About Dating Industry Insights
Built by industry insiders. Written for operators, investors, and the people who run the platforms.
Dating Industry Insights is an independent publication covering the global online dating, matchmaking, and social discovery market. We publish daily news, analysis, opinion, and features for professionals working across the dating industry.
Our editorial is distinctive and opinionated. We don't just report what happened. We explain why it matters, who benefits, and what it means for the direction of the industry. We cover product launches, M&A activity, regulatory developments, earnings, executive moves, and the technology trends reshaping how people connect.
We publish for people who work in the dating industry and broader singles economy - not people who use dating apps. Our coverage is B2B industry intelligence, not consumer advice.
Our Team
Dating Industry Insights is run by a team of experienced dating industry professionals with decades of combined experience building, operating, and investing in online dating platforms and services for the singles economy.
Our team has built and scaled dating businesses from startup to tens of millions in annual revenue. We've navigated the regulatory shifts, the platform wars, the trust and safety crises, and the M&A cycles that have shaped this industry over the past 30 years.
We started this publication because we believe the dating industry deserves better coverage than it currently gets. Too much of the existing trade media is compromised — dependent on the same companies it covers for conference sponsorships, advertising revenue, and access. That creates an environment where critical reporting takes a back seat to press release rewrites and sponsored content dressed up as editorial.
We have no such conflicts. We don't run industry conferences. We don't sell sponsorships to the companies we write about. Our editorial independence isn't a marketing line — it's the founding principle of this publication.
When we write that a product launch is underwhelming, or that a company's earnings tell a different story to its press release, or that a regulatory development will hurt specific players, we can say that without worrying about losing a sponsor.
That independence is what makes our coverage worth reading.