10 Stories Not To Miss On GDI This Week
- We Interview Mapping Company iGeolise, Who Want To Bring Travel Time To The Online Dating Search – The London-based company has built a platform that allows users of a website or app to filter search results by travel time, rather than distance.
- OkCupid’s Compatibility Questions Put To The Test In New Video Series – Created by Emmy-winning creative studio The Skin Deep, the videos test OkCupid’s compatibility questions in a live setting – singles trading questions in filmed one-on-one conversations.
- London Student Guilty Of Scamming Four Men In £100,000 Fraud Gets Over Two Years In Jail – Grace Akintaro, 24, targeted seven men through Match.com, stealing photos from someone online and pretending to be a woman named Amanda Jenson.
- This App Scans Dating Sites To Find Lookalikes Of Celebrities & People You Know – Dating.ai lets you search through the databases of various online dating services to find people who look like certain celebrities, or people you know.
- Match.com Preps Release Of New Stories Feature – The new release takes inspiration from the hugely popular stories features on Instagram and Snapchat.
- Tantan Will Monetise Later This Year After Closing $70m Series D – Tantan will release a VIP membership in Q3 of 2017, the company’s CEO Wang Yu said this week.
- Australians Spend $80m On Dating Services Every Year – But this is just a fraction of what they spend on the entire process of dating annually, which totals $11.65bn, according to a new report from ING Direct.
- Over 1.6m People Ceased New Relationships Due To Brexit, Says New eHarmony Data – Conducted by ICM in March 2017, the dating site found that 3.4% of people said Brexit was a key factor in them deciding to stop seeing someone.
- Momo Signs Music Industry Deals To Find Future Stars On Its Livestreaming Service – Called the Momo Music Plan, the new program will see users of the location-based Chinese app vote to choose a shortlist of aspiring singers who currently broadcast live on Momo’s streaming service.
- Clikd Ads Ask London Singles To Discover The Person Behind The Photo As Dating App Officially Launches – The campaign coincides with the official release of the app on iOS and Android, after soft-launching the dating app earlier this year.
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