Friday, September 30, 2016

article: A Psychologist's Guide to Online Dating

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/dateline/article/2016/09/30/psychologists-guide-online-dating
Why learning about my DNA might be the answer to my dating woes
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/dateline/article/2016/09/30/why-learning-about-my-dna-might-be-answer-my-dating-woes

HOAX ALERT! Today: DNA Romance
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/09/hoax-alert-dna-romance.html

Suggested USA FTC investigate Instant Chemistry Inc. and Gemetrics for SCIENTIFIC FRAUD, misleading statements, false claims, overpromises.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/suggested-usa-ftc-investigate-instant.html


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The key to long-lasting romance, COMPATIBILITY is: STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests".
High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.
Without offering the NORMATIVE 16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.


The Online Dating Industry does not need a 10% improvement, a 50% improvement or a 100% improvement. It does need "a 100 times better improvement"


All other proposals are NOISE and perform as placebo.  

Security analyst says Yahoo!, Dropbox, LinkedIn, Tumblr: all popped by same gang

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/30/fiveperson_hacking_gang_claimed_behind_breaches_of_3bn_logins/

Please see:
 Security: You call it 'hacking.' I call it 'investigation'
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/16/you_call_it_hacking_i_call_it_investigation/

Employee data leaks from most of world’s biggest firms—and UK tops list (via ArstechnicaUK)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/09/employee-data-leaks-from-most-of-worlds.html


ALERT Hacktivist collective The Impact Team could be targeting Twitter, Facebook and other giant sites
Like Match Group?

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/alert-hacktivist-collective-impact-team.html
 "Espionage is for economic interests, not terrorism"
article: What Exactly Are the USA NSA Hackers Trying to Accomplish?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/article-what-exactly-are-usa-nsa.html

ALERT Russian-speaking hackers breach 97 websites, many of them online dating ones.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/08/alert-russian-speaking-hackers-breach.html

Lovoo to Pay a Small Fine of Euros 1.2 Million To End Legal Proceedings After June 2016 Police Raid

http://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/it-medien/lovoo-flirt-app-kommt-mit-hoher-zahlung-davon/14626716.html
http://www.gruenderszene.de/allgemein/verfahren-lovoo-benjamin-bak-fake-profile
https://www.deutsche-startups.de/2016/09/29/lovoo-muss-millionen-zahlen/
http://globaldatinginsights.com/2016/09/30/lovoo-pay-e1-2m-fine-to-end-legal-proceedings-following-police-raid/

Please see:
New bunch of fresh and funny screenshots of EliteSingles USA (Affinitas GmbH)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/09/new-bunch-of-fresh-and-funny.html
A former employee of Affinitas GmbH. that says in a review they create fake profiles from inside?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/a-former-employee-of-affinitas-gmbh.html

Lovoo: Captain leaves the ship.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/06/lovoo-captain-leaves-ship.html

German Online Dating Market 2015 - 2016 via singleboersen-vergleich blog
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/09/german-online-dating-market-2015-2016.html

ALERT Russian-speaking hackers breach 97 websites, many of them online dating ones.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/08/alert-russian-speaking-hackers-breach.html

ALERT Hacktivist collective The Impact Team could be targeting Twitter, Facebook and other giant sites
Like Match Group?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/alert-hacktivist-collective-impact-team.html


*** Only way to sustain that huge revenue is creating fake profiles from inside to entice customers to subscribe. *** ???
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/only-way-to-sustain-that-huge-revenue.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/article-what-makes-match-groups.html

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Tinder Boost feature in 2016 same as Badoo in 2006, 10 years ago!



http://mashable.com/2016/09/28/tinder-trials-tinder-boost/
http://fortune.com/2016/09/28/tinder-boost-app-users/

Please notice Tinder is in big war with Badoo, and can not outperform it.
The mission of Tinder was to kill Badoo, but it seems Tinder is killing Match.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/09/tinder-4th-birthday.html

Please do not forget when the IAC Personals, now Match Group, bought OKCupid (5+ years ago) for an astronomical amount of money, the OKCupid team had the task to copycat Badoo, but they failed in that mission. IAC Personals backed Tinder instead (via Hatch Labs), as the copycat of Badoo.
But Tinder can not outperform Badoo (10+ years old site).
And Badoo also owns Bumble.
Match Group, parent company of Tinder, has a big debt of USD 1.2 Billion.
The Match Group is only a collection of old and obsolete online dating sites: Match, Meetic, Chemistry, OkCupid, LoveScout24 (FriendScout24), OurTime, HowAboutWe and many more!
Match Group does not know how to innovate in the Online Dating Industry. 


Tinder copycatted Badoo. Zoosk copycats Tinder with Lively.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/tinder-copycatted-badoo-zoosk-copycats.html


Match goes for Generation X, 30 - 50 years old users = "named: traditionals".   
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/09/match-goes-for-generation-x-30-50-years.html


Tinder’s newest app, Tinder Stacks, lets you swipe on anything!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/09/tinders-newest-app-tinder-stacks-lets.html


Hinge closes the door on casual dating to focus on serious relationships (via TechCrunch)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/09/hinge-closes-door-on-casual-dating-to.html

Badoo mysteries (part 3)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2011/06/badoo-mysteries-part-2-of-3_09.html

German Online Dating Market 2015 - 2016 via singleboersen-vergleich blog



www.singleboersen-vergleich.de/online-dating-markt-2015-2016.pdf
http://www.singleboersen-vergleich.de/news_einzel_2009/2016-09-27-online-dating-branchenreport-2015-2016.htm

Pamela Moucha, Henning Wiechers and Dirk Pflitsch had published German Online Dating Market 2015 - 2016 report.

Online dating sites for serious daters (Partnervermittlungen) dominate the market in revenue (Umsatz).

eDarling / EliteSingles is eHarmony copycat with more bells and whistles.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/09/elitesingles-is-eharmony-copycat-with.html
eHarmony, is a 16+ years old obsolete site and a HOAX, based on a big scientific fraud, only sustained by big marketing budget.
The Big Five normative test had been proven/revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model to assess/measure personality of persons.

Affinitas GmbH. (eDarling / EliteSingles) 2014 financials. Revenue and Net Loss? (Affinitas Phantom Share GmbH.)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/04/affinitas-gmbh-2014-financials-revenue_30.html

2016 Revenue in the range of Euros 60 Million. Net Profit in the range of Euros 1.3 Million?
Data obtained from
https://www.bundesanzeiger.de/ebanzwww/wexsservlet     Then search for Affinitas.


 
ElitePartner & Parship sold again in part!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/09/elitepartner-parship-sold-again-in-part.html
Both Parship and ElitePartner are 10+ years old obsolete sites and hoaxes based on Scientific frauds.
 
2014 Revenue in the range of Euros 62 Million. Net Profit in the range of Euros 13 Million.
Data obtained from
https://www.bundesanzeiger.de/ebanzwww/wexsservlet      Then search for Parship.


 
REPORT / PAPER: Who uses online dating sites in France? Who finds their partner this way?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/06/report-paper-who-uses-online-dating.html


Fraud with fake profiles / Police Raid on German Flirt Portal Lovoo
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/06/fraud-with-fake-profiles-police-raid-on.html

Some Online Dating Market Reports (January 2015)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/01/some-online-dating-market-reports.html


Lack Of Innovation & Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry.  

Please read: The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/the-8-tips-to-innovate-in-online-dating.html
 

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

AshleyMadison (Ruby Life Inc.) peak and decay on reboot!






https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/27/ashley-madison-we-thought-about-her-as-a-hollywood-star-gone-wrong

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ashleymadison.com

Bounce Rate: 68.80%
Daily Pageviews per Visitor: 1.36
Daily Time on Site: 2:26


article: Cyber Attacks review – where’s the big AshleyMadison reveal?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/09/article-cyber-attacks-review-wheres-big.html

AshleyMadison security protocols violated privacy laws, watchdog says
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/ashleymadison-security-protocols.html

AshleyMadison Hacking Scandal 1 Year Later
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/ashleymadison-hacking-scandal-1-year.html
 

AshleyMadison should close forever.

Ashley Madison admits using fembots to lure men into spending money
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/new-article-ashleymadison-threatened-to.html
It seems no one trust AshleyMadison any more because it seems they STILL use fembots. 

Cheaters will use Tinder instead. 

Hinge closes the door on casual dating to focus on serious relationships (via TechCrunch)



https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/27/hinge-closes-the-door-on-casual-dating-to-focus-on-serious-relationships/

PERHAPS HINGE CLOSED FOREVER. NO REBOOT

Screenshots from Hinge rebooting / part 1
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/09/screenshots-from-hinge-rebooting-part-1.html


The 3 milestone discoveries of the 2001 - 2010 decade for Theories of Romantic Relationships Development are:
I) Several studies showing contraceptive pills users make different mate choices, on average, compared to non-users. "Only short-term but not long-term partner preferences tend to vary with the menstrual cycle"
II) People often report partner preferences that are not compatible with their choices in real life. (Behavioural recommender systems or other system that learns your preferences are useless)
III) What is important in attracting people to one another may not be important in making couples happy. Compatibility is all about a high level on personality similarity between prospective mates for long term mating with commitment.

 


COMPATIBILITY is: STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests".  
 
WorldWide, there are over 5,000 -five thousand- online dating sites
but no one is using the 16PF5 (or similar) to assess personality of its members!
but no one calculates similarity with a quantized pattern comparison method!
but no one can show Compatibility Distribution Curves to each and every of its members!
but no one is scientifically proven!  No actual online dating site  is "scientifically proven" because no one can prove its matching algorithm can match prospective partners who will have more stable and satisfying relationships -and very low divorce rates- than couples matched by chance, astrological destiny, personal preferences, searching on one's own, or other technique as the control group in a peer reviewed Scientific Paper for the majority (over 90%) of its members.
but no one can show you a list of compatible persons like this:
( for a prospective male customer / sample but calculated with real values)
“Over 1,000,000 million women database, here is the list of the 12 more compatible with you. Notice that woman#1 is the most compatible with you but she could be more compatible with other men right now.
woman#01 is 95.58476277% compatible
woman#02 is 95.56224356% compatible
woman#03 is 95.52998273% compatible
woman#04 is 94.18354278% compatible
woman#05 is 93.00453871% compatible
woman#06 is 93.00007524% compatible
woman#07 is 92.99738452% compatible
woman#08 is 92.37945551% compatible
woman#09 is 92.29779173% compatible
woman#10 is 92.27114287% compatible
woman#11 is 92.19515551% compatible
woman#12 is 92.12249558% compatible”


The only way to revolutionize the Online Dating Industry is using the 16PF5 normative personality test, available in different languages to assess personality of members, or a proprietary test with exactly the same traits of the 16PF5 and expressing compatibility with eight decimals (needs a quantized pattern comparison method, part of pattern recognition by cross-correlation, to calculate similarity between prospective mates.)

High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.

Without offering the NORMATIVE 16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry

The Online Dating Industry does not need a 10% improvement, a 50% improvement or a 100% improvement. It does need "a 100 times better improvement".


All other proposals are NOISE and perform as placebo.

PAPER The Gamification User Types Hexad Scale




[PDF] The Gamification User Types Hexad Scale


Please see:
FT articles: Bank hiring: Wall St turns to machines to find better-behaved bankers & Making the grade at Deutsche Bank
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/09/ft-articles-bank-hiring-wall-st-turns.html


about article "Work Wanted: IBM Watson program offers personality insights to employees"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/about-article-work-wanted-ibm-watson.html

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/textdater-personality-mining-platform.html
 

Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Emotions and Personality in Personalized Systems (EMPIRE) 2016
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/09/proceedings-of-4th-workshop-on-emotions.html


Personality Based Recommender Systems are the next generation of recommender systems because they perform far better than Behavioural ones (past actions and pattern of personal preferences) 
 

Which is the RIGHT approach to innovate in the Personality Based Recommender Systems Arena?
 
The same approach to innovate in the Online Dating Industry == 16PF5 test or similar to assess personality traits and a new method to calculate similarity between quantized patterns.

Online Dating sites have very big databases, in the range of 20,000,000 (twenty million) profiles, so the Big Five model or the HEXACO model are not enough for predictive purposes. That is why I suggest the 16PF5 test instead and another method to calculate similarity.

High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.
Without offering the NORMATIVE 16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.
 
 

 
The Online Dating Industry does not need a 10% improvement, a 50% improvement or a 100% improvement. It does need "a 100 times better improvement"

All other proposals are NOISE and perform as placebo.

Monday, September 26, 2016

EliteSingles is eHarmony copycat with more bells and whistles.

http://appadvice.com/app/elitesingles-dating-for-single-professionals/990571557




Please remember:
EliteSingles in only a copycat of eHarmony. Nothing more than that!
eHarmony, is a 16+ years old obsolete site and a HOAX, based on a big scientific fraud, only sustained by big marketing budget.
The Big Five normative test had been proven/revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model to assess/measure personality of persons.

EliteSingles (Affinitas GmbH.) Silly Global Rebrand WITH NO INNOVATION!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/elitesingles-affinitas-gmbh-silly.html


A prospective client will not perceive eDarling/EliteSingles sites as better, superior or different than eHarmony's ones.
eHarmony Inc. is 3+ bigger than Affinitas GmbH. (in dating products)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/04/eharmony-inc-is-3-bigger-than-affinitas.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/only-way-to-sustain-that-huge-revenue.html


 
OPW Interview With Affinitas New CEO, Jeronimo Folgueira
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/03/opw-interview-with-affinitas-new-ceo.html

Affinitas GmbH. 2014 financials. Revenue and Net Loss? (Affinitas Phantom Share GmbH.)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/04/affinitas-gmbh-2014-financials-revenue_30.html


Affinitas GmbH. wanting to be acquired by Match Group (MTCH) ? I doubt.
eDarling/EliteSingles are only copycats of eHarmony.


GDI Meets CEO Of Thriving Premium Dating Brand EliteSingles
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/09/gdi-meets-ceo-of-thriving-premium.html


Emma, Simon: Had Folgueira said that or you invented the phrase? Are you in their payroll also?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/emma-simon-had-folgueira-said-that-or.html
 

EliteSingles USA redesign. Went green. And EliteSingles new dating app.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/elitesingles-usa-redesign-went-green.html

 
Shamrock: Affinitas GmbH. painting it ALL green?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/06/shamrock-affinitas-gmbh-painting-it-all.html 


New bunch of fresh and funny screenshots of EliteSingles USA (Affinitas GmbH)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/09/new-bunch-of-fresh-and-funny.html

Sunday, September 25, 2016

Tinder 4th Birthday



http://socialbarrel.com/happy-4th-birthday-tinder-infographic/107002/

Please notice Tinder is in big war with Badoo, and can not outperform it.
The mission of Tinder was to kill Badoo, but it seems Tinder is killing Match.

Badoo 10 years anniversary. Another new redesign?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/09/badoo-10-years-anniversary-another-new.html
Tinder’s newest app, Tinder Stacks, lets you swipe on anything!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/09/tinders-newest-app-tinder-stacks-lets.html

Perhaps there is an internal war between Tinder and Match App.
If Tinder is cannibalizing Match and Match Group now wants to promote more Match App and not much Tinder because Tinder is not monetizing as expected?

Please do not forget when the IAC Personals, now Match Group, bought OKCupid (5+ years ago) for an astronomical amount of money, the OKCupid team had the task to copycat Badoo, but they failed in that mission. IAC Personals backed Tinder instead (via Hatch Labs), as the copycat of Badoo.
But Tinder can not outperform Badoo (10+ years old site).
And Badoo also owns Bumble.

Match Group, parent company of Tinder, has a big debt of USD 1.2 Billion.
The Match Group is only a collection of old and obsolete online dating sites: Match, Meetic, Chemistry, OkCupid, LoveScout24 (FriendScout24), OurTime, HowAboutWe and many more!
Match Group does not know how to innovate in the Online Dating Industry.
  


Match goes for Generation X, 30 - 50 years old users = "named: traditionals".  
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/09/match-goes-for-generation-x-30-50-years.html

Saturday, September 24, 2016

New bunch of fresh and funny screenshots of EliteSingles USA (Affinitas GmbH)

copycat of eHarmony Inc.













EliteSingles in only a copycat of eHarmony. Nothing more than that!
eHarmony, is a 16+ years old obsolete site and a HOAX, based on a big scientific fraud, only sustained by big marketing budget.
The Big Five normative test had been proven/revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model to assess/measure personality of persons.


A prospective client will not perceive eDarling/EliteSingles sites as better, superior or different than eHarmony's ones.



Testing the site with a dummy very tall woman (6' 11" or taller in heigth, the upper limit you can choose)
Some suggested matches are 7' or taller.
Suggested matches are very very tall men!


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Height_in_sports (see Basketball)
 The average American male is 5 ft 9.3 in (1.76 m) and 99% are 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) or shorter.
 Yet, the average player in the National Basketball Association (NBA) is listed at 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m).

https://www.verywell.com/average-height-for-a-man-statistics-2632137

Please see also:


Emma, Simon: Had Folgueira said that or you invented the phrase? Are you in their payroll also?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/emma-simon-had-folgueira-said-that-or.html
 

EliteSingles USA redesign. Went green. And EliteSingles new dating app.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/elitesingles-usa-redesign-went-green.html
EliteSingles USA: distribution ADULT men over 6' 6" tall (198.12 cm)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/elitesingles-usa-distribution-adult-men.html

 

EliteSingles UK, tallest men in the world
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/01/elitesingles-uk-tallest-men-in-world.html
A new bunch of screenshots from EliteSingles UK.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/a-new-bunch-of-screenshots-from.html

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/02/it-is-out-of-control.html
 
Lovoo: Captain leaves the ship.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/06/lovoo-captain-leaves-ship.html

Last May 2016, I suggested USA FTC investigate several online dating sites for misleading statements, false claims, overpromises.
Like Match, eHarmony, Zoosk, OkCupid, EliteSingles (Affinitas GmbH.) copycat of eHarmony, Tinder and others.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/suggested-usa-ftc-investigate-several.html


FT article: Unsealed papers in VW scandal reveal panic among engineers
The regulators soon discovered what appeared to be “a second set of commands” — one set for being on the road, another for test conditions.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/09/ft-article-unsealed-papers-in-vw.html

Friday, September 23, 2016

Tinder’s newest app, Tinder Stacks, lets you swipe on anything!



https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/21/tinders-newest-app-tinder-stacks-lets-you-swipe-on-anything/

Tinder offers "social discovery, gamification, location and messaging features." same as Facebook perhaps.
but can not monetize as expected.
Perhaps there is an internal war between Tinder and Match App.
If Tinder is cannibalizing Match and Match Group now wants to promote more Match App and not much Tinder because Tinder is not monetizing as expected?

Tinder tried to be the next .... Facebook (Forbes saga).
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/10/a-year-ago-tinder-tried-to-be-next.html

Tinder will use Spotify to show your dates your favorite music
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/09/tinder-will-use-spotify-to-show-your.html

Tinder in inside war with new Match App.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/37421585/tinder-boss-we-dont-get-distracted-by-the-competition


Please do not forget when the IAC Personals, now Match Group, bought OKCupid (5+ years ago) for an astronomical amount of money, the OKCupid team had the task to copycat Badoo, but they failed in that mission. IAC Personals backed Tinder instead (via Hatch Labs), as the copycat of Badoo.
But Tinder can not outperform Badoo (10+ years old site).
And Badoo also owns Bumble.


Match goes for Generation X, 30 - 50 years old users = "named: traditionals".   
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/09/match-goes-for-generation-x-30-50-years.html

 
Match Group data from Goldman Sachs 25th Annual Communacopia Conference
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/09/match-group-data-from-goldman-sachs.html

article "Would you really use Tinder to make business connections? Tinder CEO wants you to"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/09/article-would-you-really-use-tinder-to.html


Match Group, parent company of Tinder, has a big debt of USD 1.2 Billion.
The Match Group is only a collection of old and obsolete online dating sites: Match, Meetic, Chemistry, OkCupid, LoveScout24 (FriendScout24), OurTime, HowAboutWe and many more!
Match Group does not know how to innovate in the Online Dating Industry.