to see all the genuine profiles and pictures of real members. This is the main reason why we gave ChristianCafe.com the Top Pick - Christian Award, the quality and sincerity of their members.

Read our review of ChristianCafe.com for more information about this dating service or visit ChristianCafe.com directly.

This Year's Runner Ups for this award include (in no particular order): Catholic Match and ChristianMingle.com.

Avid Life Media Inc. is the parent company of several online dating sites. This includes the popular affairs site AsheleyMadison.com, as well as EstablishedMen.com and CougarLife.com. Avid Life Media is looking to raise $60 million with its possible debut on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE) in the coming months. In 2009 Avid Life Media earned $30 million in revenue and $8 million in EBITDA. The dating site Ashley Madison, currently accounts for only 15 percent of the total revenue earned by Avid Life Media.

Avid Life Media plans to use some of the money raised to buy an online advertising sales company called Moxy Media.