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Cougar Life has offered Courteney Cox $1 million to promote their dating service. Courteney Cox is the star of the hit ABC TV show Cougar Town and has been in the news lately due to her recent breakup with her husband David Arquette. Cougar Life is an online dating site for older women and younger men.

Within the term of one year, the contract calls for her to voice 12 radio ads, appear in 4 TV commercials, and make 30 public appearances for Cougar Life.

For more on this story, read TMZ.

Zoosk's iPhone dating application makes an appearance in the music video for “Love, Love, Love” which is a new single by Hope, featuring Jason Mraz. You can see it right at the 3 minute mark:



This is the first time I know of, that Zoosk has marketed their dating site through a product spot in a music video. The only other dating site which has done this is Plenty of Fish. They appeared in two music videos, one was for Flo Rida and the other was with the Lada Gaga Telephone video.

For more information on this popular online dating service, read our review of Zoosk.

Santa Monica City Council is preparing to lift a ban from 1954 that prohibits:

... personal introductory service, marriage bureau, lonely hearts club, or other business of a like nature from operating within the city limits ...

This means online dating websites can now operate along with matchmaking services, but escort services would still not be allowed in Santa Monica. The newly allowed businesses would still require a police permit and criminal background checks though.

The CatholicMatch forums are a popular place for members to communicate about a variety of topics. On average every day there are 6,000 readers, 500 posters and from 1,000 to 2,000 posts. Well, a new community support forum has now been added to the list of topics. Here members can search and ask the staff any questions about the dating service. This includes topics ranging from "How To" questions, to resolving technical glitches some members may be experiencing.

CatholicMatch have also started to introduce forum moderators handpicked right from the CatholicMatch community. Their main job will be to answer any questions new members may have, and to moderate the different topics.

The final piece of forum news includes a new voting system for individual forum posts. This allows readers to give a "thumbs-up" or a "thumbs-down" to a particular post. This feature is designed to help the new moderators find any post that could cause some trouble or complaints.

To find out more about this dating site, read our review of CatholicMatch.com.

PerfectMatch will officially launch their new video profiles for members on October 20, 2010. For this new dating tool, they have partnered with Dating On Demand which allows PerfectMatch.com members too be featured on television along with other singles in your area. Dating On Demand services are available across the United States through "Cox Cable" and Comcast Digital Cable".

So how do you get your profile on Dating on Demand? All you need to do is attend a free Perfectmatch / Dating On Demand video event which are held in major cities across the United States (for an up to date event calendar visit Perfectmatch). During these events, the professional production crew will video tape your interview where you are answering questions about who you are and the type of person you are looking for. Once completed, your 2 to 5 minute video will be edited, produced and featured on Perfectmatch and Dating On Demand at no cost to you. If you cannot make it to a video event then you can create your own video and send it to Perfectmatch for review. All PerfectMatch's Dating On Demand videos are professional produced and linked to the members Duet Compatibility System results.

For more information on this dating site, please read our PerfectMatch.com review.

AshleyMadison.com has now opened their affair website to married men and women in the United Kingdom. For those of you who haven't heard of this site before it is described as a traditional dating site but for people who are already married. For UK members it costs £49 for 100 credits. With these credits members can email someone for 5 credits, chat in real-time for another 30 credits and send a virtual gift from 20 to 50 credits.

Apparently there are plans to spend upwards of £10million in advertising if Ashley Madison can get their ads approved by the Advertising Standards Authority. With this type of marketing budget Ashley Madison expects to have 1 million UK members in 3 months.

For more on this story read TNT Magazine.