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