Dating Pro Digest: Dating Apps Know What You Did; Match Group’s Livesteaming Feature On PoF And Twoo; Bumble’s Astrology-themed Singles Dinner

Nov 7, 2019
4 minutes to read

 

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Dating industry news digest for today: Dating apps know what you did last summer; Match Group launches live video across several platforms; Bumble hosts astrology-themed singles dinner so you can let the stars decide your fate.

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Dating apps know what you did last summer

A company called Datingroo, who gathers data, researches the market, studies social, gender and safety issues of various dating platforms, has published a study on the amount of information dating apps have access to.

They analyzed 10 most popular dating apps in the UK and found out that:

  • “100% of the tested apps request access to photos, media, and files stored on the smartphone;
  • 90% can modify and even delete content in the internal storage;
  • 80% access the phone´s location and wifi-connection;
  • 70% access contacts and accounts;
  • 60% know the identity of the user, their camera and phone status;
  • 50% of the apps have accessibility to the devices ID and call information;
  • 30% gain control over the microphone and can record audio files from it;
  • 10% are even allowed to send and receive SMS from the smartphone.”

See full article here

 

 

Match Group launches live video across several platforms

In its Q3 financial report, Match Group announced testing a live streaming feature through an unnamed third-party platform on Plenty of Fish and Twoo.

A Match Group spokesperson said live video is growing increasingly popular among younger audiences, has a proven monetisation model and is a valuable opportunity to drive higher engagement.

They also introduced video chat to Ablo, an early-stage app that randomly connects users from different countries. Their messaging interface runs an auto-translate feature to overcome the language barriers.

See full article here

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Bumble hosts astrology-themed singles dinner so you can let the stars decide your fate

Next week Bumble decided to host an astrology-themed singles dinner.

On 12 November their in-house astrologer Michele Knight will teach people the influence of stars and personality and how it can be used to find a compatible match.

Through the dinner, Michele will be reading ‘energies’ and reassign people to different seats if she feels that’s not a match.

Michele also provides with palm reading to find out what your future holds.

See full article here

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