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EarningsGrindr's $130M Quarter Proves Users Pay Even When They're FuriousGrindr (GRND) posted $130 million in Q1 2026 revenue, up 38% year-on-year. Average paying users reached 1.4 million, nearly double the 750,000 subscribers the company had in 2023. Full-year guidance r…
PolicyCanadian Dating Operators Are Fighting the Wrong Fraud WarMore than 25% of fraudulent payment cases in Canada involve stolen credit cards and unauthorized charges, 32% higher than the global average of 19%. Nearly 12% of Canadian respondents reported experie…
PlatformsTinder's Astrology Mode Papers Over a Structural Engagement GapTinder Canada's Astrology Mode campaign generated over 770,000 influencer impressions and more than 24,000 engagements in its initial wave across eight Canadian creators. The rollout expanded from mod…
The DataGen Z Says It Wants Authentic Dating. The Business Model Disagrees.64% of young singles say emotional honesty is what dating needs most; 73% report feeling a stronger connection when they can be fully themselves. Both Match Group (MTCH) and Bumble (BMBL) have seen su…
Platforms79% of Gen Z Avoids Dating Apps. That's a Product Problem.79% of US Gen Z respondents, including college students, reported avoiding regular use of dating apps, per a 2023 Axios study. Match Group (MTCH) reported 15.9 million paying users in Q3 2024, down sl…
PeopleRascoff Revived the Internship Big Tech Cut: 30,000 for 27 SpotsMore than 30,000 people applied for 27 internship positions at Match Group (MTCH), producing an acceptance rate of 0.09%. The share of 21-to-25-year-olds at large public tech firms dropped from 15% in…
The DataMen Pay £40 a Date, Women £8. That Gap Is the Industry's Risk.Men on major dating platforms pay up to £40 per date, five times what women pay for the same subscription tier, per analytics firm PlayersTime. Male users average 5 dates annually versus 27 for women;…
EarningsMatrimony.com Outgrew Its Revenue. Match Still Can't Crack India.Matrimony.com's Q4 FY26 net profit rose 18.7% year-on-year to ₹9.7 crore (approximately £750,000), while revenue grew 7.8% to ₹116.8 crore (approximately £9.11 million). Profit climbed more than twice…
PlatformsHinge Bets Honesty Converts Gen Z Better Than AspirationHinge's "Can't Believe We Met on Hinge" campaign features seven real couples discussing emotional exhaustion and near-abandonment of the app before matching Gen Z reportedly makes up more than half of…
ProductDating Apps Built a Surveillance Economy. They'll Own It.Dating app market reached 350 million global users and over $6 billion in revenue in 2025. Most major platforms allow full account creation in under three minutes, with no meaningful identity verifica…
PolicyOfcom Starts the Clock: UK Dating Apps Have Until AprilDating platforms must submit illegal content and children's risk assessments to Ofcom between April and July 2026, with record-keeping duties current by July 2026. Category 1 and 2 services, a classif…
PlatformsTantan Moves to Singapore and Calls It a Rebrand. It's an Exit.Tantan, acquired by Momo for $735M in 2018 , has relocated its global headquarters from China to Singapore and launched a rebrand on 14 May 2025. The new positioning targets "intentional casual dating…
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