eHarmony

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eHarmony

eHarmony is the recipient of the Editor's Top Pick - Match System award for 2019. This dating service is accessible from their website and dating apps (on iOS and Android) and is one of the premier services known for their automated matchmaking system. They have never waivered from their core principles in matching in almost the 20 years that they have been in business. They believe in their service and that is why they offer a 3 month guarantee that you will find your match.

Online dating company eHarmony will be introducing a new feature to try and prevent its members from ghosting each other on the site.

According to an exclusive in Yahoo! Finance, the anti-ghosting feature is a chat bot which uses A.I. technology to assess activity between members, as well as pulling information from profiles to help encourage conversation. If the feature notes that you and a match were messaging for several days or weeks and then stopped, it will prompt each of you with a message like “hey, this person stopped talking to you. Say something.”

The chat bot also provides specific questions based on the information it can gather from each of your profiles. For instance, if the chat bot notices your match likes certain TV shows, or old school jazz music, the chat bot will prompt you to ask her about her interests. For example, it might say “ask her about Game of Thrones,” encouraging you to not only message your match but provide you with a conversation starter.

Starting Friday November 9^th eHarmony members can get 20% off any subscription upgrade. The sale lasts for 5 days and ends in the late evening of Tuesday November 13^th. It also is only available in the United States.

With this sale, the discount is automatically applied when you use the code below. Depending on the term of the subscription you select, you can save over $40.

To obtain the 20% discount use the code: JOIN20

New and existing eHarmony members can take advantage of this sale. if you have not joined eHarmony before all you need to do is visit eHarmony.com and create an account. You can do this by connecting your Facebook account or by using your email address. Once you have logged in you can then create your profile and take the personality questionnaire. The whole process will take about 30 minutes to finish. The length of time takes longer than most other dating services. This is because eHarmony wants to truly understand what type of person you are and what your ideal match would be based not only what you want, but what is most compatible with your personality. Once your profile is complete you will then receive your first selection of matches (this happens daily). At this point you can review your matches profiles and photos to determine if you would like to contact any of them. If you do then at this point, you will need to purchase a subscription which are available anywhere from a 1 month term up to 12 months.

For more details about this dating service which specializes in finding it's members long-term relationships, you read our review of eHarmony.

Love is in the air for ProSiebenSat.1 and eHarmony. The German broadcaster has purchased the LA-based dating service through its newly formed e-commerce division, NuCom Group. The company plans to merge eHarmony (along with Compatible Partners, an eHarmony owned same sex dating service) with its own online dating platform, Parship. The parties agreed not to disclose the details of the transaction.

“Creating growth and leveraging synergies are key elements of our strategy. This acquisition is an excellent fit. Bringing these two strong brands together will immediately create a world leading online matchmaking company,” ProSiebenSat.1 CEO Max Conze said in a statement.

Parship is one of the most popular dating platforms in the German-speaking and Benelux regions. NuCom Group has developed the company into one of the most successful properties in its portfolio since acquiring a majority stake for €100 million in 2016. Like eHarmony, Parship is focused on long-term relationships and uses a compatibility algorithm based on a comprehensive questionnaire to match users in its database. Parship and sister brand ElitePartner is expected to have 2 million new registrations this year while eHarmony expects 2.8 million.

Online dating revolutionized the way we meet and is seen worldwide as a modern approach to finding love - but according to a recent study from the University of Oxford’s Oxford Internet Institute (OII), the experience of online dating is not nearly as progressive as the technology is.

Researchers at the OII analyzed 10 years of eHarmony UK user data to find out how gender norms and social attitudes have evolved over the last decade. The study, Computational Courtship: Understanding the Evolution of Online Dating through Large-scale Data Analysis, reveals their surprising conclusion: little has changed, and what has is not for the better.

Traditional gender roles continue to dictate how men and women connect online. The study found that men are 30 percent more likely than women to initiate conversation on a dating service. The number has actually increased over time, from six percent in 2008 to 30 percent in 2018. When women do initiate, the response rate drops by 15 percent.

It is another long weekend which means eHarmony has a good promotion on. 😁

Starting Wednesday August 29^th till the evening on Sunday September 2^nd, 2018 eHarmony is offering 50% off a 3 month subscription. This is a savings of just over $75 (3 month plan regular price is $155.70). A 3 month subscription is eHarmony's most popular option. A coupon code is required to receive the discount. It is:

Code: JOIN

New and existing eHarmony users (who do not have a subscription already) can take advantage of this discount. All you need is an eHarmony members account. Once you have logged into eHarmony, I would then recommend taking the personality questionnaire. When it is completed (takes 30 mins on average) you will be sent your first batch of matches. I would then review those matches to see if one or more members spark your interest. If any do, I would then suggest the upgraded membership.

Like with other subscription dating services, only upgraded members can communicate with each other. This is why these type of promotions are so popular, especially on holiday weekends when more people have time to try out an online dating service.

For more about this dating service, please check out our eHarmony review.