Podcasts by The GDI Podcast
Global Dating Insights (GDI) is the leading source of news, information and analysis for the online dating industry. The site serves a highly engaged trade audience of over 30,000 unique monthly visitors, and is read in over 100 countries. Since launching in 2013, we have published over 5,000 stories.
Our articles and interviews provide executives and professionals worldwide with up-to-the-minute, authoritative dating sector coverage. We pride ourselves on being the go-to publication when a story breaks.
Our reports and analyses give readers a detailed look into one aspect of the dating industry. The GDI Power Book, released on Valentine’s Day, lists the influencers, start-ups and movers that have impacted the market over the course of the year.
Our conferences and events bring together some of the biggest names in dating for conversations, presentations and networking opportunities. Speakers from Zoosk, Tinder, Facebook, eharmony, Microsoft and The University of Oxford have all featured in recent years.
We hold ourselves to the highest standards of journalistic integrity. Global Dating Insights is monetised by a) content partners, b) ticket sales, c) sponsorship of events, and d) sponsorship of reports. Our sponsors benefit from brand awareness, and do not receive any additional editorial support.
Global Dating Insights is an independent publication run by a small team of professional journalists.
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Vegan and vegetarian dating in 2022 with Veggly from 2022-02-04T14:58:19
Today's episode of the GDI Podcast sees us join Veggly, the leading vegan and vegetarian dating platform. We're joined by their founder Alex Felipelli, to talk about how vegan and vegetarian dating...
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A Changing Of The Guard - Introducing The New GDI Editor from 2021-11-24T07:00:19
A very special episode of The GDI Podcast, introducing Luke Smith as the new editor of Global Dating Insights. In this episode we discuss what's next for our departing editor, Dom Whitlock, what's ...
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VR Platform ‘Planet Theta’ Represents The Future Of Dating from 2021-11-03T07:00:14
Over the past two years, the popularity of virtual and video dating has grown exponentially, with the implication of the COVID-19 as the main catalyst.
While singles were previously unsure...
The Sauce Makes 'Dating Less Dry' With Video Profiles from 2021-10-27T07:00:24
The Sauce is a UK-based dating app that only allows singles to add video clips to their profiles, helping them express themselves and find better quality matches.
Originally named ‘Qemistr...
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, In Association With Women In Dating from 2021-10-05T16:48:29
Today’s special episode of The GDI Podcast features three female leaders from the online dating and social networking spaces. They came together to discuss the importance of diversity, equity and i...
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Asia Innovations Group CEO Talks Virtual Dating and Targeting Emerging Markets from 2021-09-08T07:00:27
Asia Innovations Group (AIG) was formed in 2013 by a team of technology experts from major companies including Google and Tencent.
It operates a quality portfolio of dating, social and ent...
German Dating Agency LemonSwan Looks After ‘What Women Want’ from 2021-08-25T13:53:46
LemonSwan is an early stage dating and matchmaking agency based in Germany, designed to help singles find serious, long-term relationships.
It was founded by Arne Kahlke, a former CEO of P...
POM Connects Singles Using Their Favourite Songs and Artists from 2021-08-11T06:00:15
POM is a brand new dating app from London that uses music streaming data to match singles with a strong emotional compatibility.
Standing for ‘The Power Of Music’, POM doesn’t simply conne...
Feeld’s New CEO Ana Kirova Talks Sex Positivity and Polyamory from 2021-08-04T07:00:14
While the stigma around online dating has receded substantially over the past few years, there is still a lot of negative connotations associated with sex positive and polyamorous platforms.
Millionaire Dating App Luxy’s New Automatic Matching Algorithm from 2021-07-28T06:00:11
Luxy is colloquially known as a dating platform for millionaires, due to its strict verification process and desire to attract only the highest-quality singles. However, these values have seen the ...
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Relationship App Coupleness Inspires Communication Between Partners from 2021-07-01T08:46:13
Coupleness is a Swedish startup relationship platform that helps existing couples invest in their relationship and improve the way they communicate with each other.
Long-term relationships...
CitySwoon Begins Hosting Offline Dating Events Again After COVID-19 from 2021-06-23T07:24:28
A few years ago, CitySwoon started to develop its own technology to host speed dating and singles events in a virtual capacity. This decision turned out to be more than beneficial in March 2020, wh...
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Female Founders Discuss Gender Equality in Dating Industry from 2021-06-01T20:17:43
Like the majority of technology industries, the online dating industry is largely dominated by male executives, professionals and investors. It can reasonably count itself as more gender diverse th...
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Female Founders Discuss How They’ve Transformed The Dating Industry, Sponsored by RealMe! from 2021-06-01T20:17:43
The GDI Podcast: Female Founders Discuss How They’ve Transformed The Dating Industry, Sponsored by RealMe!
Like the majority of technology industries, the online dating industry is largel...
So Syncd’s Sister Founders Discuss Personality Dating and Funding Round from 2021-05-05T13:16:02
So Syncd is a London-based startup dating app that matches singles using the renowned ‘Myers-Briggs’ personality types. New members take a five-minute questionnaire to find out which personality ca...
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Industry Experts Discuss Survey Results and Online Dating User Safety from 2021-04-27T21:37:22
This special episode of The GDI Podcast welcomes three expert guests to talk about two of the biggest issues in the online dating industry: user safety and privacy.
As the world ground to ...
The Key Points From ExoClick’s Ultimate Guide to Dating from 2021-04-22T16:20:56
ExoClick is a leading online traffic network that helps advertisers and publishers to convert and monetize their content. It has a particularly large footprint in the online dating industry, sendin...
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Match Group VP Discusses ‘Upward’, The New Dating App For Christians from 2021-04-13T12:38:54
While the majority of Match Group’s mainstream media attention goes to its biggest brands in Tinder, Hinge and Match, the umbrella company also offers a variety of more focused apps targeted at spe...
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SALT is the Dating App Helping Christians Find Godly Relationships from 2021-03-30T14:09:18
SALT is a Christian dating app that uses modern technology to help singles find a long-term relationship with someone who shares their faith.
It was inspired by the variety of already avai...
Former Plenty Of Fish VP Launches Snack, The Dating App Inspired By TikTok from 2021-03-23T17:58:33
Kim Kaplan was one of the very first employees at Plenty Of Fish in 2009. Over the next ten years she helped turn the dating platform into the success that it is today, a place for millions of youn...
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Spark Networks VP of Marketing Explains How Pandemic Affected Senior Daters from 2021-03-09T16:04:50
Spark Networks is one of the online dating industry’s biggest publicly-traded companies and it specialises in serious platforms that are committed to forming long-term relationships.
Along...
Former Raya Engineer Launches Kippo, The Dating App For Gamers from 2021-03-02T12:42:27
David Park spent two years as a member of Raya’s early engineering team and helped the small outfit create one of the industry’s most exclusive platforms.
Dubbed by many as the ‘Tinder For...
Jigsaw CEO Discusses Funding Round and Future International Expansion from 2021-02-23T18:00:44
Jigsaw was created by two university friends back in 2016 who were fed up with the dating platforms available to them at the time. This is a story that is behind a lot of the new apps on the market...
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Elate Tackles Ghosting by Encouraging Accountability and Honesty from 2021-02-16T17:38:29
Elate is a new startup that is designed for the slow dating trend. Singles are only allowed to talk to three different people at any given time, which prevents low quality conversations from contin...
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LOVOO’s New CEO on First Few Months and Future Goals from 2021-02-09T13:11:47
LOVOO is The Meet Group’s leading subsidiary in Europe and, like the rest of the portfolio, offers members a hybrid dating and live streaming experience.
The company reinvigorated its exec...
Isodate Founder Discusses New Virtual Speed Dating Platform from 2021-02-03T07:00:18
Isodate is a speed dating platform that allows singles to replicate the excitement of meeting new people in an organic way from the comfort and safety of their home. It was launched in March at the...
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Cobble is the Genre-Defining App Helping Couples Find New Date Locations from 2020-12-01T16:16:53
Cobble is creating its own space in the online dating industry. The app works for friends, first time matches and long-term relationships alike, and helps couples find unique date venues in their l...
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The Round CEO Fights Endless Swiping With 10-Minute Dating App from 2020-11-25T06:00:22
It may not seem like 2020 would be the best year to launch a dating app that aims to get people meeting face-to-face as soon as possible. However, the team behind The Round confronted the challenge...
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Exploring Inner Circle’s Rebrand With Its First Chief Marketing Officer from 2020-10-21T07:14:46
Inner Circle appointed Sanneke Boesveldt as its first ever Chief Marketing Officer in February. It came at a time when the dating app was expanding its marketing, communications and PR departments ...
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Positive Plus One Helps HIV Singles Feel More Comfortable When Dating from 2020-10-06T07:00:17
It’s often difficult to navigate the world of online dating for singles who are suffering from HIV, for example knowing when is the best time to reveal their condition to their matches.
Ch...
FTI Consulting and RealMe Research Dating’s ‘New Normal’ from 2020-09-30T08:47:20
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Talking With the New Management Team of ParshipMeet Group from 2020-09-22T13:48:52
At the beginning of the month, ProSiebenSat.1 Media officially completed its takeover of The Meet Group, in a deal which valued the dating and live streaming outfit at $500 million.
The G...
HILY and TAIMI Co-founder Discusses Exponential Growth from 2020-09-01T12:40:28
HILY and TAIMI are two products that have taken the online dating industry by storm, and have significantly grown in popularity since they were both released at the beginning of 2017.
Sho...
Find Out More About Dating Group’s $50 Million CVC Fund from 2020-08-12T08:16:51
At the beginning of March, Dating Group announced a brand new $50 million corporate VC fund to invest in some of the most promising startups.
The online dating arm of Social Discovery Vent...
Co-founder Explains How UrSafe Keeps Daters Safe Once They Move Offline from 2020-08-04T05:00:06
UrSafe is a personal safety app that can give daters and their families peace of mind when they’re out meeting someone for the first time.
It’s unique arsenal of features, such as fake pho...
Adam4Adam’s COO Discusses Campaign Combating Sexual Racism from 2020-07-28T05:00:15
Adam4Adam was first launched in 2003, making it one of the oldest LGBTQ dating services in the industry.
It is also proud of its diversity, as company data shows more than half of the memb...
RealMe’s Head of Dating Romance Fraud Protection from 2020-07-21T10:10:37
This week’s episode of The GDI Podcast features a conversation with Neil Davis, the Head of Dating at RealMe.
As the sponsor of The GDI Podcast, RealMe is committed to helping the online d...
Dating Entrepreneur David Minns Discusses Portfolio of Niche Products from 2020-07-14T06:00:14
The online dating space is becoming more and more saturated with every new product release and entrepreneurs need to be increasingly innovative in order to stand out.
David Minns is an ind...
Learning More About the New HubStars and Dig Partnership from 2020-07-07T05:00:21
At the end of June, HubStars announced that Dig would be its first new partner as a result of the ‘Million Dollar Dating Project’.
The leading SaaS company will assist the ‘Dating App for ...
Meet the Co-founder of Thursday, the Dating App That Works Once a Week from 2020-06-23T06:00:02
Meet the Co-founder of Thursday, the Dating App That Works Once a Week
Honeypot was a dating app that went viral in London last summer, following a thrifty guerilla marketing campaign whic...
appMi Founder Explores Online Dating and Influencer Marketing from 2020-06-16T12:18:25
This week’s episode features an interview with Stuart Murgatroyd, the founder of a brand new white label dating service. appMi works with a wide range of celebrities, reality television stars and s...
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How Plenty Of Fish LIVE! Is Helping Lockdown Connections from 2020-06-09T10:54:22
Plenty Of Fish was the first Match Group subsidiary to launch its own live video feature. The update had been in the works for a number of months, but the release date was quickly brought forward t...
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World Telemedia MD Discusses Dating Industry History from 2020-06-02T03:00:17
World Telemedia is one of the biggest annual conferences dedicated to mobile, billing and marketing.
The event is due to take place in Marbella this October and is an ideal place for aspi...
Perry Street Software COO on LGBTQ Safety and Jack’d Acquisition from 2020-05-26T11:38:41
Perry Street Software is the holding company for two of the industry’s leading gay dating offerings. It founded SCRUFF in 2010 and then became the largest LGBTQ-owned and operated technology compan...
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Once CEO Explains Reactive Roll Out of Live Video Calls from 2020-05-19T08:59:02
Once Dating Group reacted quickly to the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown measures by introducing a live video call feature. The update was created and launched on Once in just a couple of weeks, ...
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RealMe Founder Discusses Importance of User Safety and Trust from 2020-05-12T04:00:34
This episode features a discussion with Jeff Tinsley, the founder and CEO of RealMe.
As the new sponsor of The GDI Podcast, RealMe is committed to helping the online dating industry become...
White Label Dating CEO Talks Working From Home Productively from 2020-05-06T10:07:29
White Label Dating is one of the biggest white label providers in Europe, helping affiliates, businesses and media companies effortlessly create their own online dating platforms.
First la...
New Startup S’More is Encouraging Daters to Slow Down from 2020-04-28T09:19:34
New Startup S’More is Encouraging Daters to Slow Down
Adam Cohen Aslatei is an experienced member of the online dating industry, having previously worked with brands such as The Meet Group...
The Meet Group’s CEO Talks Video Dating Rise in Global Lockdown from 2020-04-21T09:13:34
The Meet Group is one of the biggest publicly-traded online dating companies in the industry, boasting a portfolio that includes MeetMe, Skout, Tagged and LOVOO.
The Pennsylvania-based bus...
Madeleine Mason Roantree Discusses Relationship Psychology from 2020-04-07T09:52:28
Madeleine Mason Roantree is one of the UK’s leading psychologists that specialises in dating and relationships. She currently works as the Director of Relationship Psychology Services at the Vida C...
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Protecting Daters’ Digital Identities With the CMO of Yoti from 2020-03-31T14:09:35
Yoti is one of the world’s leading digital identity companies, which securely stores people’s personal and legal information inside their smartphones. It works alongside a number of dating and soci...
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The Importance of Online Dating Domain Security With Safenames from 2020-03-24T10:30:38
Having the perfect domain name can ensure a company gets optimal visibility, but what happens when they get compromised? Safenames is dedicated to working closely with all of its clients to help th...
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Exploring Naked Dating With BARE Co-founder from 2020-03-17T14:04:03
BARE caused minor controversy when the news of its inception first hit mainstream media. The dating app that promotes full frontal nudity appears to be shallow and objective on the surface, but the...
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Relationship AI Helps Singles Track Activity Across Multiple Apps from 2020-03-10T11:52:48
As online dating becomes more and more popular it is beginning to have a detrimental impact on millennial singles. The average dater has upwards of three apps on their phone at any point, and with ...
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The Rise of Faith-Based Dating With Christian Connection Founder from 2020-03-02T22:26:10
Almost 60% of the UK’s population identifies as a follower of Christianity and for many singles, religion is the most important factor when it comes to looking for a romantic partner. Created in 19...
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Africlick Founder Discusses Online Dating For African-Carribean Singles from 2020-02-25T11:13:26
Africlick is a startup social app that is currently in beta testing. It is targeted at professional singles of African and Carribean descent, and aims to empower them to connect in a fun, safe and ...
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Covering the Industry’s Biggest Trends With Expert Mark Brooks from 2020-02-19T09:30:02
Mark Brooks is one of the online dating industry’s leading experts with almost two decades of experience under his belt. He’s worked with companies like Plenty of Fish and Social Discovery Ventures...
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Badoo’s UK Brand Marketing Director Outlines ‘Date Honestly’ Campaign from 2020-02-11T07:54:40
With more than 450 million users, Badoo runs one of the world's biggest online dating communities. Based in London, the app is part of the newly-formed MagicLab umbrella which is also responsible f...
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Muzmatch Founder Discusses Modern Dating For Muslims from 2020-02-03T20:57:02
Muzmatch is a relationship-focused app that strives to help millennial Muslims find their long-term partners. It has all the benefits of modern dating apps and allows singles to take their dating l...
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Catching Up With GDI Founder Simon Corbett from 2020-01-28T07:37:42
We have a special episode to kick off series two of The GDI Podcast. Today, Global Dating Insights founder Simon Corbett opens up about his background in online dating and how the field can continu...
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The Inner Circle’s CEO Talks Popular Offline Dating Events from 2020-01-21T07:36:50
A growing number of online dating platforms are hosting real-life events to add an extra dimension to the service and encourage their members to start a new relationship in a more traditional setti...
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Messaging Platform Sendbird Supports Industry’s Biggest Apps from 2020-01-14T13:28:50
Sendbird is a messaging platform that provides fully customisable chat functionalities for mobile apps and websites. It has previously worked with some of the biggest global dating apps, including ...
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Google Gives Helicopter Perspective on Dating Industry from 2020-01-07T05:00:43
Google is a brand that is synonymous with the internet and being online. The multinational technology company is obviously most well-known for its search engine, cloud computing software, and hardw...
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Spectrum’s CEO Talks Stopping Toxicity on Dating Apps from 2019-12-17T07:45:52
Spectrum Labs is helping online businesses from a variety of industries keep their extensive community of members safe from online harms. It specialises in assisting social media platforms, online ...
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Say Allo Wants To Be First Choice For Intelligent Dating from 2019-12-10T08:01:52
Say Allo is a new relationship discovery app that matches users in a scientific and intelligent fashion. Created in collaboration with Dr Brian Shaw, a pioneer of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, the p...
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Prelinker’s CEO Explains Global Affiliate Dating Offers from 2019-12-02T21:17:52
Prelinker is one of the leaders for affiliate marketing in the online dating industry. Since 2001, it has been offering advanced white label solutions, data intelligence and smartlink technology to...
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Talking To The Head Of The Online Dating Industry’s Regulators from 2019-11-25T21:33:30
The Online Dating Association is the industry’s regulatory body that works to make sure the community of brands has a strong and united voice when dealing with government representatives and the me...
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MagicLab VP Discusses Plans For Portfolio Expansion from 2019-11-19T09:21:08
MagicLab is the recently-formed umbrella that contains four of the leading dating platforms in each of their respective niches. Currently overseeing Bumble, Badoo, Chappy and Lumen, MagicLab is in ...
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HubStars Owner on Benefits of White Label Solutions from 2019-11-12T12:06:17
HubStars is one of the leading platforms that provides brands, affiliates and businesses with bespoke white label dating solutions. It also offers a number of high quality pre-made dating websites ...
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CLiKD - London’s Personality-Driven Dating App from 2019-11-04T22:28:42
CLiKD is the London-based dating app that helps singles make real connections with people who share their beliefs, passions and interests. Users set three multiple-choice questions about their pers...
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Protecting the Online Dating Industry With Scamalytics from 2019-10-28T21:41:56
Romance fraud is unfortunately one of the biggest issues facing the online dating industry at the moment and it doesn’t seem to be going away anytime soon. Every year thousands of vulnerable single...
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Dig CEO Explains the Importance of Dogs in Modern Dating from 2019-10-21T19:42:11
Dig is the dating app for dog lovers that has been taking the USA by storm ever since it was first released in 2018. CEO Leigh Isaacson founded the startup when her sister, and company CCO, Casey b...
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Meet WhiteLabelDating’s Head of Account Management from 2019-10-14T22:27:38
WhiteLabelDating.com is one of the biggest white label providers in Europe and helps affiliates, businesses and media companies effortlessly create their own online dating platforms. First launched...
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Toffee CEO Discusses App’s Eventful History from 2019-10-08T21:21:42
Dubbed the “Tinder for Toffs”, Toffee became a viral sensation when it was first released back in early 2018. The dating app for privately educated singles caused controversy and was covered by cou...
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