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I met Frind several years ago at a party he put on at Affiliate Summit with some others. We ended up chatting for a bit and his perspective on things was quite fascinating.

This was also just after he'd established the PoF ads platform and had hired several people to work on it. I've not looked at PoF since 2013 and have been curious how it has held up vs. apps like Tinder.

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I have dabbled in their self serve platform some, it is just so slow. But I dig the company and their approach.

Does tinder have much marketshare? I should do my research :(

Tinder has around 40m profiles. PoF has around 90m. Tinder interaction is much more superficial than PoF, of course, due to the nature of each platform and the amount of user information captured by each. Tinder has far more "swipes" (how they measure activity) than PoF has page views (how all websites measure activity) - to the point that Tinder has about a billion swipes per day and PoF has around 2 billion page views per month - also by their nature different measurements.

Isn't Tinder just far better poised to capture future dating traffic seeing its dominance on mobile? I can't see a long-term future for web based dating platforms. PoF's mobile audience is tiny compared to Tinder

Tried Tinder as an experiment. Hated it. I would prefer to base my approach to online dating on personality rather than a single profile picture. The entire Tinder experience is incredibly superficial and facilitates hookups rather than actually meeting interesting people.

I see web-based dating platforms as something that will always have a userbase.

Tinder is more for hooking up than dating, which is the big difference between the two.

Not sure if you have updated info but according to his blog he was at 2 billion page views per WEEK back in 2012.

https://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/

Yeah Tinder has a huge market share. I'd guess at least ten times more than PoF. Maybe 100. That's in the UK though, I'd guess it varies a lot geographically.

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