Comments on: Breaking: Meetic Finds A Soulmate, Acquires Match.com’s European Operations

By: Free vs Not

Free vs Not — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:09:22 +0000

[...] 15M members worldwide (one third of Meetic…), and eHarmony claims 20M members… If you remember well, Meetic even bought out Match.com European [...]

By: Respuestas distintas a la crisis en el sector del online dating « Hocus Pocus

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:33:28 +0000

[...] de crecer asumiendo menos riesgos y reducir gastos.En el sector de la búsqueda de pareja online también está ocurriendo, la empresa europea meetic.es ha comprado la parte de las operaciones europeas de match.com. No [...]

By: Dave Evans

Dave Evans — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:29:20 +0000

Thanks Waldo, if you just want to rely on TC for your information thats fine.

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Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:25:15 +0000

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By: Instant Downloadz » More Consolidation In Europe: GoAdv To Acquire LeGuide.com For €50 Million

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:30:15 +0000

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By: More Consolidation In Europe: GoAdv To Acquire LeGuide.com For €50 Million

More Consolidation In Europe: GoAdv To Acquire LeGuide.com For €50 Million — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:08:31 +0000

[...] Meetic buying the European operations of Match.com last week, here’s another sign the online media landscape in Europe is changing in the face [...]

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:53:46 +0000

I believe Match was already losing market share in Europe. They lost the touch with consumers in some of the European countries, possibly due to cultural and language differences.

Does anybody have the correct number for the number of users? It is interesting to see what costs and profit per member are.

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By: joe

joe — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 22:59:14 +0000

I wonder if facebook or other social networks will effect the dating sites in EU as they have in the United States.

By: Match y Meetic se enamoran | ALSD.es

Match y Meetic se enamoran | ALSD.es — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:13:30 +0000

[...] conocerse la noticia de la compra de las actividades europeas de Match por parte de Meetic, mi amiguete Adrian Elliot indicaba, con acierto: “Me pregunto si los servicios de pago [...]

By: washer

washer — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 06:18:48 +0000

Ahhhh…..dating & sex sell, even in a down economy.

Seriously, it’s good to see businesses (and M&A activity) chugging along.

By: Mike James

Mike James — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:34:52 +0000

The Ecomomic climate doesnt seem to have stopped aquisitions from happening, check this out:

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By: Ross Williams - WhiteLabelDating.com

Ross Williams - WhiteLabelDating.com — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:47:35 +0000

Well that’s cleared up the European online dating scene – think we’ll be filling the gap that will be left by this development

Strangely I always saw it happening the other way, that Match would take over DatingDirect in the UK and leave Meetic to have the other European countries.

I have huge respect for the Match UK team who have driven the business so well – at the same time we’ve seen DatingDirect melt away after losing a lot of momentum.

It would be crazy if the guys from DatingDirect took over the running of Match in the UK.

Seems to be very strange logic.

By: Robin Wauters

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:32:59 +0000

I don’t have any insight in their number of registered users, but I consider Le Monde to be a credible source.

By: Yves Bennaim

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:21:18 +0000

“and currently counts over 696,400 registered users.”

Didn’t this number seem a little bit wrong when you where typing it?

By: Greg S.

Greg S. — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:13:04 +0000

I’ve read Meetic’s whole 2006 financial report a week ago, and I can tell you that back in 2006 they had EUR 80m in sales, and EUR 17,4m in earnings before interest, taxes, and depreciations.

They also had 420 00 registered users, 15% monthly churn rate, and they were spending an average 35 euros in order to acquire a new user.

So the 2008 figures are pretty consistent with 2006, given the expected growth rate

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:59:24 +0000

the number is wrong.. the real numbr is upwards of 40 million. Meetic white label their product in Europe. For example France Telecom Orange portal has a dating site. The backend is meetic but the branding is Orange.

By: Imdat

Imdat — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:58:42 +0000

Actually, Meetic made EUR 133.7m in revenues in 2008 (s. http://www.bour...97d49536e8c86ea), which at current rate is about USD 168.5m.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:58:00 +0000

….in 2008 and currently counts over 696,400 registered users.

That number is wrong by a massive magnitude. Please check your numbers.

By: JerrytheSpike

JerrytheSpike — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:57:46 +0000

It was actually MATCH.COM who beated Meetic on European market. In 2007 Mark from Meetic announced “war” and said whi ever wins over UK will win. Match.com did it and now they are being bought (so it’s other way round, If you can’t beat them, buy them)

By: Meetic compra las operaciones europeas de Match.com

Meetic compra las operaciones europeas de Match.com — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:49:40 +0000

[...] el sitio de dating, ha anunciado la compra de las operaciones europeas de Match.com, otra empresa de dating propiedad de [...]

By: ghunda

ghunda — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:14:00 +0000

K.I.S.S.

By: Neil Bryant

Neil Bryant — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:13:02 +0000

Greg, I think you are right. Meetic has a substantially lower ARU than suggested. It spends a LOT on advertising – can be seen by the low Page Views on alexa.

Still, on the paid side of things, Meetic is tearing up Europe, very little real competition in France and UK, not sure about Germany and Spain.

Is Plenty of Fish still doing good business??

By: Dating

Dating — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:15:50 +0000

I believe match can not compete with meetic in europe area.

By: Fiz

Fiz — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:03:14 +0000

IMHO, websites like these would be much better if they offer users the ability to specify their own custom fields and make those fields not only structurally browsable but searchable as well.

Say a user wants to find a Capricorn male who graduated from Xyz University, is currrently a CTO at Xyz Holdings, Inc, has two daughters, speaks English and Italian, and whose favorite actor is Tom Hanks.

Existing sites that rely on finite set of fields make it impossible for users to specify their own field of interest. What if a user wants to specify their ‘Favorite [ fill in the blank ]? There is an infinite possibility on what that blank is.

Here’s a link to an example of how we solve that problem:

http://tinyurl.com/aw6vm7