Dating app Bumble has launched a new series of videos catering to countries within the Asian-Pacific (APAC) market, specifically India, Singapore, and The Philippines, to lessen the stigma surrounding its dating app premise: that women make the first move.

APAC countries, especially India, are fast-growing markets for dating apps as younger daters opt for technology over traditional dating methods like matchmaking. However, approaches to dating and matchmaking vary greatly between countries according to Lucille McCart, communications director for Bumble APAC said in an interview with The Drum. For example, religion and religious customs are more important in Singapore and the Philippines compared to markets like Australia and New Zealand.

As a result, Bumble has launched new videos catering to specific markets. The videos for Singapore and the Philippines are called “It Starts With Hello,” designed to create more levels of comfort for women starting a chat over the app. “In Singapore, 87% of people surveyed believed that men should take the lead and only 7% said that this is what is expected of women. Things are slowly changing in this regard, and Bumble is here to advocate for further progress,” McCart told The Drum.

Singles on Tinder are turning to ChatGPT, a new app launched by OpenAI to create AI-designed messages.

Once Tinder users match with someone, many are turning to ChatGPT for an opening message based on their shared interests, according to Mashable. ChatGPT then generates an original opening message, which the user can copy and paste to get the conversation going. One longtime user said that he used ChatGPT to generate a poem for a woman he was messaging, which captured her attention when she admitted that nobody had ever written a poem for her before.

Singles on Tinder are revealing this new dating app strategy over TiKTok according to Mashable, and it’s working for them. The caption for the dater who used the poem to capture the attention of his date posted a video of his strategy, declaring the service to be the “future of Tinder.”

OkCupid recently surveyed its users regarding their attitudes about dating going into 2023, finding that singles are more interested in open relationships and discussions about sex.

OkCupid had nearly 10 billion responses to matching questions in 2022 which revealed what singles will be looking for in 2023.

In addition to the pandemic’s impact on dating habits in general, younger daters are driving conversation around mental health, sober dating, and attitudes towards relationships and sex, according to OkCupid’s blog. Open relationships have been around for a while, but now young daters are challenging the stigma that has always been attached to them. Over the summer, OkCupid found that there was a 26 percent increase in mentions of “ENM” or “ethical non-monogamy” compared to the beginning of 2022, and a 42 percent increase compared to last summer.

Attitudes towards open relationships have shifted globally – with 30 percent of OkCupid users saying they would be interested in an open relationship (about 8.5 million singles), with Gen Z and Millennial daters being the most interested in ENM. The numbers are highest among European daters, with 49 percent of singles in Spain saying they would consider an open relationship, 46 percent in Switzerland, 40 percent in the Netherlands, 39 percent in Germany, and 37 percent in Italy. Brazil, Australia, and Canada had 35 percent, 34 percent and 31 percent of users interested in open relationships, respectively.

Dating app Bumble recently surveyed its users to get a clearer picture of what singles are looking for as we head into the New Year, and found that attitudes are shifting when it comes to gender, sex, and work-life balance.

Surveying 14,000 of its users, Bumble’s findings point to some major shifts taking place in the dating world, notably around work-life balance. Workaholism is no longer prized, especially among younger daters who prefer to make time for breaks and leisure. More than half of all respondents said they are actively creating more space for rest, and 13 percent said they would no longer date someone with a very demanding job.

The pandemic’s effect on the workplace and peoples’ ability to keep working from home has also shifted attitudes about who to date. Thirty -three percent of respondents around the world say they are now more open to travel and cultivate a relationship with someone who doesn’t live in the same city.

Tinder announced the launch of its newest feature Relationship Goals, offering users more clarity and insight into what potential matches are looking for.

Relationship Goals will be part of the user’s profile, where they can display their dating goals. Some of the choices offered in the dropdown box include whether they’re looking for a “long-term partner,” “long-term, but open to short-term,” “short-term, but open to long,” “short-term fun,” “new friends” or “still figuring it out,” according to Tech Crunch.

Each description comes with an added emoji and is displayed as a highlighted banner at the top of the user’s profile, above the “About Me” section. According to Tech Crunch, Tinder will also offer weekly prompts to users asking if their relationship goals have changed and to make that change on their profiles for more clarity and transparency, an acknowledgement that attitudes and goals shift over time.

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Dating app Bumble hopes to share more positivity over its app with the launch of its new feature Compliments.

According to Tech Crunch, Compliments lets a user write a compliment to another user, even before they match. The recipient will be notified of an unread compliment when they log in to the app, putting it front and center. Each user is allowed one message per day to send in the Compliments feature.

To send someone a Compliment, users can look through a person’s profile and see what they would like to message about. The Compliment can be sent on whatever strikes a chord – something they wrote in their bio, a profile prompt response, or anything else. When the user has a Compliment in mind, they can click on the yellow icon at the bottom left corner of a profile (with a heart inside of a speech bubble), and a text box will open where the Compliment can be written. There is a limit of 150 characters per Compliment.