Dave Evans

Spark Networks: No Love for LOV

Good point jbowyer, I've been blogging about the subscriber drop at LOV for years. American Singles has been losing tens of thousands of paying members every quarter for years. Decent article, happy to provide additional insight. Here's a tip, check out Frumster.com, which is for sale. Recent numbers, decent service, I'm just mentioning it because it came across my desk and looks like a decent deal.

LOV has been looking to sell for years, it will happen someday, just not sure when. Penthouse/Friendfinder was the deal of the year, that made sense. LOV is a fantastic brand but they have a lot of extra junk in the trunk that needs to be pruned.

Spark Networks, Other Dating Sites To Be Buried By MySpace?

As a dating industry blogger who built his first website in 1994, I feel I can comment on this with some level of authority. First, PlentyOfFish is not a web 2.0 company and Yahoo is not necessarily 1.0. Why do people keep using these useless terms? Markus knows how to make money advertising, but not much about relationships and matchmaking. This is fairly standard in the dating indsutry. The situation at Spark has always been interesting to watch, the back-stories about the founders, stock options and it's network of sites, of which 2-4 make up the lion's share of revenue and traffic are all common fodder for beer-fueled conversations, although cherry-picking at a bar is pretty unsavory.