ParshipMeet Group

Online dating company eHarmony, who built its reputation for more serious daters, was recently acquired by German media company ProSeibenSat.1. The media company are the producers behind “Married at First Sight,” and have already expanded beyond television with the acquisition of Parship Elite Group, an online dating platform for long-term relationships similar to eHarmony.

It left many wondering what future plans were for eHarmony, which has seen competition lately from apps like Tinder and OkCupid, and how Parship fits into the mix.

Online Personals Watch recently interviewed Tim Schiffers, the CEO of Parship Elite Group about the acquisitions and Parship’s future plans. Schiffers said Parship plans to bring eHarmony to its platform instead of offering competing services. “We have invested a lot into our technical setup over the past few years and are happy to harness synergies in that area.”

For the first half of February in celebration of Valentine's Day eHarmony is offering 15% off of membership subscriptions when you use a coupon code. It starts Tuesday, January 30^th and runs to Friday, February 15^th.

The discount will be automatically applied when you use the code below. Depending on the term of the subscription you select, you can save over $35.

Promotional code: VALENTINESDAY

This deal is available to new and existing eHarmony users. If you are a new user you can create a free account and fill in your profile. The whole process takes about 30 or so minutes since eHarmony does require to know a bit about what you like and dislike. eHarmony uses a matchmaking system to determine your highest quality matches and delivers these to you every day. They have spent years researching what makes couples compatible and take great pride in the number of marriages that have been the result of them matching people together. With your free account you can also view your matches at no cost but if you wish to message them you will be required to subscribe. Depending on the term length subscriptions can be purchased for less than $20 a month.

For more on this online dating service which can be accessed from their website or dating apps, you read our eHarmony review.

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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.

MeetMe Battles

The Meet Group, a portfolio of brands in the mobile social networking and entertainment space, is rolling out a new feature called Battles on its MeetMe and Skout apps.

“Battles brings an exciting competitive dynamic to Live, and we are thrilled to bring this new feature to our users,” said Geoff Cook, CEO of The Meet Group. “We believe that the addition of Battles will contribute to our growing video revenue run-rate, which exceeded $62 million annualized, based on the month of November, up from the $55 million number we reported in October. Momentum in video revenue has continued into December, and this past weekend we achieved the highest video revenue day in our history.”

Battles is The Meet Group’s latest bid to harness the power of streaming video. The feature brings together two livestreamers and their audiences for a live showdown. The competitors can challenge each other in a variety of categories ranging from music, to dance, to comedy and more. Each battle lasts only a few minutes. The winner is the streamer who earns the most diamonds by receiving gifts from viewers during the battle.

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.