General News

Forbes has an article about how to find single millionaires online. There is not much new information here but they do mention several of the sites we have reviewed . This includes Sugardaddie.com and our award winner MillionaireMatch.com. The article does explain that more and more single millionaire's are using specialty online dating services than the more traditional matchmakers. Online sites cost on average $20 per month while a personal matchmaker may charge thousands of dollars for there services. Plus, with online dating you also have the convenience of logging in anytime and at work or home.

Check out the full article, How To Find A Millionaire (Or Billionaire) and for a list of are dating site reviews for wealthy singles go here.

Canada's Christian Community Online Website has a good article on the Christian online dating scene. It gives a general overview and what Christian singles can expect when joining a Christian niche dating site compared to a general dating service like Match.com or Yahoo. The article also explores the over saturated online dating site market blaming the fact that companies think it's easy to market and create a dating site.

ChristianCafe.com is also mentioned in this article with a few good quotes from Sam Moorcroft the president of this Christian dating service. Christian Cafe is the largest Christian niche dating site in the world and controls over a third of this market. You can find more information about Christian Cafe by reading our review.

The New York Times has had several interesting articles this past month related to online dating. This past week they published an article regarding the more popular match systems called Hitting It Off, Thanks to Algorithms of Love. The three main systems out there are from the dating sites eHarmony, Perfectmatch.com and Chemistry. The article goes on and talks about some of the published statistics behind the matching systems, their companies advertising battles and the problems with these systems not being peer reviewed.

Match.com UK will be powering Freeads.co.uk new dating service. This deal will give Freeads users access to millions of singles already on Match.com and it will offer Match.com access to the million plus monthly unique visitors at Freeads.

Duncan Horton, Freeads.co.uk chief executive, commented:

For us partnering with a company of Match.com's calibre to launch our dating section is a huge coup. Rather than relying on our users to populate this new section for us we are able to hit the ground running by offering them access to the millions of singles already registered on Match.com.

This makes sense to me since it is extremely difficult to get a new dating service off the ground these days with all the competition. There was no mention of the cost for Freeads users but I am assuming it will be the same cost as signing up normally to Match.com UK's dating service.

For more information or you can read our Match Review (match.com).

This press release notes that the CEO and owner of The Penthouse Media Group Inc. (Marc Bell) will be giving a presentation regarding their acquisition of Various Inc. Various owns the FriendFinder Network. This presentation will take place at the Internet Dating Conference which in running from January 31 to February 1, 2008 and is located at the Miami Beach Convention Center.

For more information on the Conference visit the iDate2008 web site. This should be an interesting presentation for those of us in the dating industry. I hope they will post a video of it.

Reuters has a piece regarding some U.S. Rabbis who are using Jewish online dating services like JDate to help their single congregants. They are offering subscriptions in the hopes of them meeting someone from the Jewish Faith. The US Jewish community are concerned over their dwindling numbers. Some people have estimated that half of the Jews who married in the United States have married someone from a different faith.

Currently Rabbi Donald Weber of Marlboro, New Jersey and his wife (a rabbi in the liberal Reform Movement) have setup a fund and offer JDate subscriptions to anyone over the age of 18 and who are single, in their congregation.