18 posts categorized "Mysinglefriend"
MySingleFriend.com Unveils First TV Ad
THE DRUM - Sep 16 - The ad shows seven wingmen and women pitching their single friends to potential daters. Television personality and founder of MySingleFriend, Sarah Beeny, said: "Nobody has ever 'advertised' a single friend on television before.
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Sep 17, 2013 | Permalink | Comments (0)
UK Dating Sites Found Body To Clean Up Industry
MARKETING WEEK - Sep 9 - UK's leading dating sites including eHarmony, Guardian Soulmates, Match.com, MySingleFriend, Dating Factory, Lovestruck, FreeDating, are founding members of the Online Dating Association (ODA), a new industry initiative. Members of the ODA will sign up to a code of conduct which insists that members are transparent with consumers over pricing models, whether they are billed on a repeated basis, data privacy, and the authenticity of dating profiles on its site.
by Ronan Shields
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MySingleFriend.com Launches Singles Events
DAILY MAIL - Aug 22 - MySingleFriend.com, UK dating site where singles are recommended to potential love interests by friends, has launched a series of dating events (Date MySingleFriend) where singletons can bring a trusted wingman or woman along for an evening of dating and match making. Wingmen/women are responsible for filling out scorecards and taking note of good matches, leaving singletons more time to enjoy their dates.
by Bianca London
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Aug 22, 2013 | Permalink | Comments (1)
Top Dating Sites In UK
METRO.CO.UK - June 18 -
- £13.17 a month
Guardian Soulmates
- £16 a month
- £9.95 a month
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The 20 Most Useful Dating Websites
TELEGRAPH.CO.UK - May 10 - Online dating is now one of the most popular ways to meet a new partner and there are ~1400 sites in the UK alone.
Gay.com
Christian Connection - the largest, and longest established subscriber based UK Christian dating site.
Muddy Matches - For Single Farmers, Rural Singles, Equestrian Singles and Country Friends could be the place for you.
Lovestruck.com - for dates in your lunch hour.
Saga Connections - for people over 50.
Dating Vegetarian
Flirtbox
Love Arts - for singles who love arts
Dating For Parents
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MySingleFriend Lets Users Create TV Ad For Single Friends
RADIOTIMES - Mar 12 - MySingleFriend lets friends try and pair off their friends on national TV. Users are encouraged to create and advert for their single friends. The person with the best sales pitch for their friend will be given a shot to do it on TV.
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Online Dating Sites Couple-up To Safeguard Industry Reputation
MARKETING WEEK - Jan 30 - eHarmony, Match.com and MySingleFriend are holding preliminary talks to establish a code of conduct to distance themselves from less reputable operators in the sector. Also involved in the process are Lovestruck and Christian Connection, other online dating brands are also in discussions but have declined to be publicly associated with the talks at present. It is also understood the long-established Association of British Introduction Agencies (ABIA) is also involved in the talks. The ABIA itself has proposed a code of practice for online introduction service providers, which is scheduled to come into effect this year.
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79% Of Girls Make The First Move Online
PRESS RELEASE - Jan 10 - New study of MySingleFriend's users reveals that 79% of girls are happy to make the first move online but 71% will leave boys hanging before returning texts. Only 29% of girls are happy to reply to dates texts immediately. 65% admitted to trying to get more information about a potential date by looking them up on Facebook before going on a date. MySingleFriend was created by TV presenter Sarah Beeny in 2005 and now has over 200,000 users in the UK. The site has also recently launched in Ireland at www.mysinglefriend.ie.
Love In The 21st Century
HERALD SCOTLAND - Feb 12 - With the online dating industry predicted to be worth £150M annually in the UK by 2014, it is big business. Eight years ago TV presenter Sarah Beeny set up the site Mysinglefriend.com, where singles are "recommended" to potential love interests by friends. It has now ~1M users and has recently launched in Ireland. Ottokar Rosenberger, UK manager at eHarmony.co.uk, said changes in society such as moving around more and not necessarily having strong social or family networks had helped contribute to the popularity of internet dating.
by Judith Duffy
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Sarah Beeny's Dating Website Seeks Suitors
INDEPENDENT.CO.UK - Aug 28 - MySingleFriend, an online dating website founded by the television presenter Sarah Beeny, has been put up for sale for up to £15M. First-round bids of between £10M and £15M were submitted earlier this month, primarily by rival online dating businesses, but some private equity firms are also interested. The site is unique in that subscribers must nominate a friend who will write a description of them – which, unlike other dating sites, means that a user's profile features both their own words and those of their friend. My Single Friend attracts 9K new singles a month from across the UK. It is on track to make underlying profits of about £1.5M this year.
by James Thompson
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Data Matches Daters
MARKETING WEEK - Aug 17 - As the internet dating market continues to grow, dating sites are employing increasingly sophisticated data analysis techniques to find the perfect partner for their users. OKCupid believes there's no such thing as one algorithm that works for everybody, putting its emphasis instead on a set of predictive questions. Plentyoffish claims it was the first dating site to introduce behavioral matchmaking. Markus Frind, CEO of Plentyoffish, explains: "We look at what you say when you complete your profile but, more importantly, we also look at what you do on the site."Sometimes the elements that people are not looking for in a date turn out to be their partners' most endearing features. This is why Mysinglefriend puts the onus on users to find matches on the site themselves. Lovestruck has two types of algorithm. When users first join the site, they will be matched with potential partners using Lovestruck's in-house algorithm based on interests, what they are looking for, age, location and so on. But when they start to use the site, that data is overridden by an IntroAnalytics matching algorithm which learns from the user's behaviour.
by Maeve Hosea
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Brits Don't Splash The Cash On Valentine's Day
DAILY STAR - Feb 12 - Less than one in 12 say they look forward to Valentine's Day and nearly three-quarters won't even bother sending a card. A survey by mysinglefriend.com shows just how unromantic Britain has become. 67% are on the lookout for "the one", while 40% admit to regularly sleeping with women on the first date. Almost all of those surveyed believe the lovers' day has become too commercialised while only 8% actually look forward to it.
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Internet Dating Industry Weekly News Jan 11th, 2010
This is the news for January 1st through January 11th, 2010. Here is the news we covered:
BeautifulPeople.com dumps 5,000 members
Niche dating is fueling growth, Australian market thrives
Cold weather heats up membership for AshleyMadison.com
CityDate launches SensualityDating.com for women
Online Dating Soars As Temperatures Plunge
BBC NEWS - Jan 7 - Mysinglefriend.com says visitors to its website soared by 55% on Tuesday alone, with its busiest time coming at 3pm rather than the traditional 10pm. Meanwhile rival site Singles365.com says its visitor numbers grew 27% across Tuesday and Wednesday compared with a year ago. "We can only put this down to the bad weather meaning more people are staying at home", says Singles365.com spokeswoman Katie Mowe. IllicitEncounters.com, a website which provides a platform for married people to conduct affairs, has gained 2,567 new members in the last six days, suggesting that January will be its busiest month ever. FULL ARTICLE @ BBC NEWS
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E-dating Goes Niche
METRO.CO.UK -- Feb 20 -- According to press agency Response Source, 7.8 million people in Britain went online to find their match last year, up a third on 2005. And "e-dating" became more specialised. Mysinglefriend.com, where people nominate their unattached chums, was one of the first niche markets. WooMe, is an online speed dating company, and LoopyLove is a social networking site for singletons. Then there is the slightly more risqué market. AshleyMadison.com is for people looking for 'extracurricular activity'. Sugardaddie.com is aimed at women looking for a man with that extra bulge where it matters most, the wallet. Launched in 2002, the site now has a database of 250,000 members and is growing at a rate of 4,000 a week.
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Love at First Site?
TELEGRAPH.CO.UK -- Oct 10 -- ''Everyone's at it," says a BBC producer. ''At lunchtime the gossip is quite incredible. People are amazed by the horizons that open up once they get on the net." We may be years behind New Yorkers (they've been at it for ages), but in Britain internet dating is now big and getting bigger. We are on the cusp of a major social change. One user's criteria are that women should be ''pretty and fun". He has been on so many dates that he keeps a spreadsheet of all the women he has taken out (17 and counting). Despairing of the internet, he has now signed up with a London introduction agency, Drawing Down the Moon, where the joining fee is £950. Mysinglefriend - friends, rather than the singletons themselves, write the rofiles. Telegraph.co.uk./dating - for Telegraph readers. Ivorytowers.net for graduates. Toyboywarehouse for women in their 40s and men in their 30s. Classicalpartners -agency/social club aimed at music lovers.
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Mark Brooks: I'm surprised Dating Direct has not wrapped up a distribution deal with The Telegraph. Looks like they're offering online dating internally. Is this wise or a mistake? Why? Your comments please.
Oct 11, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0)
The Dating Revolution Cleans up its Act
THE NEWSQUEST HERALD -- Jan 26 -- This month a survey - by a British subsidiary of Europe's largest dating service which has more than 1.5 million members - reported that 3.6 million Britons used online dating services last year. That represents 65% of the 5.4 million Britons who are looking for a relationship, according to parship.co.uk. Not only are more people looking online for love but the mechanics of doing so have also improved enormously. A few of the UK's top websites; Datingdirect promises "your next date is just a click away...", LoveandFriends provides "internet dating for thinking people", FriendsReunitedDating has "thousands looking for genuine relationships". Mysinglefriend.com has 15,000 members; a friend can register their single friend who then has a chance to look over, approve and add comments to the description before it goes live. Or a single person can nominate themselves, ask a friend to describe them and, again, approve the description and add any comments before it goes online.
Mark Brooks: The European online dating market is hot; growing at the same fast clip as the American market 2-3 three years ago.
Online Dating Experiences Major Surge
BRAND REPUBLIC -- Dec 21 -- Whatever it is the season for, online dating websites are soaring. Mysinglefriend.com, encourages friends to register their single friends who then get the opportunity to approve what their best-intentioned mates have written. Over the Christmas and New Year period DatingDirect.com, the biggest UK online dating website, is predicting a 50% increase in membership and is launching a four-week outdoor ad campaign employing 2,000 bus sides in more than 165 towns up and down the UK.
Mark Brooks: Europe is experiencing a similar online dating to the USA boom three years ago.
Dec 21, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0)