Europe Falls in Love with E-Dating
Wednesday, 9. February 2005 - 10:29 pm
BUSINESS WEEK — Feb 8 — Online dating, virtually unknown on the
continent five years ago, is taking off in a big way, even as the
phenomenon seems to be slowing on the other side of the Atlantic.
Revenues of the leading European dating Web sites
will more than double over the next five years, from $200 million to
$450 million, predicts Paris-based analyst Olivier Beauvillain,
Jupiter Research. Sales in the U.S. are expected to grow only 9% this
year, to $515 million. The region's biggest online dating service is Meetic.com, a private company launched three years ago by Web entrepreneur Marc Simoncini. The site is set to hit 10 million members around St. Single's Day and will book around $55 million in sales this year. FULL ARTICLE @ BUSINESS WEEK
Mark Brooks: See you in Prague
9. December 2005 - 10:22 am
A word of caution I have found zombies profiles. Some I suspect as being planted to induce people to take out paying subscriptions