Popular dating app Tinder has provided some insight into how its algorithm decides which potential matches it surfaces to users – and it’s no longer an ‘Elo score’ based on desirability, though it doesn’t sound too dissimilar. The Match Group-owned platform doesn’t hide the fact that it used to rank people based on how desirable […]
Courtship, now known as dating, has been happening since the beginning of time and has drastically changed over the last few decades. Long gone are the days of parents arranging meeting between family friends since technology has now enabled everyone to become a serial dater. Move over Match, OKCupid and eHarmony, dating apps have arrived […]
Tinder‘s new video feature, Loops, is rolling out globally, following testing in Canada, Sweden and a small number of other markets. The feature enables users to upload two-second, looping videos to their profile within the popular dating app. Initially announced in April, tests showed that users who added a Loop to their profile saw their […]
Facebook is adding a dating layer to its main mobile app, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced during the company’s F8 developer conference keynote in San Jose, California. The features are a long time coming for the 14-year-old social network, which has allowed users to broadcast whether they’re single or in a relationship since it first went […]
Manchester City have agreed a new multi-year partnership with Tinder, the world’s most popular app for meeting new people. A giant City-branded blimp soared over Manchester to mark the beginning of the relationship, whilst Tinder will also switch its colours across its social platforms to sky blue as they show their support for Pep Guardiola’s […]
Every swipe on Tinder represents the possibility of meeting someone new and interesting, and starting something epic – an epic friendship, a crazy adventure or an epic love story. The possibilities are endless and quite literally in the palm of your hand. Tinder’s new digital film brings this world of possibilities alive. This latest Tinder […]
In a UK and ROI first, Domino’s is leveraging Tinder’s new chatbot to help singletons find a date. Enter Dom Juan, the digital love guru. Appearing as a normal profile, this thumb-stopping chatbot is a chat-up line expert who wants you to swipe right. Dom Juan will start to help as soon as you’ve matched […]
Netflix was the world’s top earning non-game mobile app in 2017, according to SensorTower’s new year-end report, with Tinder finishing second. Netflix saw gross subscriber revenue of approximately $510m last year according to the report, representing a 138% increase or about 2.4 times the $215m users spent in the app during 2016. Netflix was also […]
Bumble, a dating service in which females make the first move, is introducing a spin-off variant enabling members to forge professional connections ala LinkedIn. Bumble Bizz emulates the same Tinder-esque swiping action of its progenitor, enabling women to forge ahead with bolstering their business contacts by building their own contacts list. Launching the new tool […]
A recent research has shown just how pervasive dating apps like Tinder, Okcupid, Bumble, Happn and Grindr have become: more than a third (37 percent) of UK smartphone owners have either found love online or know someone who has, while one in twelve (8 percent) now use dating apps. Around a quarter of those UK […]