Fernando Ardenghi thinks behavioral matching on dating sites doesn’t work. To support his argument he’s put together a list of academic papers supporting his belief that the dating industry needs to implement the 16PF5 Questionnaire instead. A few weeks ago I went to Dallas to spend some...

In celebration of the single mother, Match.com has released a list of the ‘Top 10 Cities for Dating Single Moms‘ on its official blog Up To Date. Results from a recent study by Match.com showed that single parents in the US are dating more (21%) compared to singles without children (16%). An...

Research and infographic powerhouse OkCupid has a new story that looks into, you guessed it, sex. Some of the graphics are interactive, featuring sliders, clickable menus and zoomable datasets. Relationship duration, sexual proclivities and of course a perennial favorite, per capital GDP vs. portion...

Dating sites are slowly warming up to the idea that mining member data can lead to striking insights about behavior, trends and demographics. Speaking of member data: We here at Adult FriendFinder decided to conduct a tournament of our own, based on our area of expertise: penis size.  We took the...

Match.com called on renowned biological anthropologist Dr. Helen Fisher, Professor Stephanie Coontz and University of Binghamton’s Institute of Evolutionary Studies to help Matchdesign a comprehensive study of all aspects of the single life.  What they didn’t know was that the findings...

If you work for a paywall site — or market memberships, subscriptions, or paid content — you won’t want to miss this Thursday’s webinar from WhichTestWon.com’s sister publication, Subscription Site Insider: Best Subscription Marketing A/B Tests of 2010 — 7...

According to the The latest OKCupid blog post, if you are on a big dating site and aren’t white, your dating life is pretty bleak. This is one reason why niche dating sites are great for latino’s, asians, blacks and other minorities. Its 70 degrees out in Boston and I feel ridiculous...

Google’s Marissa Meyer on how much credit card Companies know about us. I read the other week that credit card companies know with 98% accuracy two years before that you’re going to get divorced – that’s crazy. News of this came about last year when Visa’s data-mining capabilities...

Newly launched dating site Soul2Match uses a computer program to calculate the odds of people being soulmates based on their facial features. Soul2Match match faces, or really what’s behind the faces. Specifically, people’s characteristics and emotions. Soul2Match analyses...

Fabrice Le Parc and SmartDate are all over the place lately. Fabrice is a former ABC Bachelorette contestant from Paris who started Smartdate.com in 2010. The site has quickly grown to over 1.2 million members. Snip: A new survey just released by Smartdate.com discovered that men with a first...